By usefulness: Yarrow, it’s an incredibly useful plant. Helps with bleeding, heartburn, indigestion.

By looks: Bird of Paradise Flower, lives quite a long time when cut from the plant.

Scariest: Poison Hemlock, it’s everywhere. And you wouldn’t think much of it.

Even scarier: Giant Hogweed. It’s like Poison Hemlock, but apocalyptic in size.

Best smelling: Wax Flower

Least favorites Limonium, it smells like cat piss. Roses due to thorns, plus if you don’t get them in water ASAP they tend to get air bubbles in the stem that makes the plant die faster. Gebera Daisies; they have a very weak stem. 2inch Carnations, because they break at the nodes

I used to be a florist and my hobbies involve foraging.

Roses, but only the heirloom types that have a scent. Their shapes and colors vary widely, but they are so satisfying to my soul, I’d fill up acres with them if we didn’t need to raise food. Bit finicky to grow, bit of a challenge to maintain them.

Venus fly traps because they’re one of the only flowers that will fight you

Smell-wise, night blooming jasmine. Effortless beauty, rain lilies and the black eyed susans. Pollinator attracting, I don’t know what it’s called but there is a lanky bush in my backyard with flowers like morning glories and when it blooms, it is a bee club, absolutely stuffed full of bees. So many bees come to that one plant every year late summer.

Dandelion. F**k yeah, concrete!