Flowers and why I'll never be a royal

Queen Elizabeth’s favorite flower is the primrose.
Princess Margaret was fond of orchids (and vodka and cigarettes).
Princess Diana’s favorites? Forget-Me-Nots.
Princess Catherine, Will’s wife, favors lily of the valley.
Meghan’s fave – peonies.

All of these are lovely. Really.
Me? I’m partial to dandelions, Queen Anne’s Lace, lilacs, purple pom poms, pussywillows, sunflowers, goldenrod, free-range daisies, black eyed Susans and wildflowers whose names I’ll never remember.

Yup, my floral tastes are firmly in the peasant class.

The earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A weed is but an unloved flower.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
~ Colette

I must have flowers, always, and always.
~ Claude Monet

One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.
~ John Mark Green

Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.
~ Milton Rokeach, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study 

Researches of behavioural science have shown that the presentation of flowers to someone almost always guarantees a Duchenne smile - a facial expression of genuine pleasure.
~ Constance Kirker, Edible Flowers: A Global History 
 
What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!
~ Roland R Kemler

Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the water, the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.
~ Claude Monet

I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh