When: Now until 11:59 PM March 24th 

Let's welcome in springtime by sharing beautiful flowers! To play, find a flower online that represents spring to you and share a direct link to the photo as a reply to this post to receive your choice of 1000 points on an animal or 1 mill HPD.  For an extra 500 points or 500k HPD, write a sentence or two telling us why you chose that flower.

*If you are part of a mascot team, only one of you may apply points from this activity to your mascot entry*

Enjoy!

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/beautiful-sunflower-with-monarch-butterfly-trina-ansel.jpg

I chose the sunflower for 2 reasons: it's my all time favorite flower and I feel like it embodies the feeling of spring so perfectly.

Points to Ember: https://horsephenomena.com/dogs.php?id=190649

”Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.” -Colleen Hoover

https://lovflowers.co.uk/blogs/news/lilac

The lilac has always represented spring to me; We used to have a lilac bush in the front yard of my childhood home, and I remember one time after a huge rainstorm the night before, the morning air was perfumed with the lilac's sweet scent, like it had been scrubbed with bar of soap. It was such a pleasant morning, and I love the scent of lilacs. 

HPD please and thank you!

https://i.imgur.com/aRo8kK3.jpg

I chose this one simply because it is my favorite color haha I'm a simple mind, I know.

I thought about doing a lilac because I have a huge lilac bush growing on my front deck, but Eyre already used the lilac and I wanted to be different.

HPD please

 https://i.postimg.cc/k46TGrg6/SUNFLOWER.jpg

I chose a sunflower, because it's my favourite flower and I feel like the blue sky and the yellow really make it feel like spring. 

HPD please and thank you! :)

https://imgur.com/a/zHn50TS
 I chose daffodils because they are one of the first flowers to appear in the spring around here. The vibrant colours on a warm day really help to improve my mood/be more hopeful. 

HPD please 

I chose the waratah because they are such a unique and fascinating flower. They are super uncommon and so everytime I see one, I get a little spark of joy.
https://horsephenomena.com/dogs.php?id=160124

https://dengarden.com/.image/c_fill,g_faces:center/MTk1NzkyNTI3OTgxMzU3MDUw/the-many-looks-and-classifications-of-tulips.jpg

Tulips are definitely the flower that represents spring for me. My mom has dozens of them and they are the first flowers in her garden that start to pop out at the first sign of warm weather - usually to get buried by another foot of snow, as we tend to get hit with a lot of "fool's spring" days before real spring begins around the end of April, lol. They are hearty though, and always make it through to blossom when the snow finally ends!

Points to https://horsephenomena.com/dogs.php?id=121052 please!

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7ySBA7vkmzSUSzz4mNWifg.jpg

I picked the passion flower! There's a local garden here that has some, and growing up my family would visit every spring. This was always my favorite!

Points here please: https://horsephenomena.com/horses.php?id=446319

https://gardening.usask.ca/articles-and-lists/articles-plant-descriptions/native-plants/prairie-crocus.php

https://i.imgur.com/qldTOW2.jpg (taken on my ride in April in 2021) (the same time frame as the picture in the photo contest)

I chose the Prairie Crocus .  they are native to Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.  They are the first signs that spring is finally here in. They grow only where natural prairie still exist.  along river banks and any place that has natural grassland. they are a hardy flower and can withstand cold wind and snow in the early spring but can't be dug up and transplanted as they would die. 

all points to Saoirse please https://horsephenomena.com/dogs.php?id=191500

https://www.marthastewart.com/thmb/cokuVuj3OgwpUgdLXlyRln2vCKo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ms-winter-annuals-snapdragons-ac8db79bdbe7440dafbcd3732d4d5cb2.jpg

Snapdragons! I chose these because it was my grandma's favorite. You can pinch the sides of the flower and the petals will move apart which makes it look like a dragon opening its mouth. It doesn't hurt the plant if you do it gently.

Points: https://horsephenomena.com/dogs.php?id=189709

https://www.almanac.com/sites/default/files/image_nodes/hyacinths-marcin_jucha_ss.jpg

Hyacinths! My grandmother would buy them every spring as soon as they were available and we'd have so many in the house that it just smelled of the flower! Sadly now I can only enjoy their smell in stores because I have cats and it's a toxic plant to them. T_T

HPD please!

I'm going to go with bluebells, because they can turn huge areas of land...welll...blue. 

https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/bluebell-season-uk

Points to https://horsephenomena.com/dogs.php?id=192888 plz!

Lilacs have always been my favorite! At my house growing up we had a Lilac "tree" it was huge right besides the stairs going up into the house. When it was in bloom it attracted so many bees you had to make a mad dash past it or potentially get stung haha! It smelled so beautiful and was just a comfort of being home kinda feeling.

Points to Ale (#402991) please! :D