When you drive down the country roads, do you stop to pick the wildflowers or do you pass them by?

When my children where young, I used to stop and let them run through the wild flowers, look at them, smell them, and learn the different kinds of flowers. I don't anymore and with the grands I should, that would be fun memories. I have been noticing them along the highway, new colors this year.

I really had to laugh when I read your question. Who can afford

to drive out of town to go down a country road? Years ago

we liked to take pictures of old barns and other out buildings.

But that was well before the gas started hiking. Now we do

well to run errands and watch our gas go down. So when my

husband makes a trip, it's usually to run more than one errand.

When we did take a drive, we would never stop to pick

flowers. Usually the roads were two laned, and there were

alot of curves. So that could be a wrong move. Also you

wouldn't want to get caught picking flowers on private land.

Some farmers grow them right up to the highway from their

driveways. Anymore, you really have to watch that you don't

tresspass and get a load of buckshot where you don't want it.

Guilty as charged or I should say, was guilty as charged. I use to pick them IF I was the passenger, and only when I saw a real pretty one and a bunch of them there.

Then I got to thinking, now if every body did this, there wouldn't be all these pretty flowers along the roads to see. So I stopped doing that after my last road trip. Now I go to the store and buy the package of wild flower seeds and plant them.

Why would anyone pick wildflowers when their beauty is in their abundance and their ability to change a rather plain landscape into a majestic scene ? Most of our wildflowers in Texas wilt so fast after they are picked that you end up very quickly with any thing but a bouquet.

i can't resist picking flowers .

(never the last ones ,only if there are plenty.)

it reminds me of childhood ,when i knew the secret places where they grew ,especially violets ,and the connection with nature ,the joy and innocence , is with me again for a little while .

when taking elderly people in wheel chairs for walks ,picking 1or 2 flowers hanging over the fence ,gives them so much pleasure ,and they proudly put them in a vase to enjoy longer .

i say long live (responsible) flower picking !!!

I look and take it all in for spiritual purposes. I would not think of picking wildflowers or any flower from an abandonned garden that I did not own.

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In England, you would be advised not to pick wild flowers, the majority of them are under a protection order which prohibits people from picking them.

I love stopping, walking amongst them and enjoying the moment. I have been known to pluck a flower or two if I ahve my dragon with me...he does love the the daisies and rose petals. BUt he's only a baby dragon and doesn't eat much.

I pass them by because so many of them are protected in my state and it's against the law to pick them.

Also, in areas where wildflowers would be growing, there would be so many chiggers and ticks that it probably would end up being an unpleasant experience to pick them!