looking good!

My favorite has to be stargazer lillies!

Oh, congrats! I know just what you mean -- I came home late last night in a foul mood and the miniature rose plants I had ordered from the nursery were waiting on the porch. Though I can take much less credit for that than your amazing orchid-nursing powers (I can never get the damn things to live). But still, can't wait to plant them. And OT, roses are definitely my favorite. Totally cliche, but true.

That flower looks just like a Georgia O'Keefe painting...

Oh, and I'm not sure if I have a favorite flower -they're all so nice. I guess birds of paradise are pretty rad though, as are orchids.

I love a lot of plants, but for favorite ever, I have to go with lilacs.

Lilies...big, colorful, fragrant ones.

I think it's obvious that I like lilies, isn't it?

Orchids are cool, too.

Gongrats Jessica! Three times I have tried to grow an orchid, but I always manage to kill it in the end. My most recent had the most beautiful purple blooms. I named it Edwardo.

My favorite flower is the jasmine flower, for which I was named. I'm also quite fond of honeysuckle, which is in the same family.

Lavender. My tiny front yard is choked with it.

Orchids, irises, and morning glories.

Cool! The Orchids are one of my favorite bands. ;-)

As for flowers, I love love love Gerbera daisies. Bold, bright, big and so so MOD. I wish I could afford to have them bursting from every corner of my place year round.

As for titillating the olfactories, you cannot beat the smell of a Magnolia tree. Hot damn. I wish we had them up here, and I also wish they came in mini plant form! Sweet sweet honey smell.

Gorgeous orchid, and congrats to you, Jessica!

Favorite flower? Tulips, hands down.

oh, pretty, pretty orchid! how i wish i wasn't the grim reaper of all house plants!
on another note, my potted English Rose(Tamora) is blooming already!i have a developing fetish for English roses(especially the apricot varieties), they're not nearly as fussy and picky as regular Tea roses...and i've managed not to kill the thing in three years, that alone should be a statement for it's hardiness! other than roses, i LOVE tulips and daffodils, and chrysanthemums of all varieties.

I have a strong affinity for linden trees. The cover themselves with little yellow flowers every spring.

I love plants. In terms of flowers, I really like bearded irises, tiger/Michigan lilies, and this flower that I can't remember the name of because I took to calling them "brain flowers" when I was a child (they're native to Hawaii, I think, and when they start to bloom, they sort of look like brain coral). I'm also really fond of weeping willows and ferns.

Favorite to look at: Tiger Lilies

Favorites to smell: Lilacs, Lily of the Valley, Jasmine, and English Roses.

Totally cliche, but I like pink roses. Congrats, Jessica, on your green thumb!

Lilacs, absolutely.

snap dragons & peonies!

Regular old white daisies are my favorite. So simple and sweet and yet so cheerful.

the crocus - the first wildflower to poke through the snow after a long, harsh winter on the plains. simply beautiful - that soft purple coming out of a patch of snow.

Exactly what appears in that picture. Perfect!

Right now I'm partial to morning glories simply because the morning glory seeds I planted started to peek their little heads through the soil yesterday. It's amazing how uplifting that can make me feel!

I have an aversion to plants. My mom says it's because she read me a story as a young child that involved a bear getting a bad case of poison ivy. Instead of being a child worried about monsters, I ended up as a child worried about plants. O_O

wow that's effed up, Doug. On the bright side, you're probably more likely to encounter a dangerous plant in life than a dangerous monster...

After a couple of wild flora classes I took in college, I'm in love with all flowers - like kids, I can't pick a favorite...

I do, however, have three orchids (exactly like the ones in Jessica's pic) tattooed on my foot - I got it after my divorce, one each for me and my two daughters. I got it when I dumped my abusive ex-husband and the three of us struck out on our own.

Orchids are pretty awesome, however, the fact that I am obsessed with the film "adaptation" may have something to do with that.

Total non-feminist question for comments...what's your favorite flower/plant?

As a heterosexual male, I have to say "any flower in a Georgia O'Keefe painting" ;) Although, roses and lavendar are nice looking and good to make into tea, so I guess I have to say roses or lavendar.

I like this flower ... as, Ninapendamaishi points out above, it looks like a flower in a G. O'Keefe painting.

Regarding not being able to pick a favorite flower: my dad would, when asked his favorite color, always respond to us kids "it would be unfair to play favorites". Of course, this is the guy who, when bugged about not watching his blood sugar would respond "if I didn't eat all that candy, I wouldn't be the sweet person that I am" and then make a joke that, as a father and a diabetic, it makes him "a sugar daddy".

lotus!

citrus trees... the best smell in the world.

I am not a huge flower fan, however I simply love cacti plants -- I find their ability to survive for long amounts of time without water amazing.

Crocus are so ambitious - they will push right up through the snow, it makes me feel like anything is possible. But I also love orange poppies - especially the ones that grow wild all over Europe. And dandelions. Man, do I sound like a hippie or what?

Dandelions - yes! I want to lay in a field of plush green grass and loads of yellow and fluffy dandelions under the warm summer sun. Oh!

Japanese cherry blossoms -- they bloom before the leaves come in, so the entire tree is just encrusted with flowers. :o)

Wisterias - we don't have them here in Chicago that I've seen (I could be wrong) but I remember there were gorgeous stands of them in Princeton, NJ near where I grew up. Those plants had exuberant flows of purple hanging over wooden fences. Lilacs are a close second, following by the bristly magenta-red blooms on mimosa trees.

In general, I'm a sucker for flowering trees.

I love roses -- especially roses in colors you may not expect. But I also like honeysuckle, jasmine, lilacs... anything that smells good. Or, alternately, given the fact that my apartment gets no sun whatsoever and my husband and I have killed two plants in less than a year, I like any sweet-smelling flower that has a corresponding Yankee Candle. :o)

I love the lantana, and yes I know it's pretty much an Australian weed, but it's my fave anyway...

big fan of the sunflowers.
and a BIG fan of feministing.
p.s.- i blog about plants, and if anyone's interested it's www.naturewalkboston.blogspot.com

big fan of the sunflowers.
and a BIG fan of feministing.
p.s.- i blog about plants, and if anyone's interested it's www.naturewalkboston.blogspot.com

Definitely daisy. I have a bunch I've planted in my back yard. Love them.

The tiger lilly - my province's official flower :)

Personally I'm kinda partial to this one.

I'm rather partial to Bleeding Hearts myself:)

I first encountered gardenias on my first trip to New Orleans & fell in love with them. They're beautiful to look at, especially the contrast between the dark leaves & light blossoms & they smell heavenly. I was so happy when I found out that Bath & Body Works makes a gardenia spray.
I'm currently growing moonflowers, which are growing like crazy. I swear, every day they're an inch taller. They're supposed to have big white flowers that only open at night & smell good.
My first menial job was at the flower department of Stop & Shop, which I loved. I got to take care of all the plants & make flower arrangements. I was pretty much left to my own devices, which was cool.

My Dad has a crapload of orchids. They're amazing.

And it's not actually a flower (well it sort of is) but I LOVE the smell of lilac.

what a beautiful flower!
my favorite is the philadelphus
EG:)

I would have to say the Amorphophallus titanum.

Bluebonnets! :D

Lilacs. Beautiful lilacs.

Snap-dragons, because you can snap them!
(Although you're really not supposed to- I hear it's bad for the plant!)