What is your favorite flower?
 

Orchid is my favorite flower, I really like it.

Well mine is an orchid too. I think I would have to be more specific and say that the Slipper orchids are really my favourites. Probably the Phragmipedium types with long twisted petals.

Well, orchids of course! :biggrin:
But other than those, I do have some favorite 'normal' flowers. My favorite fragrant flowers are lilac and lily of the valley. In the non fragrant ones I really like Hemerocallis.

lilac and tessellated blue vanda flowers. tied for first. second is phal amboinensis

Tulips. Unfortunately, they don't grow in my region =/

You can if you store the bulbs in the fridge for a long period (can't remember how long). Much more work, and I suppose the flowers don't last as long in such a warm climate, but it is possible.

It would be impossible for me to pick a favorite. I'm fond of chids, that's for sure, but there are so many beautiful flowers. Variety is the "spice of life".

oh, really...:evil:

Yes, really! :biggrin: I looked it up, and this should tell you everything you need to know. How to grow tulips in warm climates?

Enablers are us, whether it's orchids or other plants. :evil: :rofl::rofl:

Angraecum sesquipedale, Rhyncholaelia Digbyana, phal. type dendros, blue vandas, Laelia anceps, Sophronitis coccinea, Phrag. besseae, and Renanthera coccinea; none of which I've had luck with BTW :/ oh well, I won't give up yet :D

Don't know what Nicky intended, but seeing as this is in the off-topic section, I'm thinking that we're supposed to tell which are our non orchid favorite flowers?? :scratchhead:

oopsie :) i LOVE yellow hibiscus, red crepe myrtles, and Mandevilla

Unfortunately Nicky is a spammer who has now been banned and the spam links removed. So not sure what her intention was as far as orchids or non-orchids, but the main intention it seems was to spam us :(

However I don't really want to delete this thread if it's drawn a good discussion so I'm going to leave it open.

So... my favorite :biggrin:

I would have to say Hippeastrum, also known (incorrectly) as Amaralis.

I love the massive flowers it produces. Just mesmerising!

I like that one too. They come in so many colors. Although there are many lovely flowers. Such as hibiscus and I don't no the correct name the Xmas cactus.

What is your favorite flower
 

My favorite is whatever is blooming at the time. Starting in spring, daffodils, magnolias, azaleas, later there are daylilies, anything in the Amaryllis family, right now the crepe myrtles, later more Amaryllis family. Well, you get the idea. :lol:
Beverly A.

sounds good. It is true there are so many nice flowers. Especially in spring.

Because they are beautiful and very fragrant. Most any night blooming cacti.

It is tough to pick a favorite. Roses are wonderful but digging around the roots under the thorny branches to treat with systemic is no fun, nor is spraying for 'black spot'. I have a variety of spring bulbs and fruit trees which make spring really lovely (when we don't get a late frost) and then, I have some summer bloomers that are sprinkled among my herbs. Heliopolis blooms from late spring until frost and is a pretty plant. I really like my jasmines because of their fragrance and the hibiscus for it's showy blooms. I've really liked my orchids when they bloomed but I wish they bloomed more often or for longer and were more strongly fragrant (roses, lilac, lily of the valley, and jasmines spoil me). Maybe some of the orchids that haven't bloomed will be a favorite. I do have some really nice young catts, angraecums, vandas, and a psychopsis that show promise. So far, my no ID phal-type dendrobium has the prize for the orchids. It usually has new spikes forming when the old ones begin dying off, is really pretty with nicely-sized purple blossoms that smell like grape geletin powder and the blooms last two and a half months. Wow! What a tough question!
Leafmite

I've never had a favourite flower because our culture is not 'flowery', I just got an orchid recently though and it is great.

Do flowers really have sweet scents?

This always reminds me of floating around in the seventies when it blooms.:waving
Fairchild gardens has a tunnel trellis of them about 50 feet long.
Strongylodon.

I like the unusual and would say that the bat flower is probably my favorite flower.

It's hard to pin down favorites, with so many wonderful plants out there.


As far as orchids go, my favorites are Bolleas and Huntleyas (even though Huntleyas are a pain in the butt to grow). I've recently fallen in love with Anguloas and Lycastes.


My favorite non-orchid flowers are Hymenocallis (the peruvian daffodils), Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum), and lilies. :)

Frangipani, and himalayan blue poppies. The first for its intoxicating scent, the other for its vivid, blue colouring.

Huntleyas are easy in intermediate climes.I tried them in Miami. FAIL.
Here, you need a machete to keep them at bay.
Here's a really neat flower.
Hint. Almonds, peanuts, peanut butter, ice cream :evil:
You tropical folks hush. This is for yankees to guess.:biggrin:

Cacao flower? *thanks google* :whistling

:rofl::rofl:
Yep. Cheater !
Sore has an orchid "look" doesn't it?

Yeah... Reminds me of a nobile den. the way it flowers off of the main trunk like that. I've tried dried cacao beans that a friend brought back from Nicaragua. It's so unlike the chocolate that we consume that you always wonder who decided to use it like that in the first place!

It was probably the same guy that cooked the first octopus.:hijacked:

My new favourite looking flwer type is Marcgravia. They are just so weird. Check out these photos and article from the web.

Cuban Vine Uses Unique Acoustic Leaves to Attract Pollinating Bats - International Business Times

I get curious at non other than an orchid. tiny or larger

How about this ?:rofl:

Maria Juanita???

Puede ser.Yo creo que sí :biggrin:;)

Lily is my favourite flower, the structure is amazing.

Lilacs have always been my favorite. I got lucky with the new house - we have a nice young Lilac bush planted and it is in bloom right now :)

let's see.....tis a hard one...but there is this giant terrestrial bromilliad with blue/turquoise flowers....with I could remember the name...but that is a flower I love. I also love the flower of utricularia nelumbifolia.

The daughters of the rainbow: not weird, simply beautiful. Iris barbata elatior.