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  • What Is Your Favorite Flower? | Collective Thoughts

    Don't believe I ever smashed a Dandelion blossom but I will this season just so I can find out about this smell. As a kid Dandelions meant waiting for the puff ball of seeds and then blowing on that ball to spread them with our breath and the wind. Something the neighbors striving towards... more

    Reviewed by sarahlee Mar 21 2008, 08:17am ( 26 reviews ) • collective-thoughts.com

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  • Reviewed by billse on May 25 2008, 11:35am

    Not quite sure I ever picked a favorite flower - not just because of allergies or the fact I rarely leave my office. But I'm feeling that I have to make a decision... so I'll pick a daisy. Very classical!

  • Reviewed by stonedfox on May 06 2008, 5:06am

    My favourite is daisies, because they're the most likely flower to appear in my dreams. This makes them seem like honest and valid flowers, at least to me :-) Great post, thank you.

  • Rated by wonderbug on May 04 2008, 1:39pm

    Hehe... a foray into why our favorite flowers ARE. Mine are Mimosas... they are bunches of fuzzy little balls of extremely aromatic buds. I don't find them the most attractive flowers. Neither is yellow my favorite color. They are my favorites because my secret childhood love gave them to me when I was a kid. I can never forget that. It was an unspoken, mystical, but mutual love. I even wrote a song about him and these flowers... Next favorite are Peonies... not as meek as roses, they are luxurious heads of voluptuous beauty ruffled by unrestrained passion.

  • Rated by dancewithshadows on Apr 14 2008, 12:55am

    Not into flowers, man :( Leaves, yes. Flowers, no.

  • Rated by SmugBaldy on Apr 06 2008, 9:53am

    I like it when, if I'm being asked to do something, I get something in return. Here Mark has a nice, short post that isn't just about his favorite flower. Instead, it's also a social media experiment. Rather than begging for links (like Collective Thoughts needs to beg) Mark does something different. He reminisces about one aspect of his own childhood - that as a kid he loved popping the heads off dandelions - and uses that to connect with his readers. Mark gives me a moment to reflect on my own life, and after that, it doesn't matter if he's asking for a link. I already got my happy moment by that point. Living in the south, I have to say my favorite flower is either the gardenia or the sweet olive blossom. If you've ever smelled either one, then you would know why.

  • Rated by sarahlee on Mar 21 2008, 8:17am

    Don't believe I ever smashed a Dandelion blossom but I will this season just so I can find out about this smell. As a kid Dandelions meant waiting for the puff ball of seeds and then blowing on that ball to spread them with our breath and the wind. Something the neighbors striving towards perfect lawns despaired of.Now my favorite flowers are mostly any of those who return year after year on their own accord; rewarding me for those initial efforts and patience in waiting a bit longer for the blooms.Here in the north country, those early daffodils heal a lot of winter blahs when their sunny faces open to assure us that spring will come. So they are always the "first favorites" and I start watching for signs of emerging leaves as soon as the snow starts melting in March. Daffodils are followed by the tulips and irises and then the multitudes of flowering perennials I've planted and those that nature has blessed these prairies with as wildflowers. Which ones return, their hue, abundance and time tell us a lot about the soil condition, moisture and weather, thus providing information as well as pleasure. I will always plant my annual bed to assure cut flowers for the house and to have a few marigolds and other helpers for the food beds. Yet it is those perennials returning year after year that bring the greatest joy.

  • Rated by ltlmsmfft on Mar 03 2008, 9:19am

    Great post! I think my favorite flower will always be yellow roses, because that's what my dad always bought for me as a child. He thought yellow was my best color and it's one of the few childhood memories I have that is not tainted with some sort of negativity.

  • Rated by expressitwrite on Feb 28 2008, 3:00pm

    An amazing, memorable post. Mark evokes childhood memories, the smell of flowers, their colors and textures to make his point. What is my favorite flower? It's tough to pick just one, but I'd probably have to go with Nasturtiums. They're brightly colored, easy to grow, and the blooms are edible. They make an ordinary salad look spectacular.

  • Rated by Frohergeist on Feb 23 2008, 1:28pm

    Dahlias, because they're crazynuts beautiful and look like outerspace exploding, evocative of a psychadelic Big Bang or a trancendent freezeframe of the exact moment a star goes supernova, or the cloistered, shimmering coalesence of a nebula.

  • Rated by jennosborne on Feb 21 2008, 6:26pm

    What a nice way to get to know everyone a little better. My favorite flower has always been the sunflower. Yellow is my favorite color and it's different than most traditional arrangements.