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Person Wonders Why Nobody Asks Men What Their Favorite Flowers Are, So This Twitter User Did And Got 35 Colorful Answers
It’s no secret that a lot of women love flowers and they let their significant others know what flowers they love getting the most. But it’s not that common gifting flowers to men, so we don’t even know what flowers they like.
Twitter user BobaFettish realised that after finding a Tumblr post which told a story of asking a boy what his favorite flower was as an icebreaker. The author of the post thought they would be mocked for asking such a question, but were pleasantly surprised to see that the boy actually gave a serious answer.
So BobaFettish got curious too and asked men on Twitter to share what their favorite flowers are. She got over 6k responses and was glad she asked the question as in a follow-up tweet she wrote, “I gotta say, I think this is my favorite thread of all time. I love hearing everyone's stories and memories associated with flowers.”
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And now I will be searching where to buy this incredible flower for my garden.
The thread really turned into a very wholesome space on the internet with men sharing all kinds of flowers they like and giving a reason why they like them or what memory they have attached to them.
You could also view this thread as an educational one because some men shared very exotic-looking flowers that you don’t see every day, showed pictures and wrote down the names, so you could look them up and maybe add them to your plant collection at your house.
I loved to see the lupins in Nova Scotia. Too hot in Florida for them to thrive.
According to Petal Republic, 73 percent of Americans said that they have a big appreciation for flowers and 88 percent of people revealed that they feel happiness when they give flowers, but a little bit less, 80 percent of people, said that gifting them makes them feel the same way.
Rose is the most popular flower to buy because “It serves as a timeless symbol of love and romance throughout the year in addition to serving as a filler or compliment in mixed-stem arrangements for numerous gifting occasions.” However, men in the thread would disagree as they find many other flowers more beautiful.
Most often flowers and plants are purchased as a gift for someone, then 20 percent are purchased for weddings or funerals and the remaining 20 percent are purchased for offices and homes.
The biggest occasion for gifting flowers in the US is Valentine’s Day. In 2021, Americans spent $21.8 billion on flowers to give to their significant others in celebration of the day of love.
My granny used to put big rusting iron nails into the soil where the hydrangeas grew, she said it made them bluer. I have never seen hydrangeas as blue as the ones she grew.
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I met my husband and the daughter who was meant-to-be-mine when I was 29, he was 39. He only asked for two things regarding our marriage: that it happen before he turned 40 and to have hydrangeas! They were also a favorite flower of my mother as it happened. Needless to say we have an abundance of hydrangeas in our yard and they graced my mother's house while she fought cancer. Their change in color is spectacular over the season if you don't cut the bloom. I have two more children - sons, and I only hope they will carry the thoughtfulness regarding beauty and sentiment like their father. Men should indeed, be able to stop and smell the flowers.
I love these! I can never remember what theyre called so i call them Pom Poms 😅 the scenic village Portmerion in Wales has hundreds
My father HATED blue hydrangeas because his trashy next door neighbors growing up had them and he always said they looked dirty and trashy. This wouldn't have been an issue but he did lawn service and mowing. More than one customer's hydrangea died at the hand of the Mad Mower. As far as I know no one ever complained.
He'd have been either murdered or sacked here. Depending if he first encountered my mom or my father....
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My grandma grew blue ones in her backyard. So far i haven't been able to keep one alive. Sad, they are my forever flower
That doesn't work. Rust is basic. You want acidic soil for blue. Use soil acidifier.
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One of my faves! My brother "inherited" the bleeding hearts from my dad's garden (both pink and white). I'm trying to convince him to let me split the plants, which is how you propagate them.
Floristry and floriculture is so huge because of one simple reason: flowers make us happy. According to an article posted on Lady Wimbledon by Flora Firth, it is because flowers give you “a connection to nature, to something beyond your normal, fast-paced environment. Colours also make you happier through chromotherapy, which uses colour to balance 'energy' lacking from a person's body, whether it be physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels.”
The author of the article also connects this pleasant feeling in our hearts when we see flowers with the reality of our ancestors: “flowers triggered dopamine for our hunter-gatherer ancestors because they marked the coming of abundance after a hungry winter. Now, the blossoming of a flower triggers the sense that something special is coming.”
Actually, more and more people are getting into growing plants. It was really evident when the pandemic started and people were bound to their homes, so they needed new hobbies and wanted to liven up their surroundings.
Another reason why plant enthusiast circles have grown could be because the sense of achievement when you see a plant grow and flourish is addictive. It also gives a sense of being needed and satisfies the nurturing instinct which is usually fulfilled by having children or pets, but in this economy, plants seem like the most reasonable investment.
Flowers make people happy regardless of their gender and it’s useful to know their preferences so you can gift them a bouquet that would bring them the most joy. Do you know what flowers men in your life like the most? Did you see your favorite flowers in this list? Let’s share the love for flowers together and show us your favorites in the comments!
We have them growing along the sidewalk where I live, they grow so high!
I love tulips, but they don't love Florida heat. I helped a student from Georgia transfer more credits than usual, and tulips were on the cover of his college catalog. The next day he brought me a beautiful arrangement.
Funny thing about the Lantana Confetti - it's considered a weed in Australia. Grows EVERYWHERE. Invasive species.
I love these! And I love how they close for nighttime and open in the day.
I love black flowers! i have a little goth garden with black pansies, violas, black parrot tulips, helebores and other ‘goth’ flowers, theres a lot of dark coloured ones! im used to being called a ‘pansy’ but there actually my favourite so whatever 😂
aaaaaa that sounds so pretty!!! Can you show a photo?????
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My husbands is gardenia. Right now I'm sitting in the living room w 5 huge gardenia plants around me. I wish I could take a picture everyone would laugh. It's like a jungle and I love it. They're all bloomed and it smells beautiful. Some big hyacinth trees behind me. He plants them outside in the summer. Digs them up in the fall and brings them inside. He does the same w our huge banana lemon and lime trees too. Those are in the basement in the artificial plant light until it's warm enough outside. He plants all these around the koi pond he built. We own a swimming pool company and this is his hobby since he has access to all the materials and the experience to build things like this. When the koi pond is in full bloom I'm submitting a post. It's like a little rainforest in the summer. He's also building a bamboo covered deck right now so we can grow stem vegetables like string beans cucumber
upvote not for the flowers, but for the joy everyone had when sharing their favourites <3
No love for dandelions? I love seeing them in my "lawn," which isn't really a lawn at all, but clover, moss, and wildflowers. I highly recommend switching from grass, which is a useless plant that is lousy for beneficial insects and the soil.
I loved the ones that included a story about why they liked them. Nostalgia and sentimentality are powerful.
my fave flowers are lavender, wisteria, and hydrangeas!
These are wonderful choices. All are so beautiful and smell so good. Summer winds
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Acidanthera are some of my favourites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiolus_murielae, but my favourite individual flowers that i was ever gifted were some white roses that i got for whatever Secretary's Day is now called. There were three administrative assistant types in my office, myself and two women, and our boss got us all these roses, but they somehow expected that i would say thanks and then give my roses away to the two women? Anyhow, i said thanks and hung them up to dry, then kept them at my desk for a year. they were really beautiful dried.
Aw. My hubby loved fresia's and magnolia. I just planted a magnolia tree and now I talk to it as if my hubby is still here. I hope the neighbours don't catch me at it or they'll cart me off to the asylum ;)
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Probably lilac. We had a lilac bush when I was young. To me it was huge, and I remember how much I liked the smell and the color. I think I am going to plant a lilac bush this year.
The hard part is waiting for the plant to mature enough to bloom. I had to wait three years before it started to bloom.
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Somehow I'm too practical person. I do not care much about "pretty" flowers (I don't destroy them also, I like to look on nice flowers, just... I do not need them), but I love things like tray of herbs. You know, just having a selection of basel, thyme, rosemary and parsley next to kitchen. I love straberry fruits. And tomato plants. I like fence made from string and peas or beans. I like fruit bushes and bushes for feeding birds. You know, useful plants planted in a reasonable way. Now, to make it clear, I do not like huge fields of one type, I like small garden diversity.
My dad’s favourite was dahlias, because his grandfather used to grow them when he was a boy. When he died we had dahlias instead of roses in all the flower arrangements. At my brothers wedding the year after there was this huge beautiful dahlia growing at the wedding venue, so it felt like he was there too.
Been used for at least a hundred years to make a heart medicine called digitalis or digoxin :)
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Pretty impossible to pick just one. It's always the one that has just come out. If I really had to I'd pick gorse. I walk a lot in the middle of nowhere and it's often the only shelter from the wind, plus it's quite a pretty flower with a great scent of coconut and vanilla.
Im not really a flower guy, so I think I mostly appreciate wild flowers in the nature, but hard to say what would be my favorite.. daisies are always lovely, we also have those bells and especially ones called cat bells and their white variant you can find close where I live are lovely and pure, these are apparently called Lily of the valley in english and I think they are cute so I make them as my contribution: kielo-6248...72bce5.jpg 
Redbuds are one of my favorites because they are one of the first sign of spring.
The little yellow flower on clover is very high contrast to the dark green leaves. Too bad they are considered a "weed" here.
My mom grew the vegetable garden. Dad grew the flowers. When he was divorced he purposely grew a basket of petunias and hung them on the porch. One, he liked petunias. Two, it kept the local women away because they thought he already had a girlfriend.
Wysteria and any flowers from the plum family (Sakura, cherry blossoms, plums, etc.) :)
This is my Lepanthopsis astrophora. My favourite miniature orchid. indexa-624...0a828b.jpg 
Petunias As a kid I would help my grandmother with her gardening and she grew lots of petunias and every time I see them I am reminded of her.
My father grew Tea Roses, Primroses and Gladiolus. We had Lilac and Rhododendron in our yard. I think he inherited his mother's love for gardening. My grandmother had prize roses and raspberry bushes. My father grew Boysenberries and had a European Plum Tree. But his real skill he picked up from his mother was canning. We picked at least 20 pounds of Wild Blackberries one year. We had so much blackberry jam and syrup, Sunday breakfast was always a treat!
I love Forget Me Not flowers! The different shades of blues and violets 😍🥰
Tulips are my all time favourite, but I also like foxgloves and daffodils.
No love for Dahlias? I plant a flower garden every year and the selections i plant my BF loves them
I have a Jasmine plant in front of my patio. Cute little white flowers and the smell is amazing! Also have azalea with two different colors, lily of the valley and a few other lily bulbs, gardenia all out front.
Amorphophallus titanum means giant misshapen d**K https://en.wikipedia...flower)_-_2.jpg
I love black flowers! i have a little goth garden with black pansies, violas, black parrot tulips, helebores and other ‘goth’ flowers, theres a lot of dark coloured ones! im used to being called a ‘pansy’ but there actually my favourite so whatever 😂
aaaaaa that sounds so pretty!!! Can you show a photo?????
Load More Replies... My husbands is gardenia. Right now I'm sitting in the living room w 5 huge gardenia plants around me. I wish I could take a picture everyone would laugh. It's like a jungle and I love it. They're all bloomed and it smells beautiful. Some big hyacinth trees behind me. He plants them outside in the summer. Digs them up in the fall and brings them inside. He does the same w our huge banana lemon and lime trees too. Those are in the basement in the artificial plant light until it's warm enough outside. He plants all these around the koi pond he built. We own a swimming pool company and this is his hobby since he has access to all the materials and the experience to build things like this. When the koi pond is in full bloom I'm submitting a post. It's like a little rainforest in the summer. He's also building a bamboo covered deck right now so we can grow stem vegetables like string beans cucumber
upvote not for the flowers, but for the joy everyone had when sharing their favourites <3
No love for dandelions? I love seeing them in my "lawn," which isn't really a lawn at all, but clover, moss, and wildflowers. I highly recommend switching from grass, which is a useless plant that is lousy for beneficial insects and the soil.
I loved the ones that included a story about why they liked them. Nostalgia and sentimentality are powerful.
my fave flowers are lavender, wisteria, and hydrangeas!
These are wonderful choices. All are so beautiful and smell so good. Summer winds
Load More Replies... Acidanthera are some of my favourites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiolus_murielae, but my favourite individual flowers that i was ever gifted were some white roses that i got for whatever Secretary's Day is now called. There were three administrative assistant types in my office, myself and two women, and our boss got us all these roses, but they somehow expected that i would say thanks and then give my roses away to the two women? Anyhow, i said thanks and hung them up to dry, then kept them at my desk for a year. they were really beautiful dried.
Aw. My hubby loved fresia's and magnolia. I just planted a magnolia tree and now I talk to it as if my hubby is still here. I hope the neighbours don't catch me at it or they'll cart me off to the asylum ;)
Load More Replies... Probably lilac. We had a lilac bush when I was young. To me it was huge, and I remember how much I liked the smell and the color. I think I am going to plant a lilac bush this year.
The hard part is waiting for the plant to mature enough to bloom. I had to wait three years before it started to bloom.
Load More Replies... Somehow I'm too practical person. I do not care much about "pretty" flowers (I don't destroy them also, I like to look on nice flowers, just... I do not need them), but I love things like tray of herbs. You know, just having a selection of basel, thyme, rosemary and parsley next to kitchen. I love straberry fruits. And tomato plants. I like fence made from string and peas or beans. I like fruit bushes and bushes for feeding birds. You know, useful plants planted in a reasonable way. Now, to make it clear, I do not like huge fields of one type, I like small garden diversity.
My dad’s favourite was dahlias, because his grandfather used to grow them when he was a boy. When he died we had dahlias instead of roses in all the flower arrangements. At my brothers wedding the year after there was this huge beautiful dahlia growing at the wedding venue, so it felt like he was there too.
Been used for at least a hundred years to make a heart medicine called digitalis or digoxin :)
Load More Replies... Pretty impossible to pick just one. It's always the one that has just come out. If I really had to I'd pick gorse. I walk a lot in the middle of nowhere and it's often the only shelter from the wind, plus it's quite a pretty flower with a great scent of coconut and vanilla.
Im not really a flower guy, so I think I mostly appreciate wild flowers in the nature, but hard to say what would be my favorite.. daisies are always lovely, we also have those bells and especially ones called cat bells and their white variant you can find close where I live are lovely and pure, these are apparently called Lily of the valley in english and I think they are cute so I make them as my contribution: kielo-6248...72bce5.jpg
Redbuds are one of my favorites because they are one of the first sign of spring.
The little yellow flower on clover is very high contrast to the dark green leaves. Too bad they are considered a "weed" here.
My mom grew the vegetable garden. Dad grew the flowers. When he was divorced he purposely grew a basket of petunias and hung them on the porch. One, he liked petunias. Two, it kept the local women away because they thought he already had a girlfriend.
Wysteria and any flowers from the plum family (Sakura, cherry blossoms, plums, etc.) :)
This is my Lepanthopsis astrophora. My favourite miniature orchid. indexa-624...0a828b.jpg
Petunias As a kid I would help my grandmother with her gardening and she grew lots of petunias and every time I see them I am reminded of her.
My father grew Tea Roses, Primroses and Gladiolus. We had Lilac and Rhododendron in our yard. I think he inherited his mother's love for gardening. My grandmother had prize roses and raspberry bushes. My father grew Boysenberries and had a European Plum Tree. But his real skill he picked up from his mother was canning. We picked at least 20 pounds of Wild Blackberries one year. We had so much blackberry jam and syrup, Sunday breakfast was always a treat!
I love Forget Me Not flowers! The different shades of blues and violets 😍🥰
Tulips are my all time favourite, but I also like foxgloves and daffodils.
No love for Dahlias? I plant a flower garden every year and the selections i plant my BF loves them
I have a Jasmine plant in front of my patio. Cute little white flowers and the smell is amazing! Also have azalea with two different colors, lily of the valley and a few other lily bulbs, gardenia all out front.
Amorphophallus titanum means giant misshapen d**K https://en.wikipedia...flower)_-_2.jpg
