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What’s your favorite Valentine’s Day flower?

Alstromeria
Photo/Illustration: Steve Aitken
Russian ballerina Tamara Toumanova in Le Spectre de la Rose 1940
Photo/Illustration: PD-US-not renewed
Roses
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
Lilies
Photo/Illustration: Kerry Moore
Carnations
Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Benner
Alstromeria
Photo/Illustration: Steve Aitken
Russian ballerina Tamara Toumanova in Le Spectre de la Rose 1940
Photo/Illustration: PD-US-not renewed
Roses
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
Lilies
Photo/Illustration: Kerry Moore
Carnations
Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Benner

Maybe you’ll be lucky enough to have someone gift you a big bouquet of Valentine’s Day flowers today! Or maybe you’ll have to go out and buy some for yourself. Regardless, we want to find out what the most loved Valentine’s Day flower is.

   
Carnations Roses Lilies    
Alstromeria

The Specter of a Rose (learn more about him here)

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  1. user-7006902 02/10/2014

    My favorite Valentine flower is a gift certificate to one of my favorite mail order nurseries. Then I can plant the flower come Spring and enjoy it for years!

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