Roses are No. 1 on the social media platform; sunflowers rank second
Secret is one of the most popular roses in Sacramento.
Roses make beautiful photos. So, it’s not surprising, roses are Instagram stars.
In fact, roses are the No. 1 flower on Instagram, according to research by
AllAboutGardening.com
. And it wasn’t even close; the next nine flowers in the Top 10 combined aren’t as popular as roses.
How did the researchers come up with roses as the most Instagrammable flower? They counted hashtags (or had a clever search program do it).
As of June (which happens to be Rose Month), #rose or #roses had amassed 79.6 million posts on Instagram, according to AllAboutGardening.com.
A lot of that had to do with roses’ link to special occasions. Roses also rank as the most sold cut flower – more than 100 million stems a year.
Second is a Sacramento-area favorite: Sunflower. That summer favorite totaled 9.7 million posts (either #sunflower or #sunflowers). How many of those featured fields in Yolo County?
Also in the Top 10 is a California icon: Poppy. On Instagram, fields of California poppies are particularly popular, which propelled #poppies (or #poppy) to No. 7.
Here’s the top 10 in numbers of Instagram hashtags:
1. Rose, 79.6 million
2. Sunflower, 9.7 million
3. Tulip, 11.4 million
4. Orchid, 8.9 million
5. Peony, 7.7 million
6. Daisy, 7.6 million
7. Poppy, 5.5 million
8. Hydrangea, 4.6 million
9. Dahlia, 2.8 million
10. Hibiscus, 2.7 million
Said AllAboutGardening.com about its results: “These findings offer an interesting insight into which flowers people consider the most aesthetically pleasing to post about and serves as a guide to some of the most gorgeous flowers that can be displayed in homes this summer.”
Read more at
www.AllAboutGardening.com
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Sunflowers are the second-most Instagrammable flower, according to a recent study.
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Garden Checklist for week of Nov. 3
November still offers good weather for fall planting:
* If you haven't already, it's time to clean up the remains of summer. Pull faded annuals and vegetables. Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* Now is the best time to plant most trees and shrubs. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from fall and winter rains.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Keep planting bulbs to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* This is also a good time to seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* For holiday blooms indoors, plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs now. Fill a shallow bowl or dish with 2 inches of rocks or pebbles. Place bulbs in the dish with the root end nestled in the rocks. Add water until it just touches the bottom of the bulbs. Place the dish in a sunny window. Add water as needed.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.
* To help prevent leaf curl, apply a copper fungicide spray to peach and nectarine trees after they lose their leaves this month. Leaf curl, which shows up in the spring, is caused by a fungus that winters as spores on the limbs and around the tree in fallen leaves. Sprays are most effective now.
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