Lars, right now I have a salmon Gerbera on the dining room table, and vases full of purple lilacs all through the house, which I've cut from the lilac hedges on our farm.

Then again, I'm probably not the best person to ask. I don't have a white kitchen or any white walls in my house, and I like white flowers outdoors where at night they can "glow". I do like daisies, in part because they were my mother's favorite, and there are various white wildflowers I'll cut and bring in the house, like Queen Anne's lace and cow parsnip, but I like them with masses of greenery.

I do prefer white to red Amaryllis at Christmastime, but then I tend to avoid red in flowers year-round (don't care much for red roses or red geraniums).

I'll probably be sorry I asked, but what are "flat" flowers?!

My mother liked all white flowers in a garden filled with lush greenery.

My small garden is basically all lavender with some white flowers.

Indoors, I like as many colors as I can get!

Flat flowers are two-dimensional and do not have parts that stick out. A lot of orchids are very three-dimensional, and people are now looking for ones that are not - probably because it is unnatural.

Like a tiny espalier? Or the flowers themselves are flat?

Either way, silly. But then my home isn't exactly the place for a magazine shoot.

Basically, they want flowers with a flat lip instead of a fat lip so that the flowers themselves are flat.

My workplace has the most glorious (live) white orchids, massed together in enormous pots. They make a statement, although the fact that they're white seems somehow to make them softly sing rather than shout. I'm certain they were carefully chosen to allow the art collection to be the star, and it's a concept that works beautifully. I've never thought of flower colors as being on-trend, but now that you mention it I can recall seeing white orchids in other places where a floral presence was desired, but nothing too attention-grabbing. In all of these scenarios, there was something else in the space that needed to be the feature, rather than the flowers. I like the look -- I think it tends to be modern in style -- and can see how it would be preferred over colorful flowers in a number of settings.

I love white flowers of any kind, indoors or out. I also love pink flowers. Red not as much. I do like white orchids. Right now I have Peonies in the house in various shades of pink. Outside I love white daisies, geraniums, and I always have New Guinea Impatiens in containers on the patio. Nothing eats them and they look so cool and fresh when it’s hot out. My white geraniums were eaten by budworms last year, and this year they’re after my pink ones.

I love white flowers, both in the garden and in my house. I have two white orchids in my kitchen bay window - perfect there. I always use white flowers with lots of greenery for my centerpiece in my DR as it's what works best there. I use color for flowers in my LR - white is "blah" in that room. I can use both color and white in my library - use what looks good.

There is nothing like a garden with lots of white flowers, at twilight. It glows.

Having said all this, the all white dishes, all white flowers and all gray everything else one sees today is just boring, boring, boring.

I grow mostly antique varieties of roses and that's what I bring indoors. I dislike trends, and especially trends in living things like flowers, that have so many different personalities and colors. Why limit yourself because it's trendy? That's simply absurd and I'm beginning to tire of it. We're all individuals, not a herd of sheep. Flowers should be very personal, both in what we grow and what we bring in the house. These are some of mine from the garden:

I can see how white flowers would appeal to businesses - it gives structure and shape as a supporting character (so to speak) to whatever it is they are selling (the star).

In a home? Flower colors should reflect the personality of those who live there. I don't see why a plant's flowers should be expected to match a color scheme. It's like requiring someone to dress dress in colors appropriate for the room/ house. A flowering plant is an inhabitant and welcome guest, not necessarily the decor itself (ok that sounds weird, but not sure how else to say it). The only flowering plants I have inside are a peace lily, and various Thanksgiving cacti in various colors (white, peachy, yellowy, and red). For cut flowers, I love anything happy and bright, especially yellow and oranges, but that does not reflect the rest of the decor.

I developed a theory in the 1980s that clothes should compliment the room that one is in. I noticed this especially when I took an Alaskan Airline flight from Seattle to San Francisco, and the interior of the plain was horrible brown colors while I was dressed in turquoise, magenta, and purple - definitely a clash with the colors of the plane interior (this was 1981, BTW). After that, I would call the airlines before flying to see if I could find out the color scheme of the plane's interior. Sadly, they were rarely able to give me that information.

I also know that I always felt more comfortable in rooms where the decor complimented what I was wearing. I would therefore prefer to go to restaurants or coffee shops that had decor that I liked and that looked good with what I was wearing. I do think it is possible to link interiors and fashion. I would never require someone to dress a certain way for a particular interior, but I certainly appreciate it when they do.

I got rid of all of the pink roses in my front and back yard when I first moved into my current house because they clashed with the color scheme of my yards. I gave most of them to a friend who had moved to a street called Rose Circle (or something like that) in Long Beach. But then I'm not a fan of roses anyway. I prefer plants and flowers that are more appropriate for the climate where I live, which includes cactus, succulents, and bromeliads. I still have some white roses in my front yard, as they have been difficult to remove, but I don't mind them as much as the pink roses.

I think that choosing the correct color of flowers is important in landscape design.

Ingrid--just gorgeous!! Wow.

Your roses are so gorgeous, Ingrid.

As for the white orchids, I kind of wonder if this isn't a case of life imitating art. When silk flowers first replaced plastic ones, there many that were so realistic you almost had to touch them to be sure they weren't real, but lately colored fake orchids have become as lurid and trashy-looking as the plastic ones used to be, so only the white ones have been worth buying and they've made their way into many staged interiors.

It's not surprising that the white real ones are now the most popular, too. That, and the total allergy to color that is so common now that RH has convinced many people that you will die if you accidentally see a color somewhere.

I was dressed in turquoise, magenta, and purple - definitely a clash with the colors of the plane interior (this was 1981, BTW). After that, I would call the airlines before flying to see if I could find out the color scheme of the plane's interior.

This. Is. Fabulous.

:-)