When it comes to blooms, carnations may not win a popularity contest. “The floral industry kind of publicized them as fillers,” says Carolyn Chen, owner of Wild Things in Birmingham. She also notes pop culture’s influence—namely a Sex and the City episode in which a character predicts a date will be bad when a man gives her a bouquet of the offending flowers. “Things like that have snowballed into a big red X on carnations,” she explains.
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