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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