Perhaps the most popular flower in the middle school crowd is the carnation. At prom time, hundreds of carnation corsages are ordered to be-because they are considered worthy of that special friend. Why not our tastes change as radical as we age? Why do we hardly like planting carnations in our own home garden? Is it that we have come to believe that they are difficult to raise? That they are just "florists flowers?" Certainly we are deceived if that is the case. When is a good start, they actually grow like weeds.
