I happen to love vibrant colors as much as I do pastels, so my favorite shades of pink are either the vibrant/intense almost magenta pinks or the smooth-as-cream cotton candy pink shades. I'm going to break Mary Sue's rule and list more than five: Rhodohypoxis baurii. Although I would love to see masses of these blooming in the Drakensberg (the one time I was there was late winter, and I was probably in the wrong part of them), they still look great smothering a pot in intense pink Amaryllis belladonna, especially the ones that have other related genuses in their ancestry. Although the plain species is now in full bloom all over the place here, mine in pots are just now sending up scapes. Lycoris sprengeri, also just now sending up scapes in my pots. While I agree with Jane about pink forms of normally blue flowers, a normally pink flower with edges of electric blue is very striking to me. Since I'm not a species purist: intense pink Hippeastrum commercial cultivars Watsonia 'Opal'. A hard to find cultivar that is a nearly pearlescent shade of pink. Dierama pulcherrimum. Big arching fountains of this in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Zephyranthes 'Labuffarosea' (xCooperanthes 'Labufaroseus' according to T. Howard). A good one of these has the best shade of pink of all the Zephyranthes, IMO. I *love* pink cup (W-P and Y-P) Narcissus cultivars. Veltheimia bracteata, both the species and the rosealba cultivars. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10