Flower is a sweet but trippy 60s love child who experiences regular flashbacks and hallucinations. Because of this, she bounces between lucidity and trances that often leave her distracted and confused.  

Flower is an excitable, talkative, sweet, albeit trippy, woman of 30 or 31. She tends to bounce back and forth between lucidity and a state of being high or in a trance, making her easily distracted and confused. She comes across as quite simple but is actually quite intuitive as evidenced in “Flower’s Article”. Here we see her ask leading questions to figure out if Issac and Alberta are being honest with her regarding the secret behind her bank robbery story. She can make sense of more complex idea if she is able to focus long enough. She also sees things in a more positive light and seldom gets angry. If she does get upset, she’s able to handle her feelings in a more peaceful way. She is described as being the biggest “do-gooder” out of all the ghosts.

Flower is a self-proclaimed feminist and beleives that women should have equal rights to men. When Pete dismisses her offers to watch and talk basketball with her instead of Jay (“Ghostwriter”), she is frustrated that after 50 years, women aren’t being treated like an equal akin to how Pete has treated her. After talking to Hetty who convinces her not to tolerate being disrespected by a man, Flower confronts Pete and lets him know she was hurt by his actions and that just because she is a woman doesn’t mean she cannot appreciate a game of basketball. Turns out that she has an extensive amount of knowledge pertaining to basketball history. She tells him that she knows about various basketball plays and that she even played in high school. And when Pete responds that he didn’t know, she explains that is it because he erroneously “judged a book by its cover.” She goes on to further educate Pete about basketball, the players who played during the 40s and 50s who Pete didn’t even know anything about. She also proceeds to educate him on the entire history of the game starting with the fact that Dr. Naismith in 1891, started basketball as a way to find a game for his YMCA students to play indoors during the winter.

Flower states that she is closest to Sasappis in the house, likening him to a brother.

Flower admits to having intimacy issues and is hesitant to enter into a relationship with Thorfinn unless they can find a third to be a buffer. Thorfinn later admits to Flower that he is not okay with having a third and would prefer to wait for as long as it takes for Flower to be comfortable in being with only him. Flower is flattered by Thorfinn ’s kindness and patience. Flower continues to have feelings for Thorfinn although she is still not ready to pursue a one on one relationship with him. However, in “Attic Girl” when Thorfinn tries to ask her to dance with him, he struggles to find the words. Flower grasps what he is trying to do and suggests that they dance together during ghost prom. It is their first dance together. This is an appropriate next step for them as throughout the episode, Flower can be seen gazing upon Thorfinn affectionately quite frequently.

In “Ghost Hunter” Flower shows tremendous growth after she gets stuck with Thorfinn in Freddie’s ghost trap. When Pete volunteers to go into the trap to help rescue the two, they are kissing, having agreed to make the most of the time they have left together. Once they are released, Flower states that she is inspired by Pete’s doing something he was scared to do. She then decides to face her fears and go on a date with just Thorfinn, no third. This could be the beginning of Flower learning to overcome her intimacy issues.

When lucid, Flower is a very sensitive soul. She was very protective of the details surrounding her bank robbery story, fearing the truth would make her out to be a selfish, hypocrite and a fraud. She was also upset at first at the prospect of the show “Dumb Deaths” documenting the details surrounding her premature demise, stating that the show would be making fun of her and that she didn’t like that. Flower was always the kind of ghost to care deeply for those around her, as she was in life. She listened without judgment, and spoke her words with love. We learn in the third season’s premiere that Flower was also a friend to the basement ghosts with whom she shared much in common.

In “A Date to Remember,” Flower confronts her intimacy issues when sharing a heartbreaking story about a past beau, Michael. It is clear that from talking about him, she is still heartbroken and traumatized by her loss.

Flower has a higher level of intelligence when at her most lucid. In “A Date to Remember” she shows cunning by feining forgetting her date to avoid having to admit she had a good time and to avoid having to confront her intimacy and trust issues. She understands that most of the other ghosts assume that shes always forgetful and trippy, and used that to her advantage when Thorfinn asked her about their date.

Flower was born Susan Montero on October 9, 1938.

A few years before her untimely passing in 1969, she was arrested in New York City for being under the influence and trying to infiltrate the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in the nude. At the time, she stood 5’6 and weighed 108 lbs. She started playing basketball as a child as she learned from her three older brothers. In high school, she played basketball, having scored 20 points in the first half alone in one game. She also described herself as being quite aggressive on the court, even though she considers herself a pacifist.

As a young adult, Flower became a member of the counter-culture revolution of the late 1960s had joined several cults and lived within several communes during which she was married to couples, making them a “throuple.” She also enjoyed engaging in recreational drug use which was the contributing factor to her death.

In 1968, she, along with other members of her commune, robbed a bank with the goal of donating the money to helping animals in need. She was sworn to secrecy to never talk about the events of the robbery by taking an “eternal blood oath.” However, during her afterlife, she quite often brings up the fact that she “robbed a bank once.” Flower finally reveals that she felt guilty after the bank robbery not because they robbed a bank but because her and her partner, Ira stole the money for themselves in hopes of helping people in need (‘Flower’s Article‘).

Soon after the robbery, Flower and Ira, happened upon the grounds of the Woodstone Mansion while attending a music festival nearby. High off hallucinogenic mushrooms, they came across a bear who upon sensing them raised its arms to attack. Flower misconstrued this to mean the bear simply wanted a hug but instead it mauled her to death.

When Flower played basketball, she was not allowed to dribble the ball any other way but forwards and backwards. She also played three on three basketball because women were not allowed to play full court five on five basketball. The floor was divided into offensive and defensive halves and each team had three guards who only defended and rebounded on their end of the court and then there were players who played on the offensive side of the court. Women were also not allowed to play basketball past high school which is why Flower stopped playing. Flower was also surprised to learn recently from Pete that there is a WNBA (Women’s National Basketball League) and believes that her part in the women’s liberation movement had a direct impact on this league coming into fruition. In the year Flower died, there were only 23 colleges playing in the NCAA. Flower also was a big fan of UCLA college ball in the 60s, stating that they dominated and they were the best team for a long time.

Flower is not a fan of any other sports besides basketball, stating that she thinks “all other sports are stupid, and are a complete waste of time.” However, she enjoys practicing yoga. Flower’s nickname in high school was Susan “The Rabid Badger” Montero due to her aggressiveness on the court. She was not bullied in high school.

Flower admits to Thorfinn that there was truth in her telling him that she loved him while they thought he was about to ascend. However, she only said that because there was a possibility that she couldn’t have him. In life, Flower struggled with intimacy issues and while she was in a committed relationship with her boyfriend, Ira, they always had a third in their relationship to act as a buffer to prevent things from getting too intense. Thorfinn suggests that maybe they get a buffer if that is what it takes to have a chance with Flower. The two of them proceed to interview the other ghosts in the house to see who would be a good match for them. They ultimately choose Pete but upon hearing what he’s been chosen to do, he respectfully declines. Flower then surprises Thorfinn with the addition of Crash’s body to be their buffer, reasoning that he is a perfect compromise as he is without a head. Thorfinn admits to Flower that he is not okay with having a third and would prefer to wait for as long as it takes for Flower to be comfortable in being with only him. Flower is flattered by Thorfinn ’s kindness and patience and the two agree to wait to be together.

In the season two premiere, “Spies” Flower reveals that she once slept on a boat tarp with several members of Fleetwood Mac.

In “Alberta’s Podcast,” Flower helps Hetty find a way to deal with Sam and Jay’s very loud, and borderline broken washing machine. She suggests that Hetty sit on it, and after that relaxes her, Flower explains that the vibrations of the washing machine made her aroused. When Hetty visits her and admits her shame in going to sit on the washing machine a second time, Flower convinces her that there is nothing to be ashamed of and that she can do what she wants with her own body because it belongs to her. She states that men have found a way to dictate what women should and shouldn’t do, and what they should and shouldn’t experience as a way to control women. When Hetty states that women still need men to design and manufacture washing machines, Flower states that women can do those things too. When Flower finds Hetty outside disappointed that the old washing machine is being replaced for a newer, quieter one, she tells her that she can find other ways to achieve “the feeling.” She then asks Hetty to take her hand and leads her to the house, whispering different things to Hetty which then causes Hetty to respond to her in shock.

As Sam is showing a couple of B&B guests their upcoming hike route in “Jay’s Friends”, Flower warns them, through Sam, to avoid hugging bears at all costs. When Jay invites his new friend, Micah, who is accompanied by five of who he refers to as “co-workers” over to watch the basketball game, Flower, along with Trevor and Issac, are observing their conversation. Flower is initially infactuated with every word that comes out of Micah’s mouth, even though none of it makes any sense. Flower is able to quickly discern that these people are not in a pyramid scheme, as Trevor suggested, but rather that they are in a cult. Flower excitedly states that while Jay is not a member yet, his chances of getting in are high.

While Sam and the others are frustrated that Jay’s new “friends” are actually out to recruit him to a cult, Flower doesn’t understand their negativty, stating that it’s a good thing for Jay and that he will make life-long friends. Sam responds that he is not joining a cult, and Flower argues that he might want to. In a suddenly serious demenaor, Flower warns her that sometimes when family members give their loved ones an ultimatum between them and the cult, the cult usually wins. As Sam warns Jay about his being recruited to join a cult and asks about the patches Jay willingly accepted to sell on consignment, Flower watches in anticipation. She squeels with delight when Jay reveals that he is wearing a patch, signaling to her that he has been accepted as a new member of the cult.

Later, Flower is standing alone outside of the mansion. Alberta approaches her curious about what she said about having to choose between family and the cult. Flower initially refuses to elaborate on that story to which Alberta responds that she understands. She leaves Flower alone for a few seconds before reapproaching her, claiming that Flower had been telling her the story of how she chose a cult over a family member. Of course, Flower responds differently this time, asking her where she was in the story. She then proceeds to open up about her how her brother, Robbie, showed up at the cult’s compund where she lived and tried to get her to come home. But the cult banned him from the property and forbade Flower from ever speaking to him again. This attempt proved futile as he was kicked out of the compound by those in charge and Flower was subsequently banned from having contact with her family ever again.

Flower becomes aware that perhaps Jay’s joining a cult is not a good idea. When Sam mentions that it would an incredibly arduous and expensive endevaor to vacate the squatting cult members, Flower suggests to Sam that she sleep with Micah. She reasons that nothing splits up a cult faster than when an outsider sleeps with its leader.

After talking to Sam in the kitchen, Flower joins Trevor and cult member Alana on the couch to watch some television. Alberta walks in and suggests that they look up her brother because he may still be alive. Flower respondly sadly that that isn’t possibly because after she left the cult, she heard that he was killed in the Vietnam War. She laments that she wasn’t there to convince him not to go; that he had spent his entire life protecting her and she was not there when he needed her most. He was M.I.A., which Flower believes to mean “murdered in action.” Trevor corrects her, saying that M.I.A is really “missing in action” and K.I.A is “killed in action.” This gives Flower hope that perhaps her brother might still be alive.

After a long day, Flower learns that Sam, at the behest of Trevor and Alberta, reached out to Robbie under the guise of being a former cult member. Sam receives a reply and allows Flower to read his words out loud. She learns that Robbie thought that she died hating him and now, knowing she didn’t brings him peace. Flower is overcome with emotion as she continues reading and also finds peace in knowing that her brother loves her and hopes he can tell her in their next lifetime. She is grateful to Sam for giving her a sense of closure and embraces her, which then leaves Sam in an euphoric trance.

As is Flower’s usual way, she is confused by what is going on after Thor becomes stuck in Freddie’s ghost trap, suggesting that she was not aware that there was a ghost trap on the table, and forgot that Thor had been trapped previously because he touched it. When the other ghosts explain what is going on, she becomes intrigued by the trap on the table and also touches it, trapping her inside with Thor.

In “A Date to Remember,” Flower confronts her intimacy issues when agreeing to a one-on-one date with Thor, her first in many many years. The date goes swimmingly and is even punctuated with a goodnight kiss. Flower admits having a great time (to herself) but when Thor attempts to talk about it with her, she feigns as though she has no idea what happened. This encourages Thor to re-do the entire date over again in hopes that Flower might remember their magical evening together. She almost gets away with getting Thor to believe that she actually forgot until she slipped up during Pete’s improv act, telling Sam that she said “staples” the night before. She admits that she didn’t want the date to go well. She later reveals that while in law school (I know right!) she had a very close relationship which ended truamatically when her beau (presumably her fiance) got sick and passed away. From that point on, she was scared of getting too involved with any one person as she feared it could happen again.

We also learn in this episode that Flower went to law school, making her one of the most educated people in that house, living or dead.

While Flower didn’t initially hide Crash’s head in a tree, like she accidentally admitted to earlier during “Ghost Father of the Bride,” she ends up annoyed by his singing to her while she is trying to watch TV and throw his head out of the window.

In “Whodunnit” Flower is excited to learn that a Nigerian prince has reached out to Pete for help and encourages him to do what he can do to help him. Her hopes of being able to help are initially dashed when Trevor admits that he isn’t supposed to be using the computer after the goings on at Christmas time. But when Trevor returns telling her and Pete that the Prince has written back and that this time he is willing to pay even more for them to send the money to help him, she immediately agrees to “borrow” funds from Jay and Sam’s account so that they can help.

Neither she nor Pete nor Trevor realize it’s a scam before they wire Sam’s money out without her permission or knowledge.

On the third season’s premiere, “The Owl“, we learn that Flower has passed on from the Woodstone Mansion. As the Ghosts begin to mourn, Jay creates hope that perhaps her spirit has transitioned into another life form in what’s known in Hindu as reincarnation, especially for Thor. Later, after Mark informs Sam and Jay that there is a barn owl taking residence in the property’s barn, Thor comes to be believe that his must be Flower reincarnated as the “tiny dinosaur.”

At the end of the episode, an intimate memorial is held for Flower and after Jay convinces Thor to let the owl go, he releases it into the wild.

As it turns out, Flower didn’t get sucked off after all. In “Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave“, Flower hears Thor scream out for her after the third attempt to bring her back via seance failed. She tries to respond to him from a well in the middle of the woods where she wandered off to a month prior and fell down it. She’s been stuck ever since.

Contrary to what was believed, Flower is actually still very much a ghost and simply got lost in the woods and fell into a well upon trying to chase a butterfly. And because holes are surrounded by dirt which effectively act like walls, it was impossible for her to escape. Thor, Sass, and Isaac explain to the “newer” Ghosts that holes are bad and that they had once gotten stuck in one. They continue to explain that in order fro them to finally escape, they had to trudge through the dirt toward the Woodstone basement. And because Mark and his crew are there to fill in the well per Sam and Jay’s request, they tell Flower that she too must go through to the dirt to safety. However, Flower finds going through the dirt terrifying and as theGhosts begin to panic, Hetty confronts her past and uses the telephone cord wrapped around her neck to pull Flower to safety.

In “The Travelling Agent,” Flower and Thor are happy to be back in each other’s arms again. However, Thor is keeping a secret from Flower– he and Nancy engaged in an affair in Flower’s absence. At first, he is keen to keep quiet for fear of hurting Flower, and encourages Nancy to do the same. But when Nancy uses her keeping his secret as leverage to get what she wants from him, he decides to take back power and confess his mistake to Flower. At first, Flower seems cool with it, believing that Thor only did it because he thought she was gone forever, and even thanks Nancy for being there for him. But after Nancy announces that Thor making her keep quiet about it made her feel unimportant, Flower becomes disappointed that Thor would treat Nancy with such disrespect and apathy.

After thinking about Thor’s behavior and talking to Nancy, Flower suggests that, since he and her care about each other and that Nancy also cares for Thor, they form a throuple to which Thor agrees.

In “Isaac’s Wedding“, Flower is seemingly enthusiastic about her new throuple with Thor and Nancy. And because basement Ghosts were not invited to the wedding, she resolves to stand with Nancy and state that neither she nor Thor will attend either. However, really wanting to go, both her and Thor state that they will go upstairs to act in civil protest. Later, when Thor admits that he doesn’t wish to be in a throuple because he loves Flower and only wants to be with her, Flower admits that while it is scary, she too love him and only wants to be with him.

Some information, mainly the ones that are relating to basketball, are from ‘March Madness w/Flower & Pete‘ and haven’t been shared in the series itself.

Flower spends her days of her afterlife dressed in what looks like a hand made ankle-length dress with a white lacy top accented with a knitted blue flower and multi-colored patched skirt. She wears rose-colored glasses over her brown eyes and has long dark brown hair. She wears long earrings, several woven bracelets on her left wrist, a ring one finger of each hand, and a simple necklace. She maintains hair under her arm pits and wears evidence of the bear attack on her right upper back and shoulder blade and scratches across her lower jaw and neck.

• Flower’s real name is Susan Montero. Sheila Carrasco who plays Flower had input in choosing Susan’s last name and chose Montero which was her abuela’s last name and to honor her Chilean heritage.
• After Flower’s death, her boyfriend Ira started a chain of fair trade coffee shops and named it “Daisy’s” as that was his nickname for her. These shops are dedicated to her memory as evidenced by its history that is written on each coffee cup.
• Flower is the third from most recently dead as she died in the late sixties and the third woman who have died on the property, becoming a ghost.
• Upon believing that Thor is ascending in “Viking Funeral” she confesses her love for him. However, once they see that it’s just lights from a police vehicle and that he is still a ghost, she takes it back stating that she just got caught in the moment.
• Flower is a mix of Mary and Kitty from BBC’s Ghosts.
• Much like her character, Sheila Carrasco played basketball growing up and is a big fan of the sport.
• One of Sheila Carrasco longtime friend Chris Eckert, played a character in one of ‘Ghosts‘ episode. In fact, he portrayed George in “Trevor’s Body” (Season 2, Episode 14).