Lu's close friend Fan Chengda went even further in loving plum flowers to the exclusion of all else. In his Plum Album he states clearly at the very beginning: "The black plum is the finest of all things under heaven.
他的好朋友范成大，更是愛梅幾近霸道。《梅譜》開宗明義就說：「梅，天下尤物，無問智賢愚不肖，莫敢有異議。」