WERE PLANTS CREATED BEFORE, OR AFTER, MAN?

Genesis 1:11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Genesis 1:27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Genesis 1 is referring to the Earth itself (the Hebrew 'Erets'), while 2:5 is referring to "the field" (the Hebrew 'Sadeh').  Sadeh is always used in the Bible to refer to a specific area.  In fact, in reading 2:5 you can see what the author was talking about - about plants that needed man's help to thrive as opposed to wild plants.  Essentially, God created wild plants, but held back on creating those that needed man's help to thrive, until man was created.