Marigolds

 Marigolds are grown local­ly in SoCal and avail­able in mid to late summer.

Dur­ing our work­shops, we are often asked about good resources to learn more about what vari­eties of flow­ers are avail­able and when they are in sea­son. Here are a few of our favorite online flo­ral libraries we use the most often in our business.

While you may not live near Los Ange­les, many of the flower lists here will help you find a new flower to look for in your local mar­ket. When we start­ed our busi­ness in 1999, there were many vari­eties of ros­es and seed­pods rarely seen at our local marts, but now, many grow­ers in our own back­yard are pro­duc­ing a wide vari­ety of won­der­ful flo­ral products.

Sier­ra Flower Find­er – This is a won­der­ful all around resource to find flow­ers by name, col­or, sea­son­al avail­abil­i­ty and variety.

Cal­i­for­nia Cut Flower Com­mis­sion  – Find flow­ers and green­ery grown in Cal­i­for­nia for the eco-con­scious choice.

Mayesh Flower Library – One of our local go to whole­sale ven­dors with dis­tri­b­u­tion cool­ers around the coun­try offers a very com­pre­hen­sive library of Amer­i­can grown flow­ers and import­ed flow­ers. This web­site also has a great library of how-to videos.

Resendiz Broth­ers – A large Pro­tea grow­er in San Diego coun­ty, their web­site offers a won­der­ful pho­to library of the huge options for Pro­tea, Leu­ca­den­dron and more! They grow over 33 types of Pin­cush­ion Pro­tea and the web­site shows when each type is in season.

Florabun­dance – This is a large flower whole­saler in Car­pen­te­ria with a won­der­ful flo­ral library that we use a lot to see what is in sea­son and available.