PRODUCT UPDATES – 11/1/2017
This month in the world of wholesale flowers...
California product is starting to dwindle down in availability. We will be moving to more import.
Oregon has had a frost so they are finished with all flower crops and deciduous foliages.
Finished / Not Available
Acorns
Anemone Japanese
Artichoke Blooming
Blackberry vines- foliage only
Calendula
Chamomile yellow daisy- no one grows this anymore
Chestnuts
Clematis – local
Cosmos- pinks and whites
Cotinus Blooming
Cotinus Foliage- last week
Delphinium Belladonna Light Pink
Echinops
Eremurus
Eucomis
Euphorbia Dog Eye
Fruiting branches - Blueberry
Fruiting Branch Pomegranate
Garnet Kings/ Peter Johns- Grower went out of business
Ginger Beehive
Heather white or pink- local starts end of November
Hellebore - New Zealand
Honey Suckle
Hops
Hydrangea lacecap
Hydrangea peegee
Kumquats- restricted movement by the Department of Agriculture
Lace Flower
Leucadendron Jester - finishing
Lupine
Maple Folaige
Marguerite daisy
Matsumoto aster- Peach, Yellow, White
Ninebark
Oregano Kents Beauty and Hopley’s pink
Pokeweed
Poppy Matilda
Poppy oriental
Poppy Icelandic- no poppy of any type available
Protea Waratah
Rain Tree pods
Riceflower - locally, no white, pink is barely 14” tall
Rose Hips Pumpkin
Rose Hips Magical
Rudbeckia
Sedum
Shasta Daisy
Snowberry
Spirea
Stephanotis Vines
Thryptomene/ Calycina- Import
Viburnum foliage
Yarrow tansy button
Limited
Agonis-$$$$$
Anemone- import
Artichokes all size and colors - gapping
Aster Matsumoto- White, Lavender, light/medium pink- almost non-existent
Begonia Foliage
Birch Victorian
Calicarpa - Beauty Berry
Celosia Feather - import , local is limited volume and color selection
Cottage Yarrow - white, peach, cream - go import
Dahlias - Burgundy - demand is insane, supply is limited
Delphinium Belladonna White
Delphinium Belladonna light blue
Delphinium hybrid all colors
Dianthus Green Ball- local is trickling in
Eucalyptus Gunni
Eucalyptus Small leaf (moon lagoon, gumdrop, parvifolia, bonsai)
Freesia Super - local -$$$$
French Tulip- finished in Holland, only one local vendor limited amounts and colors (NO PEACH)
Foxglove- all colors very limited white & htp finished… limited Illumination
Iris regular – no light blue
Gardenias
Gomphrena White
Hydrangea local Limited, mostly antique greens
Nigella
Papyrus Lions Head- advance notice required
Pampas Grass - large orders - advance notice required
Protea- Protea Blushing Bride- import- winding down
Protea King white (SUPER Limited)
Protea white - import and local but limited
Ranunculus - import
Scabiosa white annual
Scabiosa black, burgundy, perennial white
Scabiosa- Limited Local and Import
Strawflower- yellow, bronze/orange, purple only
Sweet Pea- Dutch only, limited color selection
Virburnum Spring Bouquet (tinus)
Available
Alchemilla Mollis - import
Allium- import only (Dutch)
Amaranthus
Asclepias- local and import (orange is limited)
Aster Matsumoto- hot pink purple, red
Banksia prionotes and menziesii
Bear Grass Super
Birds - import only
Bouvardia- very limited locally (no light pink grown in usa) - go import (has all colors)
Brunia Silver
Bupluerum
Calla- calla supply is unpredicatable lately, heavu to flame and yellow-low on pinks and whites
Campanula- import only $$$$$
Chamomile/ Matricaria/feverfew
Chinese Lanterns - leafless
Clematis - Import only- no White
Cosmos Chocolate
Cotton
Coxcomb- Import
Craspedia-local and import
Crocosmia Flower - import - $$$$
Crocosmia Pods- import only
Delphinium Bella dark blue
Dianthus Green trick or Green Ball- Import
Dahlias - Most local outdoor dahlia crops should be finishing up.The supply of Burgundy from all growers is becoming limited and may hit a gap in between crops. Greenhouse dahlias from our year round dahlia growers are right around the corner. This means basic colors.
Oregon dahlias - Swan Island will not be available this year
Dogwood branches- (not blooming) - leafless
Echinacea cones
Festival Bush
Gomphrena
Freesia - local finished, import only
Hepatcodium
Hibiscus pods - Red
Jasmine vine no flower
Ilex - Orange, Red
Laurel foliage - variegated
Lisianthus – Local- white, purple, pink, yellow
Lisianthus Import only- black, blush, brown, peach
Lily of the valley- import only $$$$
Lysmachia- import
Magnolia - local California and Florida
Millet - green and black upright, green hanging
Monkshood
Oak Leaves
Orlaya
Ornithogalum- white, yellow orange- Import
Ornithogalum Arabicum- Import
Passion vine
Pepperberry hanging and upright
Peony- all colors available
Persimmons- orange
Phlox- import
Pieris- Bud-form pieris in good supply, still tight bud, no flowers until January
Poppy pods
Privett- black berries
Protea Pink Ice
Pincushion Protea (Leucospermum) orange - import
Red Rover Disbuds
Rose Hips - Red
Scabiosa Pods - Local
Scented Geranium
Southern Smilax
Statice - blue not available for the rest of the year
Stephanotis
Sunflower- black center, green center, tinted red, Teddy Bear, Bi Color (Mahognay)
Trachelium - Import
Tulips- production locally and import going up
Tweedia local
Veronica- Local and Import
Vine Maple
Waxflower- local purple and pink available/ white limited
Waxflower Hybrid- Import
Wax - import
Yarrow yellow- local