Resources - Flower Library

Welcome to our Flower Library. In these pages you will find over 134 of the most common florist flowers and foliages used in floral design. We have pictured and detailed the common and botanical names of each flower along with it's seasonal availability and colors. You may search for a flower by name or by image. For each flower we have detailed the care and conditioning methods, storage temperatures, design notes and problems specific to each flower. Also included in these pages are interesting facts about each flower including the country or region of origin, how the flower came to named, and historical notes about the flower.

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Blueberry

Blueberry

Shiny green oval-shaped leaves and fruits that develop intermittently along the stems of the plant. The fruits are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally uniformly blue when ripe. In the late fall the leaves turn scarlet.

Blushing Bride

Blushing Bride

 Delicate spindle shaped, papery white bracts surrounding a central fluffy mass of delicate florets.

Boronia

Small waxy bell-shaped flowers in loose clusters along upper stems.

Bouvardia

Small, fragrant, tubular flowers with spreading star-like petals in loose clusters at stem ends.

Boxwood - Oregonia

Boxwood - Oregonia

Small, dense, glossy dark green elliptical to lanceolate leaves that grow densely along sturdy, smooth barked branches.  The leaves of Oregonia have a creamy white variegation.

Bromeliad Blossom

Bromeliad Blossom

A rosette of colorful spiked leaves on the end of a stalk rising from the center of the bromeliad plant.

Brunia

Brunia

A cluster of knobby, green to grayish-brown fruiting heads on a woody stalk above feathery leaves.

Bunny Tail Grass

Bunny Tail Grass

Fluffy, soft seed heads, which resemble tiny bunny tails at the ends of long slender stems. These seed heads appear in late spring to early summer and can last well into fall. They start off green and gradually turn creamy white as they mature.

Bupleurum

Bupleurum

Multi-branched green filler flower and foliage with tiny yellow flowers at the ends.

Calla

Calla

Flowers are born on a spadix at the end of a long, thick, straight stem and surrounded by a distinctively shaped spathe. Full-sized callas have a spathe 3-5 inches long and stems 15-36 inches long. Mini callas have a spathe 1-2 inches long and stems 8-12 inches long. 





Campanula - Bell Flower

Campanula - Bell Flower

Bell-shaped to funnel-shaped blooms 1-2 inches wide and long, in loose clusters at the ends of long stems. 



Carnation

Carnation

A single flower, delicate multi-petaled, double blossom at the end of a long stem.  

Carnation - Mini

Carnation - Mini

Multi-petaled, double blossoms approximately 1 to 1.5 inches across on sprays of multi-branched stems and many blossoms per spray.  

Caspia - Misty - Limonium

Small, papery flowers densely packed into clusters on branched semi-woody stems, 24-36 inches long.

Cattleya Orchid

Exotic shaped flowers 2-5 inches across, with 3 colored sepals, large side petals and a broad, tongue-shaped lip that is frilled or fringed. 

Chrysanthemum - Standard

Chrysanthemum - Standard

Clematis

Clematis

Star-like blossoms with five delicate petals on long woody vining stems.  Blossoms are 5 to 8 inches across.