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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The beehive ginger flower is a fascinating, exotic, and eye catching structure. The inflorescence is made up of densely packed waxy and stiff bracts that form a beehive-like shape. The true flowers are small, tubular, and typically emerge from between the bracts. These true flowers are often said to resemble bees.
Tiny, white flowers surrounded by 1 to 2 inch shell like calyexs (bells) clustered along 24 to 26 inch stems.
Small, rounded flower heads that are borne on slender stems. These flower heads are composed of numerous tiny flowers clustered together. The foliage consists of small, needle-like leaves that are arranged densely along the stems.
Firm, one inch, globe shaped flower heads at the end of long slender stems without foliage.
Bird of Paradise flowers are dramatic. They fan out from a boat-shaped sheath at the end of a long, thick, fibrous stalk 24 to 48 inches long. Petals are pointed and 3 to 4 inches long, giving a bird like appearance.
Firm shiny aggregate fruits, composed of small drupelets, which are incorrectly referred to as berries. These fruits are located in clusters at the end of stems with leaves below.
A collection of spring blooming branches from trees and shrubs. Including: Plum, Cherry, Quince, Forsythia, Dogwood, Redbud, Pussy Willow, Red Twig Dogwood, Apple, Apricot, Almond, Star Magnolia, and Pear.
Rounded clusters of delicate florets. Very similar in appearance to Queen Anne's Lace.
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.
Delicate spindle shaped, papery white bracts surrounding a central fluffy mass of delicate florets.
Small, fragrant, tubular flowers with spreading star-like petals in loose clusters at stem ends.
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.
A rosette of colorful spiked leaves on the end of a stalk rising from the center of the bromeliad plant.
A cluster of knobby, green to grayish-brown fruiting heads on a woody stalk above feathery leaves.
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.
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.
Bell-shaped to funnel-shaped blooms 1-2 inches wide and long, in loose clusters at the ends of long stems.
Small, 4 petaled florets in tight, flat-topped clusters up to 2 inches across at the ends of stems 6 to 12 inches in length.