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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Caspia - Misty - Limonium

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. 

Clematis, Eyelash

Clematis, Eyelash

Clematis seedpods often referred to as Eyelash Clematis are as ornamental as the flowers themselves.  The seedpods develop as small, rounded clusters, resembling fluffy pom-poms or silky whorls.

Cocculus foliage

Cocculus foliage

Cocculus foliage features ovate leaves with a smooth margin. The leaves have a soft texture, and the stems are slender and flexible.

Cockscomb - Celosia

Cockscomb - Celosia

Cockscomb is a very interesting and unusual flower shape, resembling a cockscomb or folds of the brain. The blossom is large and found singly at the end of a heavy stalk.  

Coleonema, Diosma

A heathlike shrub with clusters of tiny blossoms near stem ends.  Stems covered in small needle-like leaves.

A detail image of cosmos.

Cosmos

Solitary flowers with a single row of large delicate petals surrounding a yellow center. 

Curcuma

Vibrant, trumpet-shaped cluster of bracts at the top of a stem.

Curly Willow

Curly Willow

Contorted, slender, flexible and twisted branches often forming graceful arcs and loops.

Cymbidium Orchid

Cymbidium Orchid

Orchid blossom is composed five outer petals and one inner petal with a fringed, boat-shaped lip. Blossoms are arranged on stems 16-24 inches long bearing 8-20 flowers. 

Daffodil

Daffodil

Trumpet-shaped corona with six surrounding petals in a star shape at the end of a long hollow stem 8 to 22 inches long. 

Dahlia

Dahlia

Dahlias consist of numerous hybrids and cultivars and a wide variety of shapes, textures and sizes, ranging from round to ball shaped, and daisy to pinwheel shaped. 

Delphinium - Belladonna

Delphinium - Belladonna

Spike shaped clusters of flowers 8 to 20 inches long on stems 18 to 48 inches long. Flowers are disc shaped, trumpet shaped, or dolphin shaped.