What’s Blooming When? A Guide to Flower Seasonality

Flowers that you find at a local farm are more unique, fragrant, and longer lasting than those found at a typical grocery store.  

At a national grocery store chain, you can pretty much always find roses, carnations, mums, and babies breath at any time of year. Why? Because they are shipped in from other countries, usually Central and South America. 

Locally grown flowers, however, are vastly different. When a seed or bulb is planted, it blooms for about three weeks before the plant starts to produce seeds and dies. 

Locally grown flowers also only bloom during certain times of the year (You’ve never seen tulips and daffodils still blooming in July, for example). 

Each month, sometimes each week, on the farm, you will find different types of flowers, often in different colors. 

Flowers that are blooming in May and June are vastly different from those blooming in August and September–I couldn’t force them to bloom in the height of summer if I tried. 

And believe me, I’ve tried. 

So here’s what you can expect, generally, month to month at Aurora Flora: 

May: 

Snapdragons

Pincushion Flowers

Sweet William

Yarrow

Statice 

Black-eyed Susans

Feverfew

Satin Flower

Sometimes Sunflowers

June:

Sunflowers!

Strawflowers

Cosmos

Satin Flower

Feverfew

Blackeyed Susans

Statice

Yarrow

Sweet William

Pincushion Flowers

Snapdragons 

Sometimes Zinnias

July

Oklahoma Zinnias

Benary Giant Zinnias 

Plume Celosia

Crested Celosia (Brain Flowers) 

Ageratum

Cosmos 

Gomphrena 

Strawflowers

Sunflowers!

August

Amaranth

Oklahoma Zinnias

Benary Giant Zinnias

Plume Celosia

Crested Celosia (Brain Flowers) 

Ageratum

Cosmos

Gomphrena

Strawflowers

Sunflowers!

September 

Bicolored Sunflowers!

Zinnias of all kinds 

Amaranth 

Cosmos 

Plume Celosia

Crested Celosia (Brain Flowers) 

Strawflower 

There you have it! Please note that I can never guarantee when Mother Nature throws a curve ball, so even if you see it pictured here, it does not necessarily mean that it will be there when you come. Crop failure happens. We live and we learn!