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Upper Puget Sound, Washington

Flowers & Décor

In Upper Puget Sound: This is a flower-growing region in its own right, not a market that ships everything in, and the calendar is worth planning your palette around. Daffodils open in March and the Skagit tulip fields run roughly the first three weeks of April — the single biggest bloom event on the West Coast, and the one time of year when growers are least able to take on extra work, so approach them the previous autumn for a spring date. Ranunculus and anemones follow in early spring; peonies arrive late May into June and last only about three weeks; sweet peas, garden roses, lisianthus and delphinium carry high summer; and dahlias — grown here by the acre — run from August until the first frost, usually mid-October. Foliage is a local strength year-round, with evergreen, salal, ferns and seeded eucalyptus available when little else is. Farmer-florists in the Skagit Valley and around Lynden and Ferndale will sell you stems cut from a field you can stand in, at a fraction of imported cost, and several will let you visit before you commit. Two practical notes: a farm-to-vase florist works to what the field gives, so brief them on color and feeling rather than a fixed list of varieties; and if your date falls outside the local season, ask early what is imported and what it costs, because that is where a regional flower budget quietly doubles.

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