What grows around Oamaru,
month by month

Ask us for peonies in August and you'll get a gentle no. Not because we're difficult, but because peonies don't grow here in August. What does grow here changes almost weekly, and it's the reason our bouquets look different across the year.

This is roughly what the Waitaki gives us, month by month. Your mileage will vary by a week or two depending on the season's mood.

The local year

Spring (Sep–Nov): Ranunculus, anemones, tulips, sweet peas, freesias, blossom branches. The most generous season. Everything arrives at once and the colours get silly.

Summer (Dec–Feb): Dahlias take over and stay until frost. Garden roses, delphiniums, cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers. Hydrangeas peak late summer.

Autumn (Mar–May): Dahlias hang on until the first proper frost, then it's chrysanthemums, berries, foliage with real colour, and the last of the roses.

Winter (Jun–Aug): The honest season. Proteas and leucadendrons from further north, camellias locally, hellebores late winter, lots of structural foliage. Bouquets get moodier, in a good way.

The gap months

Late winter gets honest about supply, that's when we lean on Canterbury growers and the Christchurch market for the gaps. We still design seasonal-first; the top-ups fill specific needs rather than replacing the local base. Nobody's bouquet is ever entirely imported unless they asked for that.