It’s hard to talk seasons when discussing Southern California. After all, the running joke is that we only have one. But there’s something about spring here. The city feels like it was made for these months. There’s a certain buzz in the air. Spring is when everything comes alive here — especially the flowers.
Los Angeles County has some of the world’s most fertile soil. In the early 1900s, we held the distinction of being the No. 1 agricultural county in the entire nation. The flower district in Downtown Los Angeles today remains a strong echo of that agricultural past.
But much has changed since the Southern California Flower Market and the Original Los Angeles Flower Market opened their doors on Wall Street in the early 1900s to create the flower district in Los Angeles.
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