Our favorite Northern California growers, this spring.

Spring in Northern California starts in the cold storage at the growers — four or five small farms we buy from on rotation, depending on what opened that week. The cooler is the clearest calendar we keep in the studio.

This week it is ranunculus from a grower in Wilton, anemones from a small plot in Winters, late tulips from a family operation in Herald, and the first garden roses from an orchard west of Davis. The eucalyptus is local; the lisianthus is still shipping from the coast.

If you are ordering this week, you will likely see those stems. We do not publish a weekly menu because the cooler decides — but if you have a palette in mind, tell us. Most weeks we can work to it.

A few places to know if you are paying attention to the season: the California Flower Mall when you want to shop the farmers yourself, the smaller grower-collectives for shared-bench cuts, and the Davis Farmers Market on Saturday mornings for stems from the small end of the spectrum.

Spring is short. We take orders for Mother's Day beginning April 24 — the earlier you book, the more we can tune a palette for the day.