Seasons

What's in season
in Perth right now

The market cheat sheet we use every week: what to buy each month, what's cheap because it's everywhere, and what to skip because it flew in from somewhere cold.

14 October 2026 8 min read By Mia Callaghan

Colourful seasonal flower bunches at a market stall

Spring in Perth (September to November)

Spring is the florist's Christmas, minus the stress. The market floods with ranunculus, sweet peas, anemones, freesias, and the first peonies if the season runs early. WA wildflowers hit their stride too: kangaroo paw, everlastings, waxflower from the hills.

Best value right now: ranunculus and freesias, cheap because everyone has them. Best flex: local peonies at the tail end of October, short window, worth it.

Peak: ranunculus, sweet pea, freesia, waxflower
Limited: early peonies, lilac (brief)
Skip: imported roses, still expensive before November

Summer (December to February)

Summer is survival season. Heat kills soft garden flowers fast, so we lean hard into things that can take it: sunflowers, zinnias, dahlias early, natives all the way through, and tropical lines like orchids and heliconias.

Hydrangeas do well early summer from the hills. By February we tell people honestly: buy natives or orchids, or expect half the vase life.

Peak: sunflowers, dahlias, natives, orchids
Value: zinnias, lisianthus
Skip: peonies (done), garden roses in heatwaves

The market doesn't care about your Pinterest board. Buy what's peaking and every bunch looks expensive.

Autumn and winter (March to August)

Autumn is quietly excellent: dahlias run late, disbuds arrive, tulips start, and roses hit their best quality of the year as nights cool. Winter brings hellebores, early tulips, jonquils and the best ranunculus prices of the year.

Winter is also when imported stock dominates, because local farms slow down. We'd rather tell you a rose flew in from Ecuador than pretend otherwise, and we mark local versus imported on request.

Peak: disbuds, hellebores, tulips, jonquils
Value: winter ranunculus, stock
Skip: sweet peas late winter, quality drops

Buckets of seasonal flowers at the market

5am at the market: buy what's flooding the floor

WA natives: the best value in the state most weeks

How to buy like a florist

Rule one: buy what's everywhere. Market gluts are your friend because quality is high and price is low. Rule two: ask what's local. Seasonal local flowers beat imported out-of-season ones on vase life every single time.

Rule three: trust the florist's-choice bunch in season. When we can pick from the best-value crates, you get more stems for the same money. Our same-day bunches are always built from that morning's market, whatever was best.

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