Begininning LA Floral District
Local Japanese-American growers established the city’s first major flower market in 1912, the Southern California Flower Market.
The Original Los Angeles Flower Market was founded in 1919 as the American Florists’ Exchange by a group of 30 enterprising European-American growers.
In 1921, led by Tom Wright, the group officially incorporated themselves as the American Florists’ Exchange, Ltd., dba The Los Angeles Flower Market,
As L.A.’s two major flower markets grew and prospered in the early 1920s, they both relocated to more spacious quarters—across the street from each other—on the 700 block of South Wall Street.
Today,
Currently, The Original Los Angeles Flower Market’s 50 member/vendors offer more than 125 different varieties of cut flowers plus an impressive portfolio of related foliage and floral accessories.