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Fall never announces itself very loudly in Los Angeles. The beaches stay warm, the palms stay green, and sweater weather shows up fashionably late. But step inside our shop in Reseda in late summer and you can feel the season turn. The buckets fill with sunset oranges, harvest golds, and deep burgundies, and suddenly the Valley has autumn after all.
At Dottie’s Flowers, our family has been designing for Los Angeles since 1970, and fall is the season our designers wait for all year. Here is how to capture that warm, cozy spirit in your own home, even while the thermometer still says summer.
In most of the country, autumn arrives with frost and falling leaves. Here, it arrives as a feeling: shorter evenings, football weekends, and the first excuse to make something warm in the kitchen. Flowers are the fastest way to bring that feeling indoors. Swap a summer pastel arrangement for one in amber, rust, and wine, and a room turns cozy before you have lit a single candle.
The easiest fall palette to love in LA is the one in the sky every evening. Our San Fernando Sunsets arrangement was named for exactly that view, blending orange spray roses, golden yellows, and pink snapdragons into a warm gradient that bridges late summer and early fall beautifully.
Nothing says early autumn like a sunflower, and September in Southern California is prime time for them.
Our Sunny Daze design keeps it simple and striking, bold sunflowers with playful billy button accents in a two tone vase. For something with more color, Bright As Day surrounds those same sunflowers with red and orange roses and a jolt of purple stock.
Ask any of our designers for their favorite fall flower and most will say the dahlia. California grows some of the best in the world, and their peak season runs right through autumn.
You can see why in our Summer Spirit arrangement, where soft peach dahlias take center stage against spray roses and green bells of Ireland. As the season deepens, ask us about dahlias in richer rusts and reds.
Every fall arrangement needs a little depth, and burgundy is the season’s richest note.
Our Burgundy Island pairs wine colored cymbidium orchids with green hydrangea and trailing greenery, a moody, elegant design that feels made for a dinner table as the evenings turn cool.
A single warm toned arrangement changes a room, and a few placed thoughtfully change the whole house. Try sunset tones on the entry table where the light hits in the afternoon, sunflowers in the kitchen where mornings start, and something deep and burgundy on the dining table for slow autumn dinners. Because our arrangements are hand designed and delivered fresh the same day, you can refresh a room on a whim.
Bright As Day brings sunflowers, red and orange roses, and purple stock together in one glowing centerpiece.
Verano runs hotter, with pink roses, orange pincushion proteas, and green cymbidiums for the friend whose fall wardrobe is still bright.
Heart and Soul leans classic, red roses and berry toned accents that suit the season straight through the holidays.
You do not need falling leaves to feel the season, just the right flowers on the table. Browse our bestsellers, stop by our Reseda shop, or call Dottie’s Flowers at 818-996-2603. Order by 3 PM on weekdays and your fall arrangement can be delivered the same day, anywhere across Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.
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