Kendra Paulding, Program Coordinator
 Floral Displays for Arroyo Grande include flowering annuals and perennials found throughout the city. The Floral Displays team collaborates on three plantings every year. Within these plantings, we plant to convey the season (combinations of white, blue, and red for winter; pink, yellow, white for spring; orange, yellow, bronze for autumn), and compliment the City’s seasonal decorations, banners, and events. The team selects plants that will thrive in our Mediterranean climate with vast temperature and humidity swings.
Watering of the containers is completed by a floral team member with cooperation and support from the City of Arroyo Grande and the Village Improvement Association. AG Floral Displays uses all organic integrated pest management and organic fertilizers to maintain the health and beauty of the plants.
Each autumn, the team sits down and selects plants for each planting for the following year. The plant requests are then sent to our corporate sponsor, Pan American Seed Company, in Guadalupe, CA., a subsidiary company of Ball Horticultural Company, and grown out to 4” size and planted by the team in locations throughout Arroyo Grande. Floral Displays are predominantly found in the Historic Village in hanging baskets and containers along Branch and Bridge Streets.
 Business owners have the option of an annual rental of floral containers in lovely ceramic pots.
Plants that are featured in the containers and suitable for landscape are included in the many areas of landscape within Arroyo Grande, including park and city entry sign flower beds.
Collaboration and volunteerism have made our efforts successful. Girl Scouts, civic groups, businesses, 4H, and religious groups have all contributed their time to make Arroyo Grande the best it can be.
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