flowers and bouquets in the south of France

Hello, everyone!

I am helping an author whose work involves a movie star named Rosemary who is visiting the south of France between 1925 and 1929. Her life is greatly affected by flowers. She visits a lavish hotel there and there flower arrangements around the hotel and in her hotel room. Do any of you know what she may find? I'm not sure how big the floral industry was back then and/or how readily available certain flowers were. I was thinking since she is rich and the hotel is pretty up-scale, there would be things that would be "hard" to take care of (ie: things that needed fussing over) or very exotic for that time. For example, I would think she would find orchids, either in pots or in vases; gingers or similar tropical flowers; birds of paradise. Please let me know if you have any insights about what might had been around back then.

Thank you much!
Bridget

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Bridget Lamp
Horticulturist/Museum Scientist
Mediterranean and Eastern North America
University of California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, Ca 94720
(510) 642-3812
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