Unless you have the perfect conditions for proteas (plenty of sunshine, dry summers, and fast-draining soil), enjoying the blooms as cut flowers is your best bet. Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers, in Rainbow, California (pictured, resendizbrothers.com), is currently wholesale only, but is slated to launch The Protea Store for retail orders of Protea along with Banksia, Grevillea, Leucadendron, Leucospermum, and others by early 2015. Western farmers who sell to the public: Rainbow Protea (rainbowprotea.com), also in San Diego County, and Kula Farm Flowers (kulafarm.com), on Maui.