Walking the 3-acre nursery in Canyon Country on Tuesday morning, Mario Galvez gently picked at drooping calla lilies and crispy geraniums.

Eliot and Missy Elliott, lacrosse and basketball, buggin' out and Sturm und Drang, pumpkin soup and BBQ spare ribs, and generally whipping up a rich unibrow mix of doo rags, private schools, collard greens, blazers, hoodies, Bill Clinton, rap music, Basquiat, ya mama jokes, Harlem redstones, violin adagios, housing projects, three-story colonials, baggy jeans, Dostoyevsky, graffiti, and flaming calla lilies.

Queeley gets weekly shipments of alliums, calla lilies, and Gerbera daisies from Holland, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Asia, where exotics grow year-round so price isn't usually driven by demand surpassing supply.