Roger BoddaertSpecial to Valley NewsThe flower season has just started to bloom at the Carlsbad flower fields and this is going to be a record year with over 80 million stems of this Asiatic little bulb, being grown in the sandy soils on 50 acres of a working flower farm facing the Pacific Ocean off to the west.Over 100 years ago, the growing of the ranunculus flowers began with Luther Gage, an early settler and horticulturist that settled in Carlsbad in the 1920’s.Mr. Gage loved Carlsbad and grew the elegant tall gladiolus flowers for the Los Angeles flower wholesale market. Another local farmer Frank Frazee joined forces with Gage and the two men joined the lucrative flower adventure.The Paul Ecke family of Poinsettia fame owns the property, and they brought in the
