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Where to Buy
Preferred Gardens is stocked at 455 licensed dispensaries across California, New York, and 4 other states, 171 of them in California, with the deepest coverage in Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach, and San Jose. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one, or filter by product type if you are after a specific format.
Market Insights Snapshot
In July 2026, Preferred Gardens remained heavily concentrated in Flower at 92.36% share, with Flower sales up 32.57% year over year but down 5.05% month over month, while Pre-Roll held 4.96% share with a 112.32% year-over-year gain yet a 32.11% month-over-month decline. Vapor Pens accounted for 2.50% share with a 41.54% year-over-year contraction and a 46.13% month-over-month drop, and Edible contributed 0.18% share with limited recent signal; paired with a 6.17% average price increase to $33.33 and a Flower average price of $36.70, the mix indicates demand elasticity concentrated in core Flower while peripheral formats are volatile. The pattern implies the July 2026 category mix is over-indexed to a single engine that is growing annually but softening sequentially, setting up a near-term risk that month-over-month pullbacks in secondary formats could outweigh year-over-year momentum unless Flower’s July dip reverses.
Positioning-wise, Preferred Gardens is effectively a Flower-first brand in CA, carrying a Flower rank of 40 in New York that underscores limited out-of-state traction and signaling a need to convert July 2026’s 32.57% Flower year-over-year growth into steadier month-over-month performance to stabilize share. With Pre-Roll delivering a 112.32% year-over-year surge but a 32.11% month-over-month drawdown and Vapor Pens down 41.54% year over year and 46.13% month over month, the brand’s differentiation currently skews toward premium-priced Flower rather than breadth; the implication is that sustaining growth requires either smoothing Pre-Roll volatility or leaning into Flower pricing power without amplifying the 5.05% month-over-month softness.
Competitive Landscape
Preferred Gardens sits at rank #43 in California Flower in July 2026, improving 31 positions year over year from #74, and climbing 15 spots since April 2026 when it was #58; this marks a peak rank of #43 in July 2026 while the category leader STIIIZY moved from #2 to #1 with 59.7% YoY sales growth, and CAM rose from #4 to #3 with 52.2% YoY growth. Compared with Claybourne Co., which slipped from #3 to #5 and posted a -1.4% YoY sales change, Preferred Gardens’ rank trajectory suggests a mid-pack ascent driven by recent momentum rather than category-wide lift at the top, implying continued share capture is plausible if the 31-rank YoY improvement can be sustained.
Notable Products
Blue Caviar (3.5g) posted the steepest movement in July 2026 with a -13.7% month-over-month slide that coincided with a rank of 9, while Crunch Berries (3.5g) rose 15.7% MoM to hold rank 1; this divergence implies demand is consolidating at the top of the lineup rather than spreading evenly. Glacier (3.5g) advanced 11.3% MoM at rank 2 as Blue Dream (3.5g) climbed 23.3% MoM at rank 5, and eight of the top ten are Flower SKUs, indicating the brand’s mix is concentrated in a single category with momentum skewed toward premium eighths. With Durban Poison (3.5g) down 8.8% MoM at rank 10 alongside Blue Caviar’s -13.7%, while the lead SKU booked $62,206, the pattern points to portfolio pruning potential around underperforming variants as Preferred Gardens leans into fast-rising core strains.
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Data for this report comes from real-time sales reporting by participating cannabis retailers via their point-of-sale systems, which are linked up with Headset’s business intelligence software. Headset’s data is very reliable, as it comes digitally direct from our partner retailers. However, the potential does exist for misreporting in the instance of duplicates, incorrectly classified products, inaccurate entry of products into point-of-sale systems, or even simple human error at the point of purchase. Thus, there is a slight margin of error to consider. Brands listed on this page are ranked in the top twenty within the market and product category by total retail sales volume.
