Where are the flowers you’re sending someone on Valentine’s Day coming from?

Henwood dealt with him so he walked away with flowers in hand.

With two balloons wrapped around his fingers and both arms hugging the arrangement, the Kapahi resident had difficulty unlocking his vehicle.

“We are concerned with hygiene and so when we need to mix food with plants, I normally will advise the customers not to have a complicated decoration”, she pointed out.

It’ll be one of the busiest holidays for florists, with a close second being Mother’s Day.

“Right now, we will have enough business that we can handle”.

“While it’s not unusual for customers to walk in at the very last minute, I’m not too confident about things this year, which makes it hard to decide on how much stock to take in for standby”.

Fortunately, most deliveries are to the workplace, he said. We tone it down.

Most of these flower shipments are grown in places like the Netherlands, the US, Ecuador and Colombia.

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“It’s very important because after getting through the month of January, which is typically slow for just about every business, it’s good to have this shot in the arm here”, he said. People are not home.

“We bring in lots of extra delivery people, designers, we make up things and we have things in the cooler ready to go, so that people can come in pick out what they want”, she said.

But now with the prices of roses expected to go up by at least 30 per cent or more, florists are left wondering how they would cope.

“Since our product is perishable we can not store it, so we have to be able to process it in a very short time window and have the infrastructure to cool and ship it”, says Gutt.

“You see everybody happy”.

Appleyard Flowers is selling a bouquet of pink avalanche roses, white lilies and eucalyptus with green bell for £26 with free next-day delivery. “You’re content, even though you’re exhausted”. But besides their sweet fragrance and vibrant colour, have you ever wondered where they come from? “We have chocolates, stuffed animals, orchids, tropicals for our tourist guests”.

Joey Kimbrough, owner of Kaleidoscope Florist and Designs in Florence, said Valentine’s Days that fall on a Tuesday or Wednesday are particularly challenging.

With Valentine’s Day being the biggest day of the year for the shop, Hogan has a message for customers for next year.

“Not only roses, but other flowers also took a heavy toll from the rather heavy rainfall”, he said. LATAM Cargo announced that it is transporting more than 160 million bouquets of flowers (around 9,000 tons) in the three weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day.

With a sign that reads “Gifts for Cat People” outside the door and hundreds of cat themed gifts inside – along with two cats roaming around – April’s Flowers may appear as more of a cat-themed gift store than a flower shop.

Holcomb also gave us a few tips on how to cut the cost when ordering flowers. “If you have got a pulse we will get you working”, owner Ryan Henwood says.