Spring is coming

The truth of the matter is winter is getting ready to pack up and leave. It’s been a long four months for us, never before have I seen flower prices spike like they have this year. At times the roses have been more expensive than on Valentine’s Day, this is highly unusual. All our flowers are bought on auction so as the supply of flowers drops because of the cold weather the prices will rise as the demand remains fairly constant and wholesalers are willing to pay higher prices. What happened this year? Nobody seems to know, the quantity of flowers just wasn’t available and the variety very limited. This was also evident in the quality of flowers available, not the usual high standard for our flower market. This same principle of supply and demand is what drives flower prices up on Valentine’s Day, Spring Day, Secretaries Day and Mother’s Day.

Enough of economics 101, the good news is the change of season is here. Last week we bought Ranunculus, Freesias and Sweet peas … real spring flowers!  It’s so invigorating being able to create arrangements with bright colours and sweet fragrances, even the Chrysanthemums and Asters look so much better surrounded by their new friends.  As the weather warms up the market will be flooded with large quantities of wonderful  flowers and demand will drop after the first week of September,  we should be in for some great prices so save your “shekels “we’re about to have some fun again. 

  

Written by Jackie West-Evans owner of Country Flowers “living my dream”