Flower-Grower ® features a flower farm collective of environmentally sustainable flower growers, plant farms, and foliage farms from around the globe, working together to grow seasonally fresh and top quality cut flowers, flowering plants, and foliage in the latest colors, varieties, and styles. An award-winning group of experienced and passionate flower growers and plant farmers committed to delivering the freshest, prettiest, largest, and longest lasting blooms.
Floriculture or Flower Farming
Within agriculture, floriculture, or flower farming, is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of cut flowers and ornamental flowering plants for landscape gardening and floristry sides of the floral industry. Flower farm crops include bedding plants, houseplants, flowering garden and pot plants, cut cultivated greens, and cut flowers.
Flower Farm: Growing for Market
Ornamental flowering plants are sold in pots for indoor use, and also for outdoor gardening. Cut flowers are usually sold in bunches or as bouquets with cut foliage. Flowers are a specialty crop and the business of a flower farm is more than just raising and selling fresh cut flowers. Other aspects of floriculture include harvest, post harvest treatment, cool storage, preservation, packaging, and transportation. There are many marketing opportunities available to flower growers: farmers markets, florists, supermarkets, garden nurseries, wholesalers, cash and carry, wedding planners, and online retailers.
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What is a Flower Farm?
A flower farm grows seasonally fresh and top quality cut flowers and ornamental plants in the latest colors, varieties, and styles. Experienced and passionate flower growers are committed to delivering the freshest, prettiest, largest, and longest lasting blooms. Floriculture is a $30 billion per year industry, with Europe and North America as the leading markets for cut flowers. The flower industry is a global and dynamic industry, facing constant challenges, the biggest being the perishable nature of the product.
Flower Farm Production
Historically centers of flower production have been close to markets and flower farms were abundant around the United States and Europe. But the early 1970’s began a trend of moving flower growing to countries where year-round climatic conditions are more favorable and where labor costs are lower. This move resulted in developing countries such as Colombia, Kenya, Ecuador, and Ethiopia becoming the new major centers of production. The Netherlands remains the largest producer and export of fresh cut flowers and plants.