Cut flower

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Cut flowers are flowers that are grown and marketed for use in arrangements , as a bouquet , bouquet, etc. Cut flowers are used for decoration and as a gift on special occasions.

Use of cut flowers

The art and craft of harmoniously arranging cut flowers is one area of floristry .

With good care, cut flowers will last a few days. In order to keep cut flowers from quickly wilting , they are placed with their stems in a water-filled container, usually in buckets until they are sold, and usually in a vase at the end customer . To further increase the shelf life, measures such as fresh cutting of the stems, inclined cutting of the stems, storage at the ideal temperature, and the addition of freshness-retaining agents , especially sugar , to the water. Wilting can be significantly delayed by adding small amounts of Sildenafil citrate ( Viagra ) to the water. In addition, specially preserved flowers are sold, which can be preserved with glycerine, for example. For this purpose, especially roses , liquid is withdrawn and added again in the form of glycerine . Flowers treated in this way have a shelf life of up to three years.

Other uses of cut flowers include the flower garlands popular in India .

  • A wedding bouquet with roses, hydrangeas and Zantedeschias ("Calla")

  • A bouquet of tone on tone with roses and gerbera

  • A colorful bouquet of cut flowers

  • Flower garland for Diwali festival

  • Solitaire

trade

The world market for cut flowers had a volume of about seven billion US dollars in 2000. The largest exporter of cut flowers is the Netherlands - in 2011 the Netherlands exported cut flowers and potted plants worth 5.243 billion euros, an increase of 1.9 percent compared to 2010. Follow on the squares

  • Colombia ,
  • Israel , with an export of around 5,000 tons of flowers to European countries alone
  • Ecuador , which exported plants worth $ 586 million in 2010
  • Kenya with an export of about 60,000 tons of flowers annually and
  • Spain .

The world's largest importer of cut flowers is Germany - 30 percent of the plants produced in the Netherlands are sold to Germany.

Sales in the overall market for cut flowers and house plants as well as bedding and balcony plants, perennials and woody plants in Germany amounted to 8.6 billion euros in 2011. Cut flowers alone accounted for 35.6 percent of sales (EUR 3.06 billion). In the past few years in particular, sales in online flower delivery have increased . Every year online florists earn more than 300 million euros by sending cut flowers. According to Statista, flowers and DIY products were already among the top 10 product groups in German e-commerce in 2012. In 2013 alone, 1.4 million Germans planned to send cut flowers over the Internet on Mother's Day.

The Fleurop system is the largest "mediation service" for cut flowers in Germany. Here, orders from customers are placed with legally independent and mostly owner-managed flower shops near the recipient.

Organizations such as the Association of German Flower Wholesalers and Importers (BGI) or the Holland Flower Office take on the marketing of the industry and represent the interests of cut flower dealers (and potted plant dealers) in Germany.

criticism

Both the working conditions and the ecological effects of intensive flower production have drawn criticism. In May 2011, for example, the magazine Ökotest found a high level of pesticide contamination in cut flowers from conventional trade. Up to 20 different phytosanitary poisons per bouquet were found. This criticism led to the creation of the Flower Label Program (FLP), through which socially and ecologically compatible flowers should be labeled in the trade (see also Fair Trade ). The program did not achieve commercially viable dissemination and is no longer active. The label Fair Flowers Fair Plants (FFP) also wanted to stand for sustainable production and the avoidance of pesticides . This program, too, could not achieve sustainable demand and ceased work in 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judy Siegel-Itzkovich: Viagra makes flowers stand up straight . In: British Medical Journal . tape 319 , no. 7205 , July 31, 1999, p. 274 , PMC 1126921 (free full text).
  2. ↑ What are Infinity Roses? https://infinity-rosen.de/ . Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  3. ↑ http://taspo.de/aktuell/produktion/schnittblumen/detail-schnittblumen/beitrag/32211-niederlande- Pflanzen-export-mit-leichtem- plus.html
  4. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article599414/Blumen-aus-dem-Gazastreifen.html
  5. ↑ http://latina-press.com/news/70540-ecuador-ist-weltweit-der-drittgroesste-exporteur-von-blumen/
  6. ↑ http://www.wwf.de/liebesgruesse-aus-kenia/
  7. ↑ http://taspo.de/aktuell/produktion/schnittblumen/detail-schnittblumen/beitrag/32211-niederlande- Pflanzen-export-mit-leichtem- plus.html
  8. ↑ Sales in the overall flowers and plants market in Germany from 2005 to 2011 (in billion euros). In: Statista . 2014, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Sales of cut flowers and houseplants in Germany from 2008 to 2011 (in billion euros). In: Statista . 2014, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Three million Germans order flowers on the Internet. (No longer available online.) In: BITKOM . May 7, 2009, archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; Retrieved November 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bitkom.org
  11. ↑ This is what Germans buy online. In: Statista . February 28, 2014, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  12. ↑ For Mother's Day the flowers come from the web. In: BITKOM . May 8, 2014, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  13. ↑ http://www.oekotest.de/cgi/index.cgi?artnr=97714;bernr=01;co=
  14. ↑ Christian Gehrke: Seal for ecological and fair flowers at the end; FLOWER LABEL PROGRAM Organizations and trade unions terminate their membership - the daily newspaper , January 9, 2012, p. 8
  15. ↑ The Flower Label Program eV (FLP) is no longer active. Flower Label FLP website, accessed April 23, 2015.
  16. ↑ fair flowers fair plants. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 : "In the years just before 2018 it got clear that it was very difficult to create a large enough market for the label. For the florists there was no sufficiently wide range of Fair Flowers Fair Plants products and too large a number of growers did not participate because of low demand. Unfortunately, Fair Flowers Fair Plants stopped at the end of 2017. "