"US: Wholesalers weigh in on "tight market" for Mother's Day"
Pam Uranga, purchasing director of Mayesh Wholesale Florist, headquartered in Los Angeles, said “roses always seem to be fairly tight for Mother’s Day,” and they were again this year. More surprising, she said, was the fact that “items like carnations and minis hit a few weeks early, so production was really tight, and continues to be so” as of early June.
Uranga noted that that some California crops, including snaps, also hit early, but, she added, “the nice thing about Mother’s Day is … customers are willing to use something else. Without having such an intense focus on one flower, i.e. the rose at Valentine’s Day, and so many beautiful options, it’s not so painful when a few things are tight.”
In Chicago, Gustavo Gilchrist, president of Kennicott Brothers, another member of the Wholesalers Council, said it was a “good holiday overall, with tight supply, specially on carnations and some poms.”
Steve Catando, purchasing manager of DV Flora, headquartered in Sewell, New Jersey, said “cloudy, damp” days around Bogotá, Colombia, “had negative effects on flowers and flower growers” creating challenges in terms of quality, supply and prevention of botrytis.
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