The flower seller in Melbourne Jane Marx, the founder of the delivery service on the same day, is preparing to send more than 1000 bouquets on Mother’s Day. Each arrangement will be brilliantly wrapped-the sweet peas of pastel color, peach lily-from a farmer in Victoria. “Because the best flowers are the flowers that grow up to you,” she says.
“We are lucky enough to get a lot of diversity in Victoria,” says Marx. “Our customers trust that everything we put in our arrangements is the best in the season, but unfortunately this is not reflected on a wider scale in the flower of flower.”
It is estimated that only 50 % of the flowers purchased in Australia are grown here, according to the flower industry in Australia. CEO Anna Gabor says that the percentage turns again during peak times. “There is a flow of imported flowers, mainly because the main supermarkets buy a large amount of imported flowers for periods like Mother’s Day,” she says.
Although all the flowers that are sold in supermarkets are not imported, Gabor says that there is no mandatory country of authentic origin of the cut flowers in Australia. This makes it difficult for customers to make an enlightened option. “We believe that if society realizes that all flowers are not grown here, they will choose the Australians,” she says.
Although flowers are an expensive purchase – where bouquets are often divided with more than $ 100 – flowers say they often buy a motivation. This means that shoppers do not always make enlightened decisions about quality.
Flowers are imported to meet the demand for the year on popular varieties such as roses, which are usually brought from Colombia and Ecuador.
Imports are not necessarily cheaper, and have additional costs. Gabor says that there is a high quality cost, because they underwent evaporation and other chemical treatments. “The flowers that are imported to Australia are volatile with methyl bromide and are immersed in glephos,” she says. The flowers cultivated abroad also bear an environmental cost, as they traveled by plane or ship, and a social cost, due to its poorest Work conditions for workers.
Sydney Sarah Reagan, who runs the delivery service on the same day, is committed to selling 95 % of the Australian flowers for these reasons. “With local flowers, you get better quality, better freshness, no less transit times and ecosystem,” she says.
“We consider imports the last absolute resort,” she says. “It is part of our responsibility as business owners to help educate people – in a nice way.”
The Beautiful Bunch, which employs refugee backgrounds, has a commitment to selling 95 % Australian flowers as well. “We have a social effect included in the work we do, so buying import is not appropriate,” says Marx.
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Janae Paquin-Bowden, which runs a small flower farm, noticed Fleurs De Lyonville, in the Modon Ranges area in Victoria with her husband, Chris, this shift. “In the Melbourne Market for farmers, we have flowers from flowers who come to us now to say they are only [buy] Australian cultivated flowers. We hadn’t had this 10 years ago. “
Gabor says that Cuban, lily, poppy and sunflower are some of the Australian flowers that have grown in this Mother’s Day. “They are really beautiful flowers with many characters.”
“Visit local flower sellers and specifically ask the Australian flowers,” she says. “The supermarkets are avoided.”
To get an affordable alternative, search for local farmers in farmers’ markets and ask for what is in the season.
Chrysanthemums opens naturally before Mother’s Day, and for this reason they are closely related to history. This contains the word “mom”. “April-May is the natural flowering period, so it is easy to grow at this time of the year,” says Aldou Fumaka, who only grows at Chrysanthemums.
Vumbaca says that White is the most popular color, followed by pink and pastel. Recently, the flower sellers also asked “autumn colors – orange, brown and sunset colors,” he says.
In Little Flowers, Resan sells a mixture of legs that were purchased on that morning from its network of farmers in the SYDNEY Flower Market market. “I buy from people who worked on flowers for generations. There is clay in the bucket.
It also sells collective seasonal flowers collectively – such as an elegant lily of Victoria, and Bushle from the bright sunflowers that are grown in the southern highlands in New South Wales, and a stock of Sydney, known as the distinctive smell of mustard.
“The first thing you do is to bury your nose in it as soon as you receive flowers,” says Marx, who also sells sweet peas, local roses, roses and orange on Mother’s Day.
“Often, you do not have the flowers that have been imported and treated a smell,” says Chris Bakin Bodin.
Vumbaca says it is not completely against imported flowers, but it is noticed that they have longer issues. “You are fighting for three days from an imported day,” he says. On the basis of 35 minutes of Markets Sydney Flower, his company, commercial flowers, cut and sell flowers within one day. “We actually guarantees anything up to three weeks of life on our intersections.”
If you are buying in the season, the domestic flowers usually last for about a week, says Marx. “It will be a superior product, for example, the vase of Tulips is important, because they are in the season. We sell foreign lily women, not the roses collectively, because this is what we can get a lot at the present time.”
She says the best thing for customers to do is support flower sellers that buy locally. Second: “Look at the most sensitive flowers – like Sweet Pea, Stock and Violet – where it is almost impossible to import,” she says.
“Look at what you cannot imagine will stay on a plane,” Marx suggests. “Also, if it does not grow in your street, it is likely to be imported.”