The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 million in all, grow the savanna outside Bogotá, summoned from the soil by 12 hours of natural sunlight, the 8,400-foot altitude and an abundance of cheap labor. Read more.
Amazon will start delivering groceries, including flowers, from Whole Foods via its two-hour Prime Now delivery service, the e-commerce giant announced Feb. 8. Customers in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach will be the first to get the service with Amazon...
UPS ramped up its global logistics network to deliver an estimated 88 million flowers in time for Valentine’s Day this year. According to a company release, UPS will handle more than 8 million pounds of blooms for U.S. consumers this year, enough to fill 64 wide-body...
June Van Wingerden, co-owner of Ocean Breeze Farms in Carpinteria, California, was recently elected chair of the California Cut Flower Commission. According to CCFC, Van Wingerden, who was named California’s Woman of the Year in 2005, “has been a constant force in...
The National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture (NICH) is asking all business and nonprofits engaged in horticulture for their input in a brief, three-minute survey to help grow the industry. The survey is designed to “measure the types of information used to run...
The Society of American Florists is the association that connects and cultivates a thriving floral community for: all participants of the U.S. floral industry and offers exciting benefits for the following types of businesses:
Each month, SAF member business and their teams enjoy the floral industry’s leading source for progressive business trends, shop management tactics, online marketing strategies, product quality and design trends and more.
The Sustainability Spotlight is a special edition of Floral Management showcasing the work of floral industry companies that have committed to environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
We believe it is important for you to know how we use cookies and personal information you may disclose to us. Please carefully review SAF's Opt-out preferences and Privacy Statement for more information on our use of cookies and personal data. If you continue to use the site, we'll assume you're OK with our practices.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Stay in the know! Sign up to receive text messages from SAF and we’ll deliver important news, announcements, special offers, and reminders straight to your phone. Opt out at any time!