2nd Quarter 2010 Floral Wholesale Distributor Sales

In the first six months of 2010 floral wholesale distributors, as a group, were down 3.4% in sales according to the WF&FSA Benchmarks Report.

Add Height & Dimension To Product Presentation With FFR-DSI’s New Display/Filler Cube

August 17, 2010 FFR-DSI, Inc.

Add height and dimension to product presentation with FFR-DSIs new Display/Filler Cube. Increase selling space while keeping product off the floor.

Wet Year Washes Out Washington Flower Farms

August 16, 2010 Jason Bacaj, Seattle Times

A sunny start to April led the Hmong flower growers of King and Snohomish counties to an early planting of asters, sunflowers, zinnias and their best cash crop, dahlias. Then the cold rains of May and June came, saturating 720 acres of fields and rotting many bulbs and tubers.

Mystery Orchid One Of Showiest Herbs

There are thousands of orchid species. In fact, botanists generally consider this to be the largest plant family, with more than 30,000 different species. This is a bewildering number of organisms and suggests there are plenty of evolutionary pathways being “tried out” within the family.

Column: Sunflowers, Seeds Have Multiple Uses

The common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is a North American native and makes a great fall display.