News » 05.09.2025 - Latvia: Rainy summer impacts local flower growers

Generations change, but the tradition of bringing flowers to school on 1 September remains the same. The rainy summer has also had a negative impact on local flower growers, and shops are replacing home-grown flowers with those grown abroad, Latvian Radio reports.

"I can't imagine 1 September without gladioli; asters and sunflowers are the top flower too, but now they also bring bouquets a lot and now they also bring hydrangeas on 1 September because it's such an expensive flower, it's gorgeous, big and everyone wants to stand out with their flower," says Kristine Genēviča, manager of the Rīga flower salon "Karkade". The gladioli sold in the shop are grown in greenhouses in Holland.

"Local ones are grown outside, they will rot. The roses are mostly Ecuadorian, we get them from Holland. On Monday at lunchtime they are stacked in the car and by Wednesday morning they are in my salon. From Africa, from Ecuador, a little bit longer there, a day longer, everything goes through Holland. They are flown to Holland and then dropped off, yes," says Genēviča.

According to the Central Statistical Bureau, the Netherlands imported the most flowers this year until June, with €17.8 million, followed by Poland with €2.4 million. It should also be noted that flowers grown all over the world end up in the Netherlands, which then go on to all of Europe, with roses grown in Africa being the most popular.
 

 

Source: www.floradlaily.com

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