Most of Your Flowers Come From....

Colombia's national flower (Orchid)

I have been living in the United Sates since 2008. The same year I met my love, who is now my fiancé. He has been spoiling me since then; I have been getting flowers almost every two weeks. I am from Colombia; not Illinois, not South Carolina, not anywhere in the states, but South America. By being from Colombia, I was never curious about where my flowers come from since there are many flowers year around at home.

However, I started to think about where the flowers in United States come from, or at least most of them, knowing that my country has the most beautiful flowers. After a simple investigation to the closest flower shop, I found out that most of these flowers come from my beautiful country, Colombia. Asocolflores, the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters is in charge of bringing color to United States. According to the trade between Colombia and United States, three out of every four flowers sold in the U.S. are grown in Colombia, making it the number one exporter of flowers to the U.S.

Asocolflores last report was about a year ago and it was surprising to me. I knew we were a large flower exporter, but not among the top three worldwide. Flowers, of course after coffee, are Colombia's second leading agriculture export, distributed to 89 countries, making Colombia the number two exporter worldwide of flowers. Asocolflores is a non-profit corporation which has been exporting since 1973 looking to share color, love and passion with the world through its flowers.

I am a big patriot; therefore my flowers need to be from Colombia. My fiancé needs to keep bringing me flowers, but he better make sure they come from Colombia, especially knowing how hard the Asocolflores farmers work daily to bring smiles to woman worlwide. We all deserve quality and lovely flowers once in a while! :)