Colombian Flowers Ready for the World

On February 5, 2013 Asocolflores announced through the Colombian business newspapers that their flowers were ready to be ship. As mentioned on the previous blog, Colombia was distributing around 500 million of flowers for St. Valentine's Day, an amount that makes Colombia as the second exporter of flowers in the world.
Augusto Solano, president of Asocolflores said that from the total of flowers planted in Colombia 97% goes to other countries. Of this 97%, United States gets 76%, Russia 5%, Japan 4%, and England 3%.
Colombia has consolidated in recent decades as the second largest exporter of flowers with a presence of 16% in the global market after Holland.
Well, I hope all the ladies get to enjoy some gorgeous Colombian flowers tomorrow, and I hope you have a better understanding on how meaningful flowers can be, not only for the ones receiving them, but also for those that planted the seed in the ground.