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Flower shops spring back to life ahead of Mother’s Day after state lifts restrictions - The Boston Globe

The luxury florist Winston Flowers reached peak capacity for Mother’s Day orders on Wednesday in Boston, Greenwich, Conn. and New York City, citing “changes in the supply chain and our commitment to following all safety and health guidelines by limiting our staff in order to keep their workspaces distant.” Any new orders for the holiday will be delivered the following week.Flower orders typically hitch rides in the cargo compartment of passenger planes, allowing for efficient travel at bargain prices. But with limited international passenger flights between the United States and flower powerhouses like the Netherlands, Colombia, and Kenya, there are very few cost-effective ways to ship flowers now, even when there is a demand.Advertisement“That is the latest battle. Can you even get the flowers on a plane? Usually, I can have any bulb flower from Holland within two days. Or a rose from South America,” said Jackie Levine, manager of Central Square Florist in Cambridge, which has been passed down in her family over four generations. “Those that came took a week.”figcaption class=" img_caption margin_horizontal_0--mobile margin_horizontal_0--... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/07/nation/after-months-empty-shelves-closed-shops-florists-spring-back-life-ahead-mothers-day-surge/

Florists face Mother's Day coronavirus quarantine challenges - Yahoo Finance

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A floral designer is beautifying the streets of New York with elaborate displays for health care workers - CNN

Lewis Miller Design, has long transformed the city's most grittiest spots into giant flower displays. He calls them "flower flashes." Miller said he just wanted to express his creativity and make New Yorkers smile. In recent weeks, however, he knew that these flower flashes could mean something more -- a tribute to those on the front lines."With the city being so desolate and people being stuck inside, and it being a cold, dismal spring, we needed hope," the 45-year-old designer told CNN. "Doing it for the health care workers was a no-brainer because they're the ones that are out there doing the deed while the rest of us are sequestered inside." For his latest flash, Miller and his team set out to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Monday and wrapped flowers in various shades of pink around a lamp post that stood outside the hospital. People admired it as they walked by, but even more appreciated it on Miller's Instagram. "New Jersey hospital worker here and I appreciate your commitment to making the city a more beautiful place," one person commented on Miller's post, which has over 17,000 likes. Like the rest of their flower flashes, Miller and his team didn't ask for permission so they were told by hospital security to take it down just 30 minutes after finishing their masterpiece. But the team quickly pivoted their plan to convert the flowers into bud vases and loose flowers to give out to the nurses, doctors and other health care workers passi... https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/24/us/new-york-flower-flash-displays-lewis-miller-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

Flowers Blooming, Customers Drying Up in Flower District - Spectrum News NY1

We are sending trucks with flowers outside the city. We are still operational and were just trying to keep it alive.  It's a very difficult environment right now,” said Natan Alpert, Co-Owner, New York Flower.“Everybody in this whole segment of the flower industry is involved from the grower, to the exporter, to the importer, which we are to the florists and the transporters in between,” said Cas Trap, Co-Owner, New York Flower Group.To try to survive, many of these wholesalers are trying to move their business online and beyond New York.“We are trying to promote more online ordering trying to send flowers maybe to your elderly neighbors that really can't go outside,” said Wit.“We figure the best thing is to deliver the flowers to the customers instead of the customers coming to us,” said Trap.Because at this point no one is showing up. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/03/19/flowers-blooming--customers-drying-up-in-flower-district