Like Colombian coca, the plant that produces 90% of the cocaine on U.S. streets, Colombian roses have come to dominate the U.S. market. ... U.S. customers prefer bright red roses.

The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 million in all, grow here, the savanna outside Bogotá, Colombia, summoned from the soil by 12 hours ...

Lamb watched as St. Clair cut the stem of each Heart at a 45-degree angle and added them to a lavish arrangement of brighter red roses, bird of paradise leaves, palm fans, steel grass and red dogwood.

Last year, I received five dozen red roses for Valentine's Day. They were from me. I am a florist in San Francisco, and I couldn't sell as many as I had expected. Even in the most romantic city in ...

Valentine’s is a frantic export period; Colombia is expecting to send 450 million flowers to the US, which gets 65 percent of its roses from Colombia. And it’s a race against time, as growers hold out ...

The rose industry in Colombia has taken off, thanks to a U.S. effort to disrupt cocaine trafficking, expanded free-trade agreements — and the demand by U.S. consumers for cheap roses.

Colombia — the world’s second-largest flower exporter after the Netherlands — ships up to 1,000 different types of flowers, including exotic orchids, but the rose is the undisputed queen.

News; Nation/World; Roses are red, violets are blue, through Miami’s airport yours probably flew Feb. 13, 2024 Updated Tue., Feb. 13, 2024 at 6:21 p.m. Workers handle bouquets of flowers in the ...