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 of natural ...

FACATATIVA, Colombia — Oscar Martinez grows a Colombian crop with an addictive appeal, a major market share and a healthy profit margin. Not cocaine. Roses. Like Colombian coca, the plant that ...

Bob Mellano is supplying the flowers and foliage for 21 of the 39 Rose Parade floats. The Hearts rose is grown outside Bogotá in carefully controlled greenhouses.

The political party of former guerrilla group FARC has introduced the red rose to Colombia’s politics, abandoning communist for social democratic symbolism. Whether this means the FARC will be ...

Until recently, I wasn't the biggest fan of red roses either. As a florist, I've heard plenty of arguments against them: They have a big carbon footprint (most are flown in from Ecuador and Colombia).

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.

The roses that you buy this week from a florist, supermarket or website for Valentine's Day in all likelihood arrived in the United States through one place: Miami International Airport, the port ...

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.

“It’s a gorgeous rose, deep red, not black, just a very, very deep red,” said Scott Lamb, floral director for the float designer Artistic Entertainment Services.

Bob Mellano is supplying the flowers and foliage for 21 of the 39 Rose Parade floats. The Hearts rose is grown outside Bogotá in carefully controlled greenhouses.