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05/04/21 Flower farmers

It's been roller coaster for the flower trade over the past year. The loss of wedding and hospitality business has cost dearly, but there's been a big increase in online sales.

Flower growers have had a tough year. When the pandemic struck, lockdown cost them all their wedding and hospitality business, but there was a big surge in online sales, and with Brexit, renewed interest in home-grown flowers. Flowers from the Farm, a network of British flower producers and suppliers say their membership鈥檚 gone up by 25% since the start of lockdown, to more than a thousand members.

Over the past year, some businesses have struggled to cope with the demand for flowers, others have reduced the amount they've been planting. Some nurseries laid people off, other growers couldn't recruit enough pickers.

We talk to farmers, wholesalers and nurseries to find out how they鈥檝e fared over the past 12 months.

Produced and presented by Rebecca Rooney

11 minutes

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  • Mon 5 Apr 2021 05:45

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