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Aalsmeer Flower Auction

Aalsmeer is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands and the home to the largest flower auction in the world. Aalsmeer Flower Auction, with its 990,000 m2 of floor space is the world’s third largest building. Approximately 20 million flowers are sold in this building every auction day. The countries where the majority of […]

Visit to the Wholesaler :: San Francisco Flower Mart

One of my favorite parts of being a floral designer is visiting the wholesalers. I love seeing piles & piles of flowers and rows & rows of buckets filled with fresh blooms. I love the mass quantities of flowers, the colors, the scents, the textures. I feel like a kid in the candy store. One […]