Today, I wanted to feel good about buying flowers. Flowers smell good, look good, and I want them to be great gifts. As I am being more intentional about my green thinking , I did think about house plants but again here you don’t know if the recipient wants another thing to take care of. Even if it is cleaning the air they breathe, they might have many other plants and possibly human beings and animals maybe reptiles to take care of. Yes maybe birds and insects too. In conclusion of this paragraph, fresh-cut -flowers are what I am curious about.
My assumption is that there has to be a path to a sustainable way to grow flowers. I can imagine that the best scenario is fresh cut flowers from my own garden. I did find Flowers from the Farm and I can see the passion in the UK for flowers. I will definitely want to look for nearby farmers in my area to source flowers from or learn from. For the most recent purchase, I went with the online shop of Fleur De Luxe. The web site was so tidy and organised and easy to use and worked great on mobile. I wanted to support that effort they made. I liked being able to schedule delivery well in advance and that worked very well.
I found evidence to confirm that flowering plants provide a lot of benefits. I felt comfortable inferring that selling the output of those flowering plants was a positive celebration of that benefit. I felt then if I can then put the plants into my garden to decompose then that is also a positive. I can continuously improve the supply chain of flowers to my house looking at each step, and I am curious to do so.
Link from usda.gov listing benefits of flowering plants.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/wildflowers/pollinators/importance#:~:text=Flowering%20plants%20help%20to%20purify,it%20falls%20to%20the%20earth.