Title: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Caused a Flower Shortage - FTD.com
Headings: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Caused a Flower Shortage
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Caused a Flower Shortage
Large Supply Without Demand
Transportation Issues
Poor Weather Conditions Results in Low Flower Inventory
Can I Still Get Flowers?

Content: Unfortunately, 2020 and 2021 has been a poor growing season in many parts of the world that supply retailers with their flowers. South America, in particular, has experienced a colder, rainier growing season that resulted in reduced crop yields, especially for roses and carnations. Unfortunately, this weather trend brought on by La Nina is expected to continue these adverse growing conditions and still make projected flower yields smaller than usual. While flower growers and farmers alike have always had to deal with poor crop yields after a particularly harsh growing season, they at least had consistent demand for their product. After the pandemic has caused so many growers to lose huge amounts of their crop due to weather and decreased demand and subsequent loss of farms, it’s going to take a while for the world’s collective supply of flowers being grown to catch up to where it was in 2019. Can I Still Get Flowers? The good news is that flower growers are still fighting to keep their farms alive, and shipping availability is getting better worldwide as more businesses open to a fuller capacity. It’s likely you may have difficulty finding certain types of flowers that suffered from last year’s poor growing season, as well as face delayed delivery and increased flower prices. Don’t worry you can order flowers from FTD, we will do our best to keep our florists operating to get flowers to your doorstep.