The Life & Death of a Rose
The Irish Times - Tuesday, September 6, 2011 A flower picked in Africa today will land in your local florist on Friday. How? PETER CLUSKEY visits a Dutch flower market to see a multi-billion euro industry in action IT’S KNOWN as the Wall Street of the global flower market: an extraordinary series of five high-octane daily auctions where an average of 45 million flower stems and 4.5 million pot plants are sold every morning – turning over €9.9 million a day, 245 days a year. W