Floral

The Herb Society of America has chosen Monarda Fistulosa, commonly known as “bee balm”, as the 2013 Notable Native Herb of the Year, and has selected The Growers Exchange as the official grower and distributor of the herb. …

Exquisite floral treats will await visitors to the Lake Bluff Farmer’s Market every Friday morning from 7 a.m. to noon beginning June 8 and running through October. As usual, flowers and plants will be offered for sale by Lake Bluff resident Kathryn Leider whose husband Mark is president and general manager of the family owned Leider Greenhouses and Garden Center in Buffalo Grove. …

USA Bouquet Co.'s processing plant in Doral was a beehive of activity Thursday. Flowers flown in from Colombia and Ecuador are brought in boxes from Miami International Airport in refrigerated trucks. Workers then sort the flowers and put them into bouquets. …

This Mother's Day, more than 50 million flowers and plants will be purchased as gifts for mothers, wives and daughters across the United States, and an increasing percentage of these will be certified as sustainably grown. …

The path that leads from Colombia’s flower fields to a Miami Mother’s Day bouquet begins in Gerardo Diaz’s hands as he grafts a rose variety to a hardier stem. In about eight months, the bud will bloom in one of the sprawling greenhouses of the Flores Alianza farm on the outskirts of Bogotá and be ready for export. …