For these more dazzling players—the orchids, the roses, the lilies—the ... I had stopped in the Netherlands, the world's largest exporter of cut flowers. I asked Lanning to try to explain ...

Today, the country is the world’s second-largest exporter of cut flowers ... the United States produced 1.2 billion blooms of the major flowers (roses, carnations and chrysanthemums) and ...

told through eight everyday products. For more than 200 years, the heart of the global trade in cut flowers has been the Netherlands. The world’s largest global auction for flowers began ...