Colombia: "Making bouquets has become one of our strengths now"

At 40 ha farm Inverpalmas , roses , carnations and spray carnations are being grown on two location ( 30 ha and 10 ha ) , both in the Savanna Savannah of Bogota , near Colombia ’s capital . They ’ve also been making bouquets on postulation for quite some geezerhood , but over the last days , they ’ve take up to promote it more . grant to Jose Enrique Gutierrez , making bouquets has become one of their military posture now . " We can make all kind of bouquets " , he aver .

Jose Enrique Gutierrez , Sales & Marketing Services at Inverpalmas with the rose Lemonade . During theProfloraweek , earlier this month , the squad of FloralDaily.com visited the Inverpalmas site in Tenjo , Cundinamarca .

The US is their main grocery store for their hand - tie bouquets and rules of order to make the corsage , they expend their own flowers which are carnation , spray carnations and rosiness . " That ’s the advantage of growing 3 products , we can already make different designs of bouquets . " When requested , they buy makeweight and jet from other farm . The bouquets are assembled in the office harvest home domain in several ways .

Bouquets being made at the farm of Inverpalmas

For the more complex abide fragrance with several varieties , a special mold is being used in which each flower is put in separately and when taking it out , it is perverted and can stand on its own .

Inverpalmas also supplies square lot of all varieties . The rosiness mainly go to the US , around 80 pct and the carnations and spray carnations mainly go to Asia and Europe , around 60 percentage , and around 40 pct to the USA .

pink wine - shorter stemsInverpalmas grows rose on 15 ha . Their independent market used to be Russia , to which they supplied 80 and 90 cm stems . However , when the crisis hit this country , they started to focus on different market and saw a requirement for shorter stem varieties in the US . " We decide to modify the farm to become more productive . Now , we grow 50 - 60 curium stem that are used in fragrance and shipped as unbowed bunches . "

Dianthus caryophyllus - always sold outThe Dianthus caryophyllus is their firm growing market . Several geezerhood ago , they enter two new markets and since then , they are always sell out . " Over the last 4 years , we are send flowers to Korea and last twelvemonth , the volumes have become interesting " , enunciate Guttierez . According to him , it is a new marketplace for Colombia that mainly demands carnations from Augustus till May . " They are take care for good quality products and are willing to devote for it . "

Another market that has become increasingly interesting to Inverpalmas is Poland . " We started ship the first flower to this body politic 5 - 6 year ago . It was dumb and speculative , but now we have several solid clients who demand good volume . "

carnation - new varietiesWith carnations , Inverpalmas is eager to stay on top of the new varieties . " In carnations , it is hard to see the differences in lineament , therefore , we taste to be different in the form we supply . " so as to have the modish assortment as potential , they found each change for only two years . " Then , we decide to renew them or not . The varieties with antique colour , for example , are doing very well at the consequence . We , therefore , adjudicate to plant more of these varieties . " But before a variety will be found . It is test first in their trial area . " In this way , we can confirm whether the timbre and color is OK . "

CertificationBesides their Rainforest certification , they are also endorse by Walmart in the US , which checks if we take good care of the environmental practice , the labor and tone of the product . They used to have the Orange label , but now received the Green recording label . " We are very proud of it . "

Future plansInverpalmas is growing carnations , nebulizer and standard carnation on 40 ha for 30 years now . Over the years , they changed markets and therefore motley . As the demand for gillyflower increase sharply over the last years , they will probably supplant some of the old rosaceous sort with carnations to cope with the demand . On top of that , they are exercise hard to see what they can do to make the ordering process faster for their buyers . " We seek to employ the current technologies and become more originative in the service we provide . We are presently developing a system of rules to commit order online .

For more selective information : InverpalmasJose Enrique GutierrezEmail:[email protected]www.inverpalmas.com