T Aalsmeer Auction’s notes
he houseplants’ market for flowering plants,
but even more for green plants, is normally
improving during the month of January, but not this
year. Supplied quantities were not very big, but even
so, prices have been slightly lower. The same
market situation continued during the month of
February, with only a slight improvement during
Valentine’s week and during the week before
International Woman’s Day (8 March). This feast is
mainly celebrated in Russia and the other East
European countries. Most important used products
are the cut flowers and in particular the roses, but
also potted plants are more and more used. Of
course, mainly flowering plants and in particular the
red coloured types and varieties, such as
anthuriums, kalanchoes, pot roses, gerberas, but
even green plants, especially the medium sized ones.
During week number eight prices were best and this
lasted until the middle of week 9. After that, prices
of many products considerably decreased. Positive
exceptions could be made for: dracaenas, for both
margenta and marginata, bicolour types, the palm
types areca, kentia, livistonia, roebelinii, and
beaucarnea. Still, taking into account the period of
the year, prices are reasonably normal. Wether the
market develop more positively during the weeks to
come remains to be seen. It will, of course depend
very much on the weather, which so far was winter
like. Remarkable was the very early beginning of the
Woman’s Day campaign. It is said that this day has
become a mixture of Mother’s Day and Valentine’s
Day nowadays. The auctions’ selling and price
results of February have been published already and
they are very positive and satisfactory. The auctions’
total turnovers increased with 6.6%, but for
houseplants the percentage was slightly higher. The
positive results were not obtained with more
volumes, but just with higher prices. The garden
plants’ results have been slightly negative, mainly
due to the very cold weather this year.
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