Description
The World’s Biggest Flower Market presented by Cherry Healey and Simon Lycett, florist to the Royal Palaces, tells the miraculous story of how the flowers we buy travel across the world via Aalsmeer Flower Market in Holland to reach us every day in pristine condition.
We follow three of Britain’s favourite flowers, the rose, the tulip and the lily during the busiest time of year, Mother’s Day, via Aalsmeer Flower Market in Holland (and its nearby sister markets) which together make up the biggest flower market on earth. Affectionately dubbed ‘The Wall Street of Flowers’, almost 30 million flowers and plants arrive every day to be bought and sold in its high paced auctions with over £3 million changing hands daily.
It’s an extraordinary story of incredible logistics – one in which science, technology and human ingenuity combine to meet the demands of a multi-billion pound industry built around something as romantic and ephemeral as a flower.