AALSMEER, Netherlands - The Netherlands is fighting to retain its crown as the world's top auction house for flowers as growers in Africa and elsewhere increasingly sell directly to buyers. The ...

Kenya was the largest foreign supplier to flower auctions held by FloraHolland, a co-operative which sells 98% of the plants and flowers auctioned in the Netherlands. The country is the world's ...

Dutch growers reportedly destroyed millions of tulips in recent weeks as the coronavirus crisis uproots the global floral industry. Some 140 million tulip stems were scrapped over the past month amid ...

A BUNCH of flowers can appear beguilingly simple, but it is a miracle of distribution. Its delicate blooms may have grown on farms scattered around the world, yet they arrived at your local florist ...

Think of Holland and the enduring images that come to mind are windmills, wooden shoes and…tulips. Tulips are not indigenous to the tiny nation. They come from -- depending on whom you talk to – ...

As far as the eye can see, there’s nothing but roses: red ones, white ones, yellow ones, short-stemmed, giant-bloomed or mini-petaled, all bound in thick bunches and stacked in crates on double-decker ...

NAALDWIJK, Netherlands (Reuters) - Despite picture-perfect spring weather outside, the Dutch flower industry has continued to wilt amid the coronavirus crisis after suffering a sharp initial shock two ...

The auction of two 17th century oil still-life paintings of flowers was recently halted after a foundation claimed they were looted by Nazis during World War II. The 5-inch by 8-inch paintings were ...