Weekend packed with proms, Mother's Day creates work crunch for local florists
Do you plan to buy flowers as a Mother's Day present next month?
If so, you might want to get your orders in a little early than usual this year.
Along with Mother's Day on May 9, area florists also will fill orders for six local high school proms that weekend. As if that weekend were not busy enough, the pandemic has also driven flower prices higher than usual for this time of year and has even limited how florists can get their flowers.
Ed Bloom, owner of The Butler Florist, explained that many florists get their flowers from out of the country, typically South America. But the pandemic has reduced air travel into the United States, restricting which flowers are available this season.
“Unfortunately, we're probably going to be turning away an amount of corsage work,” Bloom said. “Products are tight. I've never seen flower prices up this high already.”
This is an excerpt from an article that appears in Thursday’s Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read the full article.
