Many people wonder how they can save water. "This is not really necessary for us, because we are a blessed land with water," says the press officer of the RWW, Ulrich Schallwig. However, he finds that one idea should think about the saving of water when his sweetheart for Valentine's Day flowers schenkt.Er points out that about 80 million roses from water-poor developing countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Colombia and Ecuador are.
"In every bunch of roses for Valentine's Day," said Schallwig, "put nearly 120 liters of virtual water from regions with dramatic water shortages and a daily struggle for water. They are almost as much as for the consumption in the household are employed, namely 122 liter. "Schallwig even involve the consequence that he gives to his wife for Valentine's Day flowers, but prefer to eat with you're going. But the man from the RWW, it will spoil in no case with the florist for flowers and therefore does not advise abstinence, but for the purchase of regional and seasonal flowers, not for their manufacture and transport much so Water and energy must be expended, as of flowers from overseas.
Hans-Hermann Nagel, who sold his wife Angela on the weekly market at the Castle Street Flowers says. "We do not pull even our flowers, but refer them to the U.S. Currently, we sell a lot of seasonal flowers such as tulips, bulbs, anemones and freesias. But of course, the roses are in demand all year round. "Most of the flowers, nail selling he and his wife come anyway from the region, from the Lower Rhine and in Holland. However, he also roses from Ecuador in the range, and very strong. Hans-Hermann Nagel and his wife also offer roses from the so-called Fair trading on that from a customer perspective but have the disadvantage of a section of a € more expensive than conventionally produced overseas flowers.
Claudia Brück of Transfair estimates the market share of the roses in the Republic to about one-third and the proportion of flowers from fair trade and fair production to about 2.4 percent. In order to get roses and other flowers from overseas the-black-green turquoise-colored fair-trade mark, they must have been without child labor, fair wages, and produced in an environmentally friendly manner.
"customer must be favorable, especially flowers," says the Styrum florist Edith Friday. Her colleague, Heike Simons from city center asks its customers never asked, where are their flowers and the conditions under which they are made. Will still provide two flower traders on fair trade flowers. "I can calculate something different," says Friday, it is important to sell flowers made fair and includes the estimated 95 percent of their flowers from the region and the neighboring Netherlands.
Heike Simons Julia Roloff customer who bought yesterday at her a bouquet of purple tulips, admits that she previously did not know that our flowers not only from Germany and Holland, but some come from overseas to us. But even now, she preferred flowers of the season and region. Now begrudge they are tulips and a little later in the year then the peonies have their turn. And what about the flowers for Valentine's Day from prices ". This is, as always in the market demand determines the price," says Edith florist Friday and charged in the wholesale of Valentine's premium of about five cents per flower.
This text was published on 11 February 2011 in the NRZ
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