Orchid of the Month Subscription!

We offer an array of Floral Subscriptions that are great gifts to someone or yourself. Our most popular subscription is Orchid of The Month, each month, you or the recipient will receive a beautiful and unique blooming orchid to the home or office. Each plant will be different than the last – including; but not limited-to varieties such as; Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Miltonia, Oncidium, Paphiopedilum, and Phalaenopsis. A remarkable orchid collection will be created in no time! 
All varieties are simple to care for, requiring minimal water and low sunlight. With each delivery an instruction card will be sent for proper care. Each plant will be hand chosen by our designers and planted into a decorative vessel. 

We offer 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months subscriptions. Call us today to customize this subscription or order today online.

https://www.rouvalisflowers.com/floral-subscription/orchid-of-the-month-1

Valentine's Day Collection Midnight

A dark, mysterious and romantic arrangement showcases deep black calla lilies set among deep red roses and gathered in a black cylinder glass vase. 

Valentine's Day Collection Eternity

A statement of eternal love this Valentines Day. This grand arrangement includes velvety red amaryllis, red Paris roses, a stunning cymbidium orchid stem, deep calla lilies and softly fragrant hyacinth all tucked into rich plum purple hydrangeas in a tall glass vase.

Valentine's Day Collection Affection!

This Arrangement includes fragrant blue hyacinth are grouped beside sweet pink roses and rich purple hydrangea, arranged in a white glass cylinder vase.

Purple Phalaenopsis Are Arriving!

We are gearing up for Valentines Day and one of our biggest sellers are now in stock. This magnificent purple and fuchsia colored Phalaenopsis  Orchids make the perfect gift for that special someone. The longevity and easy maintenance makes these the perfect gift. We have an assortment of sizes and pot options for you to choose. Stop in today and let one of the designers help you with your decision. 

Here is an example of our Grand Orchid  

A spectacular fuchsia phalaenopsis orchid plant with distinctive and unique kiwi branch up the stems planted in a tapered black ceramic pot with river rock. 

Dog Paw Made From Roses

NBA Star Tristan Thompson is lifting his pregnant girlfriend Khloé Kardashian‘s spirits up a day after she announced the death of her beloved pet Gabbana.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality star, 33, was surprised with bouquets of roses that were arranged in the shape of a paw print in memory of the 14-year-old pet.

The mother-to-be, who is seven-months along in her pregnancy, shared a photo of the sweet gift on Snapchat and Instagram Story Wednesday with the caption, “My love @realtristan13,” with paw print emojis.

“I love you baby! Thank you for being so thoughtful,” Kardashian wrote in a video of the floral display on social media.

The Good American mogul took custody of Gabbana, then 11, after her mom and stepfather Kris and Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) split. The black Labrador, which often appeared on the E! reality series, was originally adopted along with another pup, Dolce, a Chihuahua that was later killed by a coyote.

Rose Growers Gearing Up For Valentines Day

For many growers producing higher volume, but maintaining quality and uniform bunches is a challenge for many growers and especially leading up to Valentine's Day. For the Ecuadorian rose grower Naranjo Group it was too and last year, they decided to set up and install the first Latin American rose grower - the RoseMatic 2.0 of Bercomex. And it runs at full speed at the moment. "For Valentine's Day, 160,000 roses will be sorted and bunched", says Carlos Jauregui of Columbec, Ecuadorian partner of Bercomex.



Just like many other Ecuadorian growers, Valentine's Day is one of their most important days, together with Mother's Day and All Saints. During these days larger quantities of roses are required but the quality of the Ecuadorian rose should not suffer. For this reason, Naranjo Group decided to install the new rose grading machine, the RoseMatic 2.0 of Bercomex. 



"Last year, Columbec, Bercomex and Narjanco group started to work together intensively to improve the process from farm to harvest and post harvest. We installed the RoseMatic 2.0 which is capable of processing all varieties that are produced by Naranjo Group, which are more than 80. These are grown on three farms that are located from 2,700 meters to over 3,000 meters above sea-level", says Jauregui.



The RoseMatic 2.0 sorts roses according to the length of the stem, diameter of the stem, bud height and opening of the bud and can produce 8,000 stems an hour, with a maximum of 9,000 an hour. According to Jauregui, a major advantage of the machine is the combination of high productivity and creating uniform bunches. "Manually, it is possible to achieve uniform bunches with high quality roses, but with this machine this farm may certify it and can increase the production up to 35 percent", says Jauregui. "On top of that, it saves the grading criteria per type of rose, so growers can always switch quickly." 

http://www.floraldaily.com/article/13750/Ecuador-Naranjo-Group-gears-up-for-Valentines-Day-with-new-grading-machine

Ter Laak Orchids Wins AIPH & IGOTY Grower of the Year

 

The Ter Laak Orchids in the Netherlands, have been crowned the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) International Grower of the Year (IGOTY) 2018. 

The Ter Laak Orchids family business has been growing Phalaenopsis plants since 1980. In that time, they’ve developed into a respected partner for many customers around the world. Their clients including Rouvalis appreciate the results-oriented approach and typical Dutch trading mentality. In everything they do, they are guided by their core values: demonstrating ambition, respecting people and the environment and doing business in a straightforward way. The jury praised the company for being “A fast growing international business with a strong clear focus on their people and sustainable production.  A truly outstanding company.”

Valentine's Day Collection

After weeks of numerous iterations the designers have the Valentine's Collection of 2018. Check them out.

  https://www.rouvalisflowers.com/valentinesday/

Valentines Day Roses From South America!

This year Americans are expected to spend nearly $20 billion this year on their loved ones, with more than $2 billion plus on flowers alone. This voyage to get the flowers to the states starts more than 3,000 miles away in Colombia and Ecuador, those countries exports the most flowers to the states.

An hour west of Bogota, Columbia along the Andes Mountains is  one of the largest flower farms in Colombia. At Passion Growers, workers busily harvest and process 30 million flowers for Valentine's Day for two weeks, and it's a 24-hour operation.During these two weeks before Valentine's Day the farm employees more than 1,000 workers.

The Valentine's Day production crop is approximately 15 percent of Passion Growers whole year's production in a span of two week period.  The massive greenhouses filled with roses, employees diligently inspect down to the petal before being cut and bundled, then pulled across the farm, 5,000 at a time in order to be processed from shipment. 

The roses need to be kept cold during transport from the farm to the states, this starts the second they leave the farm on trucks to the airport. Once at Bogota's airport where all the boxes from Passion Growers and other regional growers  are loaded and ready to be distributed in the states. Pallets are dry packed and stacked in Boeing 767's One load on a 767 is a staggering 50 tons of flowers, approximately 3,000 boxes. That is roughly 300,000 roses worth $1 million plus.

LAN Cargo flies about a third of the world's flowers for Valentine's Day. During the busy to weeks of Valentine's Day preparation Lan doubles its flights from Bogota. Most of all the flights head to Miami International Airport, the hub for flowers coming from South America. 

Ninety-one of percent all flowers imported into the U.S., or about 22 million a day, come through Miami International Airport. The process of unloading the flowers needs to be done quickly to avoid the Miami heat. The airlines and distributors have this process down to roughly 5 minutes from the 767 to warehouse. Once they are warehouse where the temperature is 40 degrees the flowers are inspected by Federal Agents.

The agents are looking for any signs of disease on the leaves or insects, this is a difficult process because the amount of leaves on the flowers so the agents shake and hit them. Any sings of disease or insects can hold an entire shipment from a particular farm.  After the agents have inspected its off to all the wholesalers and retailers around the country.