If you send a bouquet of roses for Valentine's Day, chances are they were grown in Colombia. It remains the No. 1 supplier of flowers to the U.S. even though the coronavirus pandemic at one point ...

During the 2024 Valentine's Day season, Colombia exported over 59,000 tons of fresh cut flowers. Colombia is the United States’ largest supplier of flowers. (Fabiola Ferrero/The Washington Post) ...

Roses are ready to be shipped to the U.S. ahead of Valentine's Day, the biggest holiday of the year for fresh-cut flower sales, at the Mongibello flower company in Chia, north of Bogotá, Colombia ...

The United States is the world’s largest importer of cut flowers. This year Americans are expected to spend $27.5 billion on flowers this Valentine’s Day alone, a record-breaking sum according ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tax on imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time: The wrangling over the South American country's willingness to ...

Colombia’s Bloom Boom On farms outside Bogotá, Valentine’s Day is less hearts and kisses and more big bucks and sore backs. By Brenna Haragan. Feb 13, 2015 9:08 AM.

MADRID, Colombia — The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 million in all, grow here, the savanna outside Bogotá, summoned from the soil by 12 hours ...

The season before Valentine’s Day is the busiest time of the year for Colombia’s growers, when the 130,000 people employed at hundreds of flower farms work nonstop to ship some 500 million ...

The Valentine’s Day industrial complex, complete with mandatory red roses and bouquets of flowers, owes a debt to the sweeping savannahs around this capital city. Fifty years ago, Colombia ...

Through November, the U.S. had imported $1.14 billion worth of cut flowers from Colombia, more than it brought in for all of 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Valentine’s Day Roses From Colombia Are Saved After Tariff Scare. A spat over deportations from the US nearly derailed one of the most profitable seasons for the world’s No. 2 flower exporter ...

President Donald Trump’s threat to tax imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time. Valentine’s Day is less than three weeks away, and Colombia is America’s No. 1 foreign source ...