Flowers To Russia

By Author: Jamie Hanson
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It's pointless to say that in majority of countries, the art of offering flowers play a significant role in development of private and business relations. Russia and majority of former Soviet-Union countries makes no difference. Inspite of the fact in the art of giving flowers and making presents, there are numerous peculiarities that should be kept in mind to keep away from consequent misunderstandings, ambiguities and slips.

Tradition of Poinsettia has been brought from West to Russia. Bouquets should be offered in traditional Christmas and New Year color scheme. The Russian New Year colour scheme consists of gold and whites while that of Christmas are blues, greens and reds. Valentines Day quite new in Russia, its popularity is growing every year and nowadays celebrated by almost everyone. Red roses are a must on this day. Women's Day is equally vital to Russian florists as Valentines Day. The prices go double and the general turnover of floral industry in some days prior Women's Day approximately equals that of rest of the year. Women Day is symbolized with red roses and spring flowers like hyacinths, tulips and solidago. ...
... Simply use imagination; your present will be appreciated.

Few basic rules are needed to be followed. Odd number stems should be offered for any occasion, apart from giving it in sympathy and funerals or vice-versa. This guideline doesn't relate to mixed arrangements and bouquets. Yellow flowers always to be used with care as in few regions of Russia there is an old chauvinism indicating it as a sign of bad luck, also signifies end of affair. Some of the women still love to be presented with yellow flowers, however would suggest it to be used with great care.

Floral Industry in Russia - Both locally grown as well as imported flowers might be found in Russia. Locally grown flowers are really cheap; however their quality leaves much more to be desired. That is the reason most of the florists are using flowers from Holland; Ecuador & Columbia (South-American flowers) are becoming more popular. Big wholesalers generally offer rich stock of cut-flowers, roughly the same as in North America and Europe. Small regional companies have limited their stock to nearly all well-liked flowers and don't risk ordering rare and exotic flowers.

Retail - Retail flower business in majority of Russia is very different from Europe. First of all, it's conditioned by the truth that it has been formed very recently and almost all retail florists have an experience of not more than ten to fifteen years. This market can be divided into two major parts: flower shops providing full time service with professional designers and a huge quantity of people selling flowers in subway, on streets, stalls and open market. Regrettably, specialized updated flower shops in small towns don't challenge the contest of 'wild' street market which uselessly dominates the flower market in itself. However the flower service industries are constantly on the rise. In Moscow, Ekaterinburg, St. Petersburg you can find a plenty of professional studios and stores almost 5 to 10 years back. These days the situation has entirely improved and in each big city or regional center you can locate numerous high quality stores. So prediction of flower market growth in Russia is highly optimistic.

Wish to have a little information about flowers and their market in Russia, please visit flowers to Russia and Russian florist at sendflowers.ru/eng/flowers-russia/