Saying it with flowers in Frome: coronavirus hits supplies
He has been selling flowers in Frome since he can remember, but Stuart Needs could really do with a few more blooms - at a good price.
He told Nub News that the reason, like so much, coronavirus.
He said : "Flowers coming in from Holland are very expensive at the moment due to demand. "There are just not enough flowers. Because the growers took out a lot of the young plants that were growing to be a cut flower at the start of the pandemic." They ripped them out so they wouldn't have to throw them out and now they are having to wait for other crops to come through. They do constant planting - rolling planting - so hopefully it will get better."
The earlier supply of blooms was sustained, but then they were stuck when travel between countries was stopped - so growers decided to pull the plants rather than let them go to waste.
" They couldn't bring the flowers in because of lockdowns so that is why they stopped but just how long will this go on. And will there be more lockdowns? No one knows."
But Stuart, who sells every Saturday in Frome near the cross, is upbeat and said: " It is not too bad, but we all want back to normal."
According to Bloomberg Businessweek the Netherlands, like much of Europe, was hit very hard early in the pandemic—but the country also had among the world's briefest peaks in new cases. On March 26, the death count was doubling every five days; two weeks later that had slowed to 11 days, and the death rate has continued to fall while testing has accelerated.
From July 4 the Netherlands was made exempt from the FCO advice against all non-essential international travel.
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