Do you know about the largest flower market in the world, where thousands of big and small shops can buy flowers? How do holland roses reach Armenia?

The Aalsmeer Flower Auction, the world’s busiest and largest flower market, is located in the Netherlands․

To represent the magnitude and importance of this auction, we will first provide you with some interesting information about it.

Every day more than 20 million flowers from all over the world come here, which are sold at thousands of auctions․ It should be noted that most of the flowers sold at auction are from the Netherlands, but there are some types of flowers imported from Ecuador, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Kenya․ The warehouse, which covers 518,000 square meters, is one of the largest buildings in the world.

The flowers arrive at the warehouse at night and are put in the boxes. But the auction starts early in the morning. At the auction, a high price is set and the countdown starts from 100. The first one who makes a bet will receive a box with flowers. It should be noted that when buying early enough, there is a risk of overpayment, but in case of waiting too long for the price to fall, the player can return home empty-handed.

And now let’s present some other capturing facts about Aalsmeer Flower Auction.

• 43 million flowers and 5 million plants are sold at auction on weekdays.
• The number of flowers and plant species exceeds 30,000.
• More than 60% of the world’s flower trade goes through Dutch flower auctions.
• 54% of all flowers and plants in the Netherlands are sold through Aalsmeer Flower Auction.
• During Covid’s first wave most of the flowers were just dumped away.

But the auction features are not limited to this. You can see there a unique museum of color art and admire the original types of flowers. The most attractive part of the museum is a 64-meter flower wall made of multicolored flowers. Themes include wedding drawings, flower portraits, animal photos, flower parades. All these unique images together make up one huge work of art and surprise visitors.