Flowers for Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year collide in San Francisco
This past weekend I was in San Francisco on Friday and
Sunday.
When the weather is in the 70’s, there isn't a more
beautiful city in the country.
SF Flower Market
On Friday morning, I went to SF Flower Market to check
out how business was, and how our customers were feeling. Our good friend
and customer, Karman Kwan seemed pretty happy about the holiday. He said
he was sold out and was glad that he didn’t have as many roses like his
neighbor Shibata Floral. Hopefully Shibata sold out, too.
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| Karman Kwan |
Around the rest of the market there was a good selection of branches,
spring flowers and ranunculus; all are now in good supply. Everyone seemed to
be in good spirits which is nice to see around Valentine’s Day.
Chinatown Flower Fair
On Sunday 2/15, my family and I took a trip to San Francisco
to see what was going on at the Chinatown Flower Fair. Chinese New Year
is Thursday 2/19 and this is the year of the Ram/Sheep. As you can see
there were a lot of shoppers, it is the biggest holiday of the year for the
Chinese and Vietnamese communities.
I was a little disappointed with the flower offerings.
There were a smattering of gladiolas, orchids and some nice pots of narcissus,
but otherwise it was all fake flowers and plastic stuff. There is great
potential for flower sales, someone step up! You can get your flowers
from KB.
Kung Hei Fat Choy & Happy Tet!
RHK
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