New Member from Colombia

[Luisa]

Business: Benilda Flowers

Location: Bogotá - Colombia

Type of Business: Grower – Carnations, Spray Carnations, Roses and Alstroemeria.

About Me:
Hello All, I am working at a Colombian farm in the marketing department. I have been in the business for 4 years and I love it!!. My purpose is to meet people involved in the business to share my thoughts and experience working in a farm. And Also I would like to practice my English vocabulary!

I look forward to sharing and getting to know everyone.

Thanks and have a good day!

Luisa Monroy

 

[Erlene]

Welcome Luisa!
Your vocabulary is excellent, you must have practiced a lot already!

 

[RJD]

It will be great to hear from our friends in Colombia who grow us such beautiful flowers to sell!

 

[BamaE4U]

Great. . .maybe now, we can. . . . .

get the inside story on things like weather conditions which always seem to crop up before a major holiday.

Your english seems to be better than some of ours. Yours has not been corrupted yet.

Welcome. . .

 

[carol]

Business: Benilda Flowers



I look forward to sharing and getting to know everyone.

Thanks and have a good day!

Luisa Monroy

Hi Luisa\
I could use some help. I have to do a few large centerpieces for a reception for a new Columbian chef.. and I have no idea what is local to Columbia as to style of arrangements. I get lots of flowers from you but I guess I do not know what style of arrangements you all do for yourselves.

Could you post some pictures of typical centerpieces.?? I even tried to google this..but only got pictures of individual flowers.. not typical arrangments of flowers.
Thanks for the help
carol

 

[Bluebellinata]

Hello Luisa

I like to learn lots about Columbia and probably will ask you about about how it is to grow all the lovely flowers we get to put in arrangements here in UK. When conditioning and unwrapping the fresh delivery I always look out for the flowers that come from Columbia.

Talk to you again when more time....

Petra

Business: Benilda Flowers

Location: Bogotá - Colombia

Type of Business: Grower – Carnations, Spray Carnations, Roses and Alstroemeria.

About Me:
Hello All, I am working at a Colombian farm in the marketing department. I have been in the business for 4 years and I love it!!. My purpose is to meet people involved in the business to share my thoughts and experience working in a farm. And Also I would like to practice my English vocabulary!

I look forward to sharing and getting to know everyone.

Thanks and have a good day!

Luisa Monroy

 

[Luisa]

Hi Erlene

Welcome Luisa!
Your vocabulary is excellent, you must have practiced a lot already!

Hi Erlene, How are you today?
I am sorry for my delayed response; I was on vacation and attending a flower show (Proflora 2007) in Cartagena-Colombia.
I hope with the flowerchat community I could meet many people related with the flower business and practice my English as I mentioned before. Well what I need is to learn more slangs….

Have a good weekend! Luisa

 

[Luisa]

get the inside story on things like weather conditions which always seem to crop up before a major holiday.

Your english seems to be better than some of ours. Yours has not been corrupted yet.

Welcome. . .

Hi Glenn,
I am really glad to participate in this community.
At this moment all carnations growers in Colombia are focusing in All Saints shipments to Spain clients. Unfortunately this year the market was really bad. We expected to sell at least 2000 boxes of carnations, but some clients cancelled orders. Also the weather did not help us. Well... now we are planning x-mas shipments. This is a non-stop business!

Have a good weekend. Luisa

 

[Luisa]

Hi Luisa\
I could use some help. I have to do a few large centerpieces for a reception for a new Columbian chef.. and I have no idea what is local to Columbia as to style of arrangements. I get lots of flowers from you but I guess I do not know what style of arrangements you all do for yourselves.

Could you post some pictures of typical centerpieces.?? I even tried to google this..but only got pictures of individual flowers.. not typical arrangments of flowers.
Thanks for the help
carol

Hi Carol, I am totally ashamed to see you wrote 2 weeks ago and I could not reply. I was out the town for a couple weeks. Please let me know if you still need the pictures.

Have a nice weekend, Luisa

 

[Luisa]

I like to learn lots about Columbia and probably will ask you about about how it is to grow all the lovely flowers we get to put in arrangements here in UK. When conditioning and unwrapping the fresh delivery I always look out for the flowers that come from Columbia.

Talk to you again when more time....

Petra

Morning Petra, How are you today?
Yes! I would like to share my experience working in a Colombian farm. Indeed, we have many clients in UK where we ship lots of spraycarnations. Now we are in the middle of All Saints shipments to Spain and the work is piling up.

I will send you pictures of our farm and storing house. So you can imagine how is the process here.

Have a good weekend, Luisa

 

[Bluebellinata]

Thank You

....All Saints is also quite a big " day for florists in Germany" although there they are making their grave displays with mosses, dried flowers and ornaments made of bark etc...

Suppose Spain observes All Saints as a majority is catholic. Why do you think the orders were down this year for Spain?

We always have Spray cars from Colombia from our wholesaler.
:~)

Morning Petra, How are you today?
Yes! I would like to share my experience working in a Colombian farm. Indeed, we have many clients in UK where we ship lots of spraycarnations. Now we are in the middle of All Saints shipments to Spain and the work is piling up.

I will send you pictures of our farm and storing house. So you can imagine how is the process here.

Have a good weekend, Luisa

 

[Twila]

Welcome to FlowerChat. It will be nice to have someone with your type of experience here.

 

[Luc]

When it will come to learn dirty words and practice them, Mikey the flower guy is your man....He loves it!!!!!!!!
Luc