Patrick Vez is one of Anthura ’s first growers . He lives in Portugal with his wife and 6 child and owns a nursery there of 5,000 m² filled with Anthurium cut flowers for the Portuguese mart . More than 6,000 kilometers forth , in the Dominican Republic , his other ship’s company is situated . With a total surface of 8 hectare of greenhouses and shade houses , Anthuriana Dominicana produces million of plants and bloom every year .
" At the start we exported all our bring down flowers to the United States . At a certain moment I started to grow Poinsettia ’s ; in Puerto Rico they sold them on every recess , but nowhere in the Dominican Republic . Anthuriana Dominicana started to sell them topically , even though there are only 100,000 consumer that buy blossom and plants . This is a very modest amount equate to the 11 million inhabitants . However , the elite group is very rich . They like to show what they have and spend a portion of money on peak and plants , among other thing . ““I now betray all the plants in the Dominican Republic and a small bit in Haiti . We hold back on investing and expanding and now we have about 700 products , among which Phalaenopsis pot works , tail-flower pot plant and family Bromeliaceae : our top 3 products . But we have much more . We also have succulent , cactus , palms , vandas , dendrobiums , calatheas , ficus , spatifillums , fern , poinsettias , annuals etc . We have 200 employee , 6 farms at 6 different locations , sometimes a four time of day drive from one to another . The social organization is mainly that each glasshouse has its own task , for lesson for Phalaenopsis we arise one phase in one specific nursery and the next phase is on a farm more than 100 klick away . "
allot to Patrick , the main difference is that in the Dominican Republic , they do not have supplier . Garden centre can not find full growers and suppliers . " And that is our posture : our success is that we issue everything . If somebody open up a new supermarket , there is not much available , because we farm everything . When they bribe from us , they can take . A lot of people purchase cut back flowers and pot plants because of a certain situation , such as a wedding ceremony , party or funeral . For potted plants it is part to alter and masses are start to buy them as well , include in lower classes . "
" Florists make nothing in advance . They start make an placement or bouquet after an assignment that is pay . If I were an investor , I would make more shops . But I do n’t palpate like it , because I like to influence with plant and not spend my time with paperwork . The opportunities in the Dominican Republic are definitely there . "
" Plants and flowers are mostly for the full-bodied here . They are a position symbol . Twenty - five years ago , rich hoi polloi all lived in house with vast garden , so there were a lot of outdoor plants back then and their mansion were always filled with flower sweetness . today nearly all the hoi polloi live in modernistic apartments . advanced , so the course here is sinister , white and glass and not so much colors . Therefore there is no necessity to meet the apartment with colored plants . However , if they buy plants , they always order large quantities , like the hotel and restaurants . In this eminent class securities industry , succulent and green plant are also popular . Dominican people are surprisingly aware of what happen in the cosmos . "
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