Flower Auction

This morning was an early start to watch the flower auctions. The flower auction occurs everyday mid week all year round. They roughly sell 3 billion flowers and pot plants each year, this is predominantly for the European market.

There are four auction rooms with 8 different auctions happening at once, there is also another room with 3 auctions for pot plants. They use a Dutch Auction system that has been used for decades, but obviously now the technology has advanced. (as u can see in the photo)

The real amazement was the process from once the buyer purchased flowers. There was so much colour, so many flowers, and fast paced. the flowers come into a massive warehouse where they are sorted into buyers then lined up ready to be loaded into waiting trucks.