The floral industry lost several professionals whose contributions won’t be forgotten. If there are other professionals you’d like to remember,...
Remembering Those We Lost in 2023
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Floral Industry News
2023 in Review: SAF Advocated, Educated and Connected the Industry
Despite flattening sales, 2023 proved to be a year of evolution for floral businesses that leveraged artificial intelligence, third-party delivery,...
Top 10 Headlines of 2023
We reviewed a year's worth of articles and chose 10 that highlight 2023's news and trends. SAF Advocacy Push Secures Additional $1 Million for...
Keep Botrytis at Bay
Few things make floral professionals’ hearts sink like the sight of gray fuzzy growth on flower petals. Fortunately, new research has identified...
Does Your AI-Generated Content Sound Off-Brand? 6 Tips to Help
Editor’s note: This article by artificial intelligence expert Nicole Donnelly is the fifth in a series appearing in SAF News Now about how to use AI...
Overcome These 10 Leadership Challenges
Be willing to keep learning and growing — that’s the key for leaders to be able to address their biggest obstacles according to floral industry...
Drive Retention and Sales with Behavior Insight
Do you have a customer who is a perfectionist? Or a colleague who is a people pleaser? Do you get anxious when people don't return emails? These...
Mother’s Day Flower Sales Up, Volume Drops
About half of retail florists who responded to a Society of American Florists’ survey reported Mother’s Day flower sales were up over last year —...
Focus on Father’s Day Sales
Father’s Day is quickly approaching on June 18, and although it isn’t the typical flower giving holiday, men love to receive flowers for the same...
Why Are Some Roses So Hard to Find?
Anyone tasked with ordering ‘Playa Blanca’ or ‘Quicksand’ during the height of wedding season knows some roses can be as hard to come by as Taylor...
Plug Into the Power of AI in Miami
[mom_video type='vimeo' id='831924420' width='900' height='506']Exactly what is artificial intelligence, and how can it help floral pros? [gap...
3 Tactics to Rev Up Summer Sales
Whether you’re conducting a post-mortem Mother’s Day analysis or planning how to boost summer sales, there is always room for a few more...
Tap Into Trends
As Wendy Rockcastle left Talmage McLaurin’s 2023 Flower Trends Forecast presentation at the Society of American Florist’s annual convention last...
U.S. Floriculture Sales Inch Up; Cut Flowers Sales and Producers Decline
The U.S. floriculture industry saw a 4.2 percent increase in sales last year over 2021, while cut flower sales fell, as did the number of...
Think Like an Engineer to Get Better AI Results
Editor’s note: This article by artificial intelligence expert Nicole Donnelly is the fourth in a series appearing in SAF News Now about how to use...