From Germany

In Germany, you’ll find a lot of so-called ‘cold’ growers, who grow very different roses by assortment from the African bulk and the more limited, high-tech product from the Dutch rose greenhouse. On a combined acreage of 30 to 40 hectares of greenhouses, roses are cultivated that can easily be classified as a niche but can be subdivided into a whole range of varieties: wedding roses, scented roses, spray roses, English roses, roses with grass hearts, roses with large fluff heads and more. Some also grow the so-called Freiland Roses, roses from the open field, of which the first stems will only be cut from May to September. Heated year-round cultivation, as is common in Holland, also used to exist on a modest scale in Germany. Energy costs, which according to the growers amount to up to three times the Dutch kWh price, were the main reason to end that kind of cultivation. The growers themselves are also aware of that, and that is why they are trying to diversify even further. “I have buyers and they want a bucket of everything. As many different colors and scents as possible. And the price, they don’t even ask for that,” said one of the largest rose growers in the area, Christian Wans of Wans Roses. Source: Floradaily