Why do flowers from Walter Knoll Florist last longer than from other florists or the grocery store?

The fact that we have the freshest, longest lasting flowers is not an accident. New flowers arrive every day at Walter Knoll Florist. We purchase from over 100 vendors locally, nationally and internationally. We track the performance of each of our vendors and the types of flowers that we are buying from them. We also grow some varieties ourselves. To achieve a world-class product we control the treatment of our flowers from the grower right from point they are harvested, packed, pre-cooled, and shipped. We only use vendors that preserve the Cold Chain. When flowers arrive they are processed in our state of the art center. We treat flowers as a chef would prepare fine foods. We keep them in an aseptic (sterile) environment. Anything that touches our flowers is kept clean and disinfected, including cutting tools, coolers, table services and buckets. Our coolers are computer controlled so that we can control the temperature to a tenth of a degree and the humidity to 1%. We ...  more