The short supply of specialty flowers is a factor in the increasing cost of floral arrangements you may be ordering in the future.  Todd Maas, owner of Maas Floral and Greenhouse in Sturgeon Bay, says that the supply issue with flowers began earlier this summer.  He says nationally a lot of roses are grown from Holland and Ecuador, as more United States growers have decided not to wholesale roses.

Maas notes that his staff has to be more selective in putting together floral arrangements and that he has already sold out of all fall mums for the season already.