It's sectioned off into different buildings: potted plants, cut flower retail zone, the auction room, cut flowers wholesale zone, and the floral materials area. The potted plant building is a big greenhouse full of any type of plant that can grow here. The most overwhelming of this area is the orchid room; imgaine stall after stall of beautiful orchids. If I were more sure of my gardening skills, we would have brought one home. They had azaleas and water lillies too. I told the girls we would do some research to see what all can grow on our porch.
The cut flower retail zone is stall after stall of florists and floral arrangements. They ranged from really small bud vases of a few stems to the large palm frond standing arrangments. The bouquets in here are full retail prices. Holly was really wanting roses, but the florist wanted 20,000 won for them. No thank you....... We went home empty handed, but armed with tons of intel for our next visit.
Our return visit was far more successful, including finding a quick in/quick out parking spot (SCORE!). Since we had checked out the greenhouses and retail zone already, the girls and I headed straight to the cut flower wholesale zone. When you walk in the door, the floral frangrence engulfs you. Not in a make you sick kind of way, in the take a big deep breath and enjoy kind of way. This place is the Pike's Place Martket of cut flowers. The stalls had 3 or 4 shelves full of roses, irises, lillies, gerber daisies, and the like.
I had given the girls 3,500 Won each to spend on any flowers they wanted. We made the rounds first to see what everyone had to offer, and I then directed them back to the stalls that carried the flowers that caught their eyes. Sarah chose a mixed bouquet and a purple pom-pom type flower bouquet. Holly chose a bouquet of medium-stemmed fushia pink roses. I chose a bouquet of deep purple irises for myself.
Now, you probably are thinking that we broke the bank... NOPE!!!! We spent a grand total of 12,000 Won , or a little less than $12. AMAZING isn't it?!? And we didn't just get 2 or 3 stems; Holly got 10 roses and I got a dozen irises. That's the best part of this place. Beautiful fresh cut flowers for cheap. Needless to say, we will be back there....
After our finds in the cut flower area, we headed out to the floral materials area to see what they had. The girls picked out a flat of brightly colored bedding plants to plant in a container on our sunroom/porch. Unfortunately, we didn't find the "perfect" container for them, and the girls were getting restless and hungry. Plus, if we spent any more time we would have been late getting home.
After a trip to E-Mart for lunch, we headed back in our wonderfully perfumed car with our beautiful flowers.
Sarah's other flowers in her room
Holly's roses in her room
My irises with a few of Holly's roses "for color"
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