Hundreds of trucks with flowers had gathered in a queue at the Kaliningrad customs

Hundreds of trucks with flowers had gathered in a queue at the Kaliningrad customs. From Europe taking the traditional tulips, roses and chrysanthemums. On the border the goods will undergo strict sanitary control.

Millions of red roses are taken to the first days of spring in the Kaliningrad region of Bratislava, where there is a large floral base. The load issue queue. You need to maintain your beauty and appearance. Bouquets tightly Packed in cardboard boxes or plastic water tanks. Weekly on Bagrationovsky customs post receives dozens of trucks with fresh cut flowers. there are roses from Kenya, Colombia, Ecuador, tulips, grown in Germany, Holland, Poland and orchids from Israel. before the holiday in the Russian regions delivered a huge batch of bright, fragrant flowers. In Ekaterinburg airport daily aircraft bringing tons of special packages, Packed at the flower exchange in Amsterdam.

Employees of the border points is simply swamped with flowers, but admit that on March 8 would not refuse a bouquet. All the flowers on the border are strict phytosanitary control. Testing them for diseases and quarantine pests. But in Kaliningrad flowers not only bring. Hundreds of trucks transporterowych tulips and hyacinths grown in local nurseries, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Kemerovo. Kaliningrad gardeners have proved themselves even in the Netherlands at the world-famous flower auction in Aalsmeer.

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