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Valentine Day: exorbitant flowers prices

Sunday, February 14, 2010
KARACHI: Holding out flowers on Valentine’s day is the most beautiful way to make your love speak volumes to your beloved one; accordingly, the love birds are planning to gift red rose to their beloved; but, they are suggested to up their budget on this day.

This is for the reason that flowers price has burgeoned from normal to exorbitant. The city is looks beautiful from place to place bestrewed with flowers especially red roses.

This day with abundant presence of flowers signals the arrival of spring and the flower sellers acknowledge that they earn a lot of profit on the day, when love birds actually go out to get a fresh piece of expression of love on the Valentine´s Day Sunday.

Those wishing to gift a whole bouquet instead of a single piece should be ready to spend higher price depending on the number of flowers they wish to mark the day of love.

"The huge demand of red roses for the day is the major reason behind the surge in their prices," said a shopkeer. Despite the rise in prices, he is confident of making a good business on the day. “There can be thousands of ways for celebrating love, but the value of a rose -- particularly the red one -- is more than anything else,” he stated.

Giving red rose for Valentine´s Day has been a time honored tradition for lovers. Even before the historic date when St. Valentine is said to have sacrificed his life for love, roses have played a significant part for lovers.

The price for rose is also determined by its size. The price is higher for larger stem, whereas smaller ones costs relatively less, he further said.

The price also varies with the color. Valentine´s classic red roses are expensive, whereas yellow, orange, purple, white or pink roses cost relatively cheaper.

There are some people who come to Karachi to earn good profit by selling their flowers in the city, creating some ripples in the stagnant economy of the country.

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