New flowers arrive every day at Walter Knoll Florist. We purchase from over 100 vendors locally, nationally and internationally. In fact we travel several times a year to South America and inspect the farms we purchase from. We track the performance of each of our farms 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 when they are cut, packed, pre-cooled, and shipped. We only use vendors that preserve the Cold Chain. This includes transportion. When our flowers clear customs they are in a state of the art refrigerator (not on the tarmac of the air port). 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 professionaly hydrate with special RO or reverse osmosis water that is so pure it is used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

We clean the stems and remove extra foliage by hand with care; we cut flowers with our state of the art underwater cutting system to make sure the stems are free of debris, bacteria and air embolisms. We use the Pokon-Crystal™ system of cold hydration, preservation, processing and nutrition imported directly from Holland. Our flowers are in a controlled environment, even when being designed, with special open-air coolers. Our flower processing crew works every morning very early to assure that our designers and you our customers have the best product available.

Walter Knoll Florist only uses vendors that meet the EU Green Seal Certification.