Künzell / Ebersburg , East Hesse - In some cases , 300 per centum higher heat price - garden centers in the realm are reporting an enormous price increase for heat their nursery with oil and gas . Savings are not accomplishable since the plants would need constant warmth for their growth . Waiting for warmer temperature to start growing is not potential due to farseeing lead times . In addition , there is enormous price pressure from the contender .
Jörg Weimer , managing music director of Blumen Weimer in Künzell , describe the billet as a cataclysm in opinion of the utmost rise in gas pedal prices : " I have 300 percent more costs . " For the necessary estrus of 16 to 18 degrees Celsius for the increment of the plants , he says , he has to start the heating organisation solar day and dark . Despite the accelerator toll detonator , he says , that means costs that quickly rise above 100,000 euro for an area of several hundred square meters . " How are we supposed to pass that on to the flowers ? We ca n’t , " he makes clear . In the worst type , that would mean the end for many local glasshouse in the region . Simply passing on the increased Leontyne Price to customers is not possible , he say , because customers would decide against buying flowers if they were a luxury token . " We bug out production 14 day later than usual to save on heating cost , " Weimer read . However , he can not turn down the temperatures : " The plants want heat . "
Raising plants for springtime sales is already afoot , the general manager indicates . These include 70,000 spring botch and 50,000 veg plant . For the come weeks , the general manager hope for less rain and frost : " The temperatures are good . Only the sun is missing . We are in the starting blocks . " specially for the Easter business concern , daffodil and reduce flower , for exercise , are currently being prepared for cut-rate sale , he suppose . " We do n’t stop product until mid - April , " Weimer said . He does not have capacities for additional events such as the state horticultural show or the princely garden festival : " We concentrate on our business as a wholesaler , even for competitors . "
Andrea Becker , the owner of Blumen Krug in Weyhers , East Hesse , also reports similarly increased prices : " It ’s not just energy , all production costs , pot land and much more , have fail up , 35 to 40 percent from now on . " With the enormous pressure of contender with other provider , such as orotund supermarket range of mountains , she says she can not decease this increase on to customers . That means a significant fiscal effect , she suppose . " I need 45,000 liters of warming oil over the twelvemonth for the greenhouse . That ’s where every cent makes itself feel , " Becker sum . ignite less , he state , is not possible for ideal industrial plant development . " The state of affairs is much more hard than it was a twelvemonth ago , " she add together . The owner explain that 75 percent of the plants are produce and grow at once on situation : " The Easter business is already in the start blocks , we start up already in the crepuscle . " The assortment ranges from veggie and herbaceous plant industrial plant to Graeco-Roman natural spring and summer florals . Becker also provide bloom for the body politic horticultural show , she says .
Source : Osthessen Zeitung
