Aalsmeer Flower Auction Warehouse

Aalsmeer Flower Auction at FloraHolland. Warehouse floor. As lots are sold at auction, they are dispatched by a swarm of tractors to shipping points. The photos can't convey how fast the tractors travel. Drivers receive their paper or radio orders and are then off to deliver the goods as quickly as possible to a shipping point. I don't see how they avoid crashing into one another! DSC_0945

Flora and the Aalsmeer Flower Auction

September 29th 2014
Up bright and early Monday morning to catch the Flower Auction action at Aalsmeer. Monday was to be a day trip to Delft and The Hague. But en route to Delft, we first made a stoop at Flora Holland in Aalsmeer. The Flower Auction is a vast trading floor of fresh flowers and plants. Beginning at 7:00 a.m. weekdays, the public can view the action from a catwalk above the flower warehouse floor. And t ... read more

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