11-05-2025
Price of Some Mother's Day Flowers Skyrockets in 2025
If you've bought the mother or mothers in your life flowers for Mother's Day 2025, you may have been in for a little sticker shock.
If so, you're not alone. According to CNN, the price of some flowers on Mother's Day has skyrocketed amid tariff wars.
Some people are forgoing buying flowers completely due to rising costs. According to CNN, some florists "are raising the prices of some flowers and causing some wary shoppers to pull back on spending."
'We have to charge more, and it's definitely affecting sales — which I totally get,' Allison Krivachek of Hydrangea Bloom in Iowa, told CNN. 'People just don't have the disposable income they used to.'
CNN reported that Krivacheck described prices this year as 'ridiculously different,' and CNN reported that lisianthus flowers "have doubled in price," according to the florist, with roses "up anywhere from 10% to 50% compared to last year."
'It seems like the prices have went up a lot,' said customer Tirrell Butler to ABC 10. 'The flowers are like $40 just for a small thing of flowers, so it's like everything has gone up.'
Since most cut flowers come from other countries, some florists in the U.S. are trying to find wild and local flowers instead for Mother's Day, CBS News reported.
There are conflicting reports about whether consumers are spending less as a result, though.
Lending Tree announced that "71% of Americans will give gifts this year," on Mother's Day, "mostly to their moms (42%), spouses/partners (17%) and mothers-in-law (12%). On average, gifters will spend $148. That's down 14% from $172 in 2023 and 34% from $225 in 2022."
However, The National Retail Federation offered better spending news. "As with previous years, 84% of U.S. adults are expected to celebrate the holiday. On average, those celebrating plan to spend $259.04 on Mother's Day gifts and celebrations, about $5 more than they budgeted in 2024," it reported.
'It's just really weird that there's been such a jump because the tariffs aren't that much. And I don't know if they're raising their prices because of supply and demand,' Krivachek said to CNN.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mother's Day flowers have historically come to the U.S. through imports.
"Many bouquets contain flowers grown in countries where cool, wet climates have historically favored production," USDA reported. "In fiscal year 2022, the United States imported nearly $3.3 billion worth of cut flowers, plants, and nursery stock products from 81 countries. Imports of fresh-cut roses totaled more than $800 million, while other fresh-cut flowers such as chrysanthemums, carnations, and lilies were valued at a combined $1.1 billion."
According to the USDA, South American countries are leading suppliers of cut flowers to the U.S.
"Of the many countries supplying flowers and other nursery stock, Colombia made up the largest import value at $1.2 billion. From 2018 to 2022, Colombia provided about 37 percent of U.S. cut flower and nursery stock value," the USDA reported. "Other leading suppliers in 2022 included Canada, Ecuador, and the European Union, as well as smaller supplying countries of Mexico, Taiwan, and Costa Rica."
Colombia and Ecuador, where most cut flowers come from to the U.S. today, have been hit with tariffs, CNN reported.
