A brighter future for Britain’s flower industry
SIR – The Dutch flower industry is afraid that port delays after Brexit could destroy their trade (Business, November 22).
They might consider that in the Seventies the UK’S glasshouse flower crops, mainly chrysanthemums, were decimated when the Dutch government subsidised glasshouse fuel, allowing Dutch growers to compete unfairly with the UK crops.
If the fears are realised, perhaps we will once again see in the fields of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire a kaleidoscope of colour and the return of the Spalding Flower Festival, where many floats are decorated with thousands of tulips. David Carrington
Swavesey, Cambridgeshire