Blame it on the coronavirus pandemic.
It's one of the many products â along with toilet paper, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, paper products, meat and semiconductors â for which COVID-19 has disrupted the supply chain.
"A lot of it is based on COVID," said Dave Bryan, whose family owns Bryan's Florist & Greenhouse in Gary and Merrillville. "It's affected suppliers in South America, in Bogota and Ecuador, where workers don't have access to the vaccines. One business we've had a standing order of four cases for 15 years shut down. The grower is gone."
Bryan said it's largely been an issue of staffing at flower farms being greatly reduced.