Flowers are majestic, beautiful and bright. Many flowers also possess a beautiful fragrant which are sometimes used in perfumes. Flowers have been used as a gift for the beloved since time immemorial. To this day, a lover would gift a flower such as rose to express his feelings. Aesthetically pleasing, flowers have the prowess to make our minds tranquil and to make our hearts joyful.

Recently, rooftop gardening has become a trend. In the concrete jungle, these give respite. A large collection of plants found atop roofs are flower plants. Growing flower plants is relatively an easy activity. For this reason, they can be planted by both experts as well as novices. In the meantime so many people are now becoming more interested in cultivating flowers commercially. The reasons are many. As said above, aesthetic and emotional purposes are the top priorities. Flowers also have many other uses.

The women of Bangladesh love to adorn their hair with flowers now and then. Sometimes it is a single flower that decorates hair while at other times, it is a beautiful floral crown. Flowers are also used to embellish houses. We cannot also deny the Ayurvedic benefits of many flowers, for which reason they are used regularly in parlours for spa. Rosewater and rose petals, for example, are used in skin treatment. Owing to all these multi-dimensional uses, flower business is blooming incredibly in our country.

Once upon a time there were only a handful of flower shops in Dhaka. But now the trend has changed to a great extent. Now we find flower shops almost everywhere in the city because the demand has increased in many folds.

Well, not only the businessmen but also different stakeholders are now putting emphasis on flower business. As a reflection of that, different flower festivals are organized nowadays.

However ample fields are now dedicated in Bangladesh to flower cultivation. The reason is simple. Flowers contribute greatly to the economy. When flower business first began its journey in Bangladesh, the number of farms supplying horticultural plants was minimal. But the number has increased in many folds in the last two decades.

Considering these prospects many experts now think that flower business can be expanded further as it has huge potential in the domestic market as well as international market. Many even think that Bangladesh should now concentrate on the international market and try to export flowers. If we can do so, it can be a good source of revenue for Bangladesh.

(The writer is a fashion blogger.)