{"id":154500,"date":"2026-02-13T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154500\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:28:07","slug":"orlando-flower-shop-faces-delays-due-to-northern-snowstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154500\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando flower shop faces delays due to northern snowstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Valentine\u2019s Day is the Super Bowl for flower shops, but cold weather and snowstorms around the country have caused problems for some local stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our main day of the year,&#8221;\u00a0said Taila Lustri, owner of Harry\u2019s Famous Flowers in Orlando. &#8220;Last year alone we made 1,000 deliveries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Owners of an Orlando flower shop say they have faced supply delays ahead of Valentine\u2019s Day due to snowstorms up north<br \/>\nTaila and Andreza Lustri, who own Harry\u2019s Famous Flowers, say shipments of vases were slowed just days before their busiest holiday<br \/>\nAmericans are expected to spend <a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/media-center\/press-releases\/valentine-s-day-spending-expected-to-reach-new-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$3.1 billion on flowers this Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a>, according to the National Retail Federation<br \/>\nDespite delays, the shop hired extra drivers and designers to ensure customers received their arrangements<\/p>\n<p>The National Retail Federation reports that flowers are one of the most popular gift categories this Valentine\u2019s Day, with Americans expected to spend a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/media-center\/press-releases\/valentine-s-day-spending-expected-to-reach-new-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$3.1 billion this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes of Valentine\u2019s Day season at Harry\u2019s Famous Flowers, owners Taila and Andreza Lustri say it\u2019s been a race against the weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a little issue this year with the vases for Valentine\u2019s because of the storm up north, and most of our vases are from America,\u201d Andreza said.<\/p>\n<p>Andreza said they found out some deliveries had been delayed just days before their busiest holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did some substitutions,&#8221;\u00a0Andreza said. &#8220;It wasn\u2019t our first option, but what can we do?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the owners say love waits for no one. They\u2019ve been working longer hours, calling multiple suppliers and getting creative to make sure customers don\u2019t leave empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have temporary drivers because we cannot do a thousand deliveries by ourselves,&#8221; Taila said. &#8220;We have people helping. We have extra designers. People here for the front.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the delays, the owners said the support they have received from the community has meant everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Valentine\u2019s Day is the Super Bowl for flower shops, but cold weather and snowstorms around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,2031,274,6507,558,770,28,115,1335,139,141,140,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-154500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-community","9":"tag-app-local-business","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-ashley-engle","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-community-news","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-orange-county","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-news","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}