Michigan placed fourth nationally in value of wholesale sales of floriculture products in 1996. California, Florida, and Texas reported larger sales than Michigan. Reports from Michigan's 536 commercial growers indicated an estimated wholesale value of $182 million for all surveyed floriculture crops, down 1 percent from last year. This estimate includes summarized sales data as reported by growers with $100,000 or more in sales plus a calculated wholesale value of sales for operations with sales from $10,000 to $99,999.

Crop category breakdowns for Michigan operations with over $100,000 in sales and the percent change from 1995 were as follows:

• First, bedding/garden plants with $129 million in sales, down 2 percent;
• Second, flowering potted plants with $27.4 million in sales, up 5 percent;
• Third, cut flowers with $10.4 million in sales, up 2 percent; and
• Fourth, foliage for indoor or patio use with $3.7 million in sales, down 1 percent.

  Michigan leads the nation in value of sales for four floriculture crops. They are:

• Potted Geraniums (seed) with 17.7 million pots sold, valued at $13.8 million;
• Bedding Impatiens with 2.4 million flats sold, valued at $14.5 million;
• Potted Easter Lilies with 1.5 million pots sold, valued at $5.2 million; and
• Geranium Hanging Baskets with 451,000 baskets sold, valued at $2.8 million.

  Other notable Michigan crops that ranked second in value of sales nationally were:

• Other Potted Flowering and Foliar Type Bedding Plants with 13.9 million pots sold, valued at $17.7 million;
• Bedding Petunias with 1.4 million flats sold, valued at $8.6 million;
• Cut Gladioli with 36.2 million spikes sold, valued at $5.5 million;
• New Guinea Impatiens Hanging Baskets with 435,000 baskets sold, valued at $2.7 million.
• Bedding New Guinea Impatiens with 98,000 flats sold, valued at $978,000;
• Cut Sweetheart Roses with 1.5 million blooms sold, valued at $833,000; and
• Petunias Hanging Baskets with 108,000 baskets sold, valued at $623,000.

  Total greenhouse cover for all operations in the state rose 2 percent to 32.9 million square feet. This includes both rigid and film plastic greenhouses as well as glass greenhouses. Only California and Florida have more total greenhouse cover.

  A commercial grower is defined as someone who has $10,000 or more in gross sales. Growers with gross sales of $100,000 or more provided data for cut flowers, potted flowering plants, bedding plants, and cut cultivated greens.

  

  Table 9-1.-Floriculture: Number of growers and growing area
  Year	Total growers	Glass green- houses	Fiberglass and other rigid green- houses	Plastic film green- houses	Total green house cover	Shade and temporary cover	Total cov ered area	Open ground 1
  	Number	1,000 square feet						Acres
  1994	551	4,500	3,729	23,100	31,329	563	31,892	1,912
  1995	566	4,658	3,146	24,318	32,122	549	32,671	2,041
  1996	536	4,295	3,380	25,213	32,888	784	33,672	1,797
  1 Totals may not add due to rounding.

  Table 9-2.-Floriculture: Number of growers by gross value of sales
  Year	$10,000- $19,999	$20,000- $39,000	$40,000- $49,000	$50,000- $99,999	$100,000- $499,999	$500,000 or more	Total growers
  	Number
  1994	49	65	40	105	174	118	551
  1995	44	65	36	121	181	119	566
  1996	36	62	30	101	184	123	536

  Table 9-3.-Floriculture: Area, production, and value
  Plant	Production area			Average value of production area 1
  	1994	1995	1996	1994	1995	1996
  	1,000 sq. ft.			Dollars per sq. ft.
  Bedding plants:
  Flowering and foliar	13,750	13,790	12,105	3.12	3.21	3.22
  Vegetable 2	1,890	1,749	1,665	2.89	2.88	2.72
  Geraniums	545	904	703	4.26	4.09	4.56
  Impatiens	3,460	4,252	4,845	3.02	2.98	2.99
  New Guinea Impatiens	54	212	225	4.81	4.53	4.35
  Petunias	2,075	2,539	2,919	2.98	2.89	2.94
  Potted plants:
  Foliage	340	331	265	6.59	6.40	7.82
  Chrysanthemums, florist	850	840	916	3.52	3.69	2.86
  Chrysanthemums, hardy/garden mums	1,610	2,139	1,802	1.75	1.73	1.94
  Poinsettias	5,000	5,442	5,456	2.04	2.13	2.22
  African violets	65	57	50	6.98	8.42	8.40
  Easter lilies	880	831	928	5.33	5.58	5.60
  Other lilies	117	127	(3)	5.96	5.34	(3)
  Geraniums (cuttings)	2,145	2,038	1,703	3.65	4.60	3.38
  Geraniums (seed)	2,840	2,956	3,666	4.47	4.63	3.76
  Cyclamens	145	147	140	3.72	3.77	3.69
  Kalanchoes	26	(4)	(4)	5.08	(4)	(4)
  Other flowering plants 5	700	671	974	4.78	5.00	5.22
  Other flowering & foliar type bedding plants	2,230	2,637	2,319	4.87	5.29	7.62
  Impatiens	25	65	115	3.04	4.71	2.64
  New Guinea impatiens	245	310	350	4.14	3.97	3.72
  Petunias	20	41	72	5.30	3.07	2.19
  Vegetable type bedding plants	120	118	179	3.16	2.42	2.53
  Cut flowers:
  Chrysanthemums
  Standard	13	14	13	1.77	1.43	1.38
  Pompon	35	31	32	4.11	3.81	3.78
  Roses
  Hybrid tea	470	478	451	8.19	6.75	6.46
  Sweetheart	135	129	146	6.96	5.74	5.71
  Other cut flowers	1,950	5,189	5,515	0.28	0.14	0.17
  	Acres			Acres
  Gladioli	1,450	1,206	1,294	3,676	4,465	4,283
  1 Based on value of sales at wholesale, except foliage which is based on net value of sales.
  2 Does not include vegetable transplants grown for commercial use.
  3 Included in "Other flowering plants" for 1996.
  4 Not published to avoid disclosing individual operations.
  5 Data for 1994 and 1995 include orchids which are published separately in 1996. Data for 1996 includes "other lilies" which were published separately prior to 1996.

  Table 9-4.-Production and sales: Flower and bedding plants
  Item and unit	Year	Producers with sales over $100,000	Sales (quantity)	Sales at wholesale	Wholesale price	Sales at wholesale 1
  		Number	1,000	Percent	Dollars	1,000 dollars
  Bedding plants
  Vegetables, flat 2	1994	185	975	86	5.60	5,460
  	1995	201	893	86	5.64	5,037
  	1996	209	756	82	6.00	4,536
  Geraniums, flat	1994	74	280	93	8.30	2,324
  	1995	87	469	77	7.88	3,696
  	1996	89	323	81	9.93	3,207
  Impatiens, flat	1994	150	1,800	90	5.80	10,440
  	1995	192	2,130	89	5.94	12,652
  	1996	211	2,357	87	6.15	14,496
  New Guinea Impatiens, flat	1994	24	26	75	10.00	260
  	1995	32	102	88	9.42	961
  	1996	44	98	93	9.98	978
  Petunias, flat	1994	150	1,075	89	5.75	6,181
  	1995	191	1,265	88	5.81	7,350
  	1996	215	1,372	85	6.26	8,589
  Other flowering and foliar, flat	1994	230	7,090	89	6.05	42,895
  	1995	239	6,903	90	6.42	44,317
  	1996	233	5,780	86	6.75	39,015
  Hanging baskets:
  Other flowering	1994	234	1,375	85	5.70	7,838
  	1995	240	1,263	86	5.56	7,022
  	1996	245	1,320	84	5.63	7,432
  Foliage	1994	62	296	94	4.55	1,347
  	1995	59	367	95	4.49	1,648
  	1996	56	435	95	3.77	1,640
  Geraniums	1994	157	360	84	5.95	2,142
  	1995	193	411	83	6.28	2,581
  	1996	221	451	78	6.19	2,792
  Impatiens	1994	143	280	85	5.45	1,526
  	1995	178	349	85	5.31	1,853
  	1996	197	324	82	5.31	1,720
  New Guinea Impatiens	1994	151	330	87	6.00	1,980
  	1995	184	410	87	6.25	2,563
  	1996	201	435	84	6.16	2,680
  Petunias	1994	97	58	90	5.10	296
  	1995	130	89	87	5.36	477
  	1996	161	108	79	5.77	623
  See footnotes at end of table.

  Table 9-5.-Production and sales: Flower and bedding plants (continued)
  Item and unit	Year	Producers with sales over $100,000	Sales (quantity)	Sales at wholesale	Wholesale price	Sales at wholesale 1
  		Number	1,000	Percent	Dollars	1,000 dol lars
  Cut flowers:
  Chrysanthemums
  Standard, bloom	1994	10	31	13	0.75	23
  	1995	8	25	17	0.79	20
  	1996	6	24	11	0.75	18
  Pompon, bunch	1994	11	40	30	3.60	144
  	1995	10	40	10	2.96	118
  	1996	10	43	15	2.82	121
  Roses
  Hybrid tea, bloom	1994	5	5,500	98	0.70	3,850
  	1995	5	4,742	98	0.68	3,225
  	1996	5	4,144	98	0.70	2,913
  Sweetheart, bloom	1994	4	2,000	97	0.47	940
  	1995	4	1,509	96	0.49	741
  	1996	4	1,499	96	0.56	833
  Gladioli, spike	1994	8	41,000	100	0.13	5,330
  	1995	6	33,866	100	0.16	5,385
  	1996	7	36,221	100	0.15	5,542
  Other cut flowers	1994	27	--	96	--	550
  	1995	32	--	94	--	716
  	1996	28	--	96	--	960
  1 Equivalent wholesale value of all sales.
  2 Does not include vegetable transplants grown for commercial use.

  Table 9-6.-Production and sales: Potted plants
  Item	Year	Producers with sales over $100,000	Sales			Sales at whole- sale	Wholesale price		Value of sales at whole- sale 1
  			Quantity		Total
  			Less than 5 inch pots	5 inch pots or larger			Less than 5 inch pots	5 inch pots or larger
  		Number	1,000			Percent	Dollars		1,000 dollars
  Chrysanthemums, florist	1994	41	240	715	955	96	1.30	3.75	2,993
  	1995	46	285	731	1,016	97	1.16	3.79	3,101
  	1996	46	175	569	744	96	1.28	4.21	2,619
  Chrysanthemums, hardy garden	1994	93	330	1,240	1,570	92	0.85	2.05	2,823
  	1995	112	431	1,591	2,022	88	0.85	2.10	3,707
  	1996	117	598	1,491	2,089	93	0.80	2.02	3,490
  Poinsettias	1994	118	755	2,630	3,385	90	1.50	3.45	10,206.
  	1995	118	901	2,759	3,660	90	1.66	3.65	11,566.
  	1996	119	996	2,960	3,956	90	1.69	3.52	12,102.
  African violets	1994	8	390	10	400	99	1.10	2.50	454
  	1995	11	440	8	448	99	1.05	2.25	480
  	1996	10	346	18	364	99	1.09	2.36	420
  Easter lilies	1994	64	--	1,380	1,380	97	--	3.40	4,692
  	1995	65	--	1,353	1,353	97	--	3.43	4,641
  	1996	63	58	1,456	1,514	94	2.17	3.48	5,193
  Other lilies	1994	38	--	170	170	90	--	4.10	697
  	1995	32	1	173	174	91	1.98	3.91	678
  	1996	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)
  Geraniums (cuttings)	1994	164	4,780	330	5,110	76	1.35	4.20	7,839
  	1995	178	4,863	808	5,671	73	1.45	2.88	9,378
  	1996	186	3,111	541	3,652	64	1.38	2.69	5,748
  Geraniums (seed)	1994	114	17,980	70	18,050	94	0.70	1.50	12,691.
  	1995	107	1,873	67	18,799	94	0.72	2.76	13,672.
  	1996	109	17,526	201	17,727	98	0.76	2.29	13,780.
  Other flowering plants 3	1994	70	585	670	1,255	76	1.65	3.55	3,344
  	1995	75	514	732	1,246	81	1.68	3.40	3,352
  	1996	81	1,090	1,063	2,153	93	1.33	3.42	5,085
  Cyclamens	1994	37	95	140	235	85	1.55	2.80	539
  	1995	45	68	136	204	83	1.66	3.24	554
  	1996	46	66	113	179	83	1.79	3.53	517
  Impatiens	1994	13	100	2	102	73	0.65	5.50	76
  	1995	22	208	45	253	68	0.63	3.88	306
  	1996	31	249	50	299	97	0.87	1.74	304
  See footnotes at end of table.

  Table 9-6.-Production and sales: Potted plants (continued)
  Item	Year	Producers with sales over $100,000	Sales			Sales at whole- sale	Wholesale price		Value of sales at whole- sale 1
  			Quantity		Total
  			Less than 5 inch pots	5 inch pots or larger			Less than 5 inch pots	5 inch pots or larger
  		Number	1,000			Percent	Dollars		1,000 dollars
  New Guinea impatiens	1994	85	960	37	997	89	0.90	4.05	1,014
  	1995	114	796	60	856	75	1.07	6.30	1,230
  	1996	133	1,075	80	1,155	84	0.93	3.76	1,301
  Petunias	1994	6	125	(4)	125	100	0.85	(4)	106
  	1995	22	126	14	140	96	0.72	2.51	126
  	1996	28	147	23	170	94	0.80	1.76	158
  Bedding plants:
  Other flowering and foliar type	1994	122	6,100	1,800	7,900	94	1.00	2.65	10,870
  	1995	144	9,589	2,167	11,756	94	0.85	2.68	13,958
  	1996	150	11,874	1,984	13,858.	95	1.04	2.68	17,666
  Vegetable type 5	1994	63	450	80	530	83	0.61	1.30	379
  	1995	63	252	82	334	75	0.69	1.35	285
  	1996	80	248	136	384	73	0.69	2.07	453
  1 Equivalent wholesale value of all sales.
  2 Included in "Other flowering plants" for 1996.
  3 Data for 1994 and 1995 include orchids which are published separately in 1996. Data for 1996 includes "other lilies" which were published separately prior to 1996.
  4 Not published to avoid disclosing individual operations.
  5 Does not include vegetable transplants grown for commercial use.

  Table 9-7.-Production and sales: Foliage plants
  Year	Producers with sales over $100,000	Square feet in production	Net value of sales 1	Sales at wholesale
  	Number	1,000 sq. ft.	1,000 dollars	Percent
  1994	30	340	2,240	73
  1995	34	331	2,119	66
  1996	28	265	2,072	60
  1 Gross value of sales less cost of plant material purchased from others for growing on.

  Table 9-8.-Floriculture: Wholesale value of sales by category
  Year	Total cut flowers	Total potted flowering plants	Total foliage for indoor or patio use	Total bedding/ garden plants	Total wholesale value of reported crops	Expanded wholesale value of reported crops 1
  	1,000 dollars
  1994	10,839	24,459	3,587	117,140	156,025	168,385
  1995	10,205	26,177	3,767	131,171	171,320	184,625
  1996	10,388	27,442	3,712	128,968	170,521	181,846
  1 Wholesale value of sales as reported by growers with $100,000 or more in sales of floriculture crops plus a calculated wholesale value of sales for growers with sales below $100,000. The value of sales for growers below the $100,000 level was estimated by multiplying the number of growers in each size group by the midpoint of each dollar range.