The outbreak of the newly created Coronavirus has stopped all aspects of social life around the world, and suffering has also reached the flower trade, but where do these flowers that no one wants go during the spring?

Flowers are not among the basic necessities of the human being, as they are not an important element in daily life.

And flowers in natural conditions is a wonderful gift, its place is a vase, but in light of the world witnessing an outbreak of the Corona pandemic, it became a place for the trash, or added to the compost.

A pile of unwanted flower fertilizer can be seen in the yard of the Overloper family in Dinslaken, North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany.

"We put our money in the plants ... It is a real existential problem," says a member of the family-owned business company that sells plant pots to homes and gardens.

Florists across Europe are currently experiencing major difficulties.

The Corona outbreak came during the peak of the current flower season, which is witnessing Easter and Mother's Day celebrations. Nature is thriving, and customers are longing to see the delightful colors of flowers in the corners of the house, to say goodbye to the winter season.

In the Netherlands, the countryside is infested in the spring with untold quantities of tulip fields blooming in bright colors, pink, red, yellow and purple.

In any normal year, this spectacular sight would attract 1.5 million tourists, but this year everything is calm. Large basins of unwanted flowers have been placed in front of the squares of flower growers, which are offered to passing and rare cars, buying 50 tulips for only five euros ($ 5.40).

The Netherlands annually exports plants and flowers worth close to six billion euros, but the Corona virus stops this trade.

A spokesperson for the "Royal Flora Holland" company for auctions of flowers, Michel van Shi, said that the closed borders and the lack of selling opportunities affected the flower industry greatly.

The month of March usually sees activity in the auction halls of a group of Dutch flower sales companies in Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam, which is one of the largest flower and flower trade centers in the world.

In any normal year, the auction house trades at 12 billion pieces of plants and flowers, and now there is a state of total stagnation.

This is not surprising, as the virus put an end to every occasion in which people usually give flowers to each other, from birthdays, religious events, to weddings, and even funerals.

Visits to patients during recovery and hospitalization, and to nursing homes were also prohibited. "We no longer meet people, so for whom do we offer flowers?" Fan Shi says.

As a result, the Dutch Confederation called on flower companies to display only about a quarter of their products on daily auctions, to save on unmatched flower transportation costs.

The rest of the quantity, which accounts for most of the production, is disposed of. In it, says Van Shi: «We have not seen such an order before».

On the other hand, says Norbert Engler, head of the German Federation of Wholesale Trade of Flowers, and their import: "We are currently disposing of tons of flowers in rubbish bins."

Sales of flowers have fallen to about 20% of their normal size, and many of the stalls selling flowers from Africa found in supermarkets are empty. Engler explains that the reason for this is the disruption of transportation routes.

Meanwhile, Royal Flora Holland says sales have fallen by more than 70%. If the current crisis persists, the total losses of the flower sector are expected to reach three billion euros instead of two billion.

Even in places where flower shops have remained open, demand is weak, which leads to an unwanted quantity of plants, which is often eliminated by adding them to the compost.

"Even houseplants are destroyed, simply because there are no sales," Engler says. "It is very bad."

- A spokesman for the Auctioneers Company: "We no longer meet people, so for whom do we offer flowers?"