suzanne: with consumers cutting back on ending, some of life's little luxuries e going by the wayde, and that's wilting the tion's flower business all along t supply chain. fromtreet vendors to flowe imrters, jeff yastine has more on aindustry still waiting for a recovery to oom. >> jeff: inside each of thes boxes is a bunch oflowers-- roses, carnations, chrysanthemumsfrom colombia, ecuador, a other latin ameran countries. roughly 80% of all the freshutnd states ps through the miami wahouses of continental flowers and 70 other imporrs here. but there don't seem to be a of those "greeshoots" coming upn this industry. upstairs, continental's les team is ferishly working the ones, selling pallets of flowers to a nwork of wholesale distributors aund the country. founr and president bill fernanz says this past year has been the rghest his firm haever been through. >> we've bn in business since 1974, so we've bn through five recessions; this is definite the hardest one. >> jeff: fernandez says peop are still dering flowers for spial occasions and holidays. but industry waters like christin