The mood in the flower and ornamental-plant market in Germany is good despite the current troubling spots. The tendentially bad experiences of the past years in the flower and plant trade have meant a decline in expectations. Stagnation in sales is evaluated as success. In 2015, plant purchases were stable and will continue to be stable in 2016 given the expected good consumer sentiment. Given declining EU exports to the most important buyer, Russia, there are increasingly attempts to compensate for the decline in other ways. And this has also been successful in part.