ALEXANDRA FARMS
Alexandra Farms is a boutique grower specializing in nostalgic, romantic, fresh-cut garden roses and dahlias. Our farm is located in the fertile savanna of Bogotá, high in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, where the warm days and cool nights are perfect for growing flowers. Our garden roses and dahlias are grafted, harvested, graded, bunched and packed by hand.
Alexandra Farms was started by Jose R. Azout in 2005 and is named after his daughter.
We grow an assortment of roses of many different colors, shapes and sizes that were bred in France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark. These 31 varieties make up the Alexandra Farms Deluxe Garden Rose Collection.
As the largest of four licensed David Austin® growers in the world and the only one in Colombia, we are thrilled to offer 16 of the most romantic English garden roses in our David Austin Wedding Rose Collection.
Eight unique varieties of garden roses that were bred for the Emperor of Japan make up our Princess Japanese Garden Rose Collection.
The Wabara Garden Rose Collection is a branded line of three very special Japanese garden roses developed by breeder Keiji Kunieda.
We grow 12 varieties of dahlias with desirable shapes and colors, and long vase life. Our varieties were developed by two breeders for the cut flower market. More varieties are in testing for future release.
We currently sell to select importers and wholesalers in the USA, Canada, England, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and more. To get our garden roses, simply ask your wholesaler to give us a call, send us an email, or contact us through our web form.
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OUR TEAM
Jose "Joey" Azout
President
Jose "Joey" has been in the flower business for more than 25 years. Starting out as sales manager of a small minicarn farm in Bogotá called Agricola Los Arboles, Joey went on to start Maxima Farms in Miami. After six successful years, Maxima Miami was sold to USA Floral, while Maxima Bogota was sold to Westphere investments, a Private Equity Fund out of New York. Joey then worked for Gerald Stevens, Dole Fresh Flowers and the Delaware Valley Floral Group. At the latter Joey was president of Transflora, a traditional importer of fresh cut flowers and Flower Transfer, a customs brokerage and handling business.
Now as president of Alexandra Farms, Joey is constantly looking for new varieties to grow and new customers to sell to. He is married to Clarita and has twins sons, Lucas and Noah, and a daughter called Alexandra. Joey speaks fluent Spanish and English and an embarrassing French and Italian.
Contact Joey:
joserazout@alexandrafarms.com Tel: +1 (305) 528-3657
Skype: joserazout
Roberto
Uribe
General Manager
Roberto Uribe is the general manager of Alexandra Farms in Bogotá. He has been in the flower industry for more than 29 years: first at Maxima farms, and later at Elite Flower.
Contact Roberto:
gerencia@alexandrafarms.com
María Inés
Venegas
Sales Manager
María Inés has been in the industry for more than 15 years and brings experience from working in other farms in Bogotá including Flores Aurora, Santa Helena Flowers, Grower2Buyer. She has relationships with customers all over the world including Switzerland, Belgium, France, Sweden, England, Holland, Japan, USA and Canada.
Maria Inés speaks fluent Spanish, English and French as well as a bit of Italian. Her pride and joy is her daughter Alejandra who is in training for rose breeder.
Contact María Inés:
sales@alexandrafarms.com
Tel: +1 (305) 767-2113
Skype: sales.alexandrafarms
María Paula
Córdoba
Sales Manager
María Paula has been selling flowers for more than 10 years. She previously worked at Flores de Funza, one of the larger farms growing a wide variety of products and selling them all over the world.
María lives in Bogotá with her husband and two children: a son, Jerónimo, and a daughter, Silvana.
Contact María Paula:
mariapaula@alexandrafarms.com
Tel: +1 (305) 809-7088
Skype: paucordobao
Sandy
Saenz
Sales Manager
Sandy has been selling flowers in Miami and Bogotá for more than 10 years. She previously worked for HOSA, Queens, Multiflora, Floralink, Inverpalmas and Panatlantic (a freight forwarder). She is also a graphic designer.
Sandy has two daughters named Paulina and Sofía.
Contact Sandy:
sandy@alexandrafarms.com
Tel: +1 (305) 515-8170
Skype: sandy.saenz
Antonina
Gavrishina
Sales Manager
Antonina has worked with customers in the Russia, USA, and Europe during her extensive floral industry career. Before joining us, Antonina worked as Mosflor in Ecuador. We are glad to have her focusing on eastern European countries as she speaks fluent Russian.
Antonina has a son named Nicolay and a daughter called Alexandra.
Contact Antonina:
Tel: + 57 (312) 501-0432
Skype: antoninaga.sales
На протяжении своей карьеры в цветочной индустрии, Антонина сотрудничала с клиентами из России, США и Европы. До вступления в нашу команду, Антонина представляла компанию Мосфлор из Эквадора. Мы рады, что благодаря свободному владению русского языка, она может сосредоточиться на странах Восточной Европы.
У Антонины есть сын, которого зовут Николай и дочь по имени Александра.
Ниже контактная информация Антонины:
Tel: + 57 (312) 501-0432
Skype: antoninaga.sales
Ana María Bustamante
Sales Manager
Ana María has been in the floral industry for many years, having sales experience in flowers with Funza Farms. She lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and two children.
Contact Ana María:
anamaria@alexandrafarms.com
Tel: +1 (424) 299-7701
Skype: live:.cid.a239a466d3774c44
Monica
Noguera
Administrative Manager
Monica has been in the industry for more than 25 years and brings experience from working in other farms in Bogotá, including Maxima Farms.
Monica is married to Roberto and is the mom of Nicolás and Natalia.
Contact Monica:
Oscar
Munevar
Technical Director
Oscar has over 15 years of experience in flower growing and is an expert in Sustainable Pest management and Fertilization programs. He has worked in several flower companies as well as in the fruit and Banana industries. We are lucky to have him!
Mauricio
Galindo
Farm Manager
Mauricio has been growing roses for the past 28 years and has developed an incredible insight into these marvelous plants. Mauricio comes to us from Flora Intercontinental and Aguas Blancas, two traditional rose houses here in Bogotá.
Contact Mauricio:
mauricio@alexandrafarms.com
Elizabeth
Pérez
Export Manager
Elizabeth has been with us since Maxima Farms and is the glue that brings it all together. She remembers each and every customers' favorite assortment and then makes sure we deliver!
Elizabeth's pride and joy is Laura, her teenage daughter who is interning as an emergency room physician at a local hospital to meet the requirements of her medical degree.
Contact Elizabeth:
exports@alexandrafarms.com
Pilar
Buitrago
Florverde and
New Product Manager
Pilar is a biologist and graduated from the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Before working at Alexandra Farms, she did research in the Colombian Amazon. She has a son named Nicolas, who studies Law at university; it is her greatest pride. At Alexandra Farms Pilar is in charge of introducing new varieties to our collections; she leads the development and evaluation of new products, especially in the post-harvest area; she serves on the company's environmental committee; and more.
Contact Pilar:
Yolanda Rojas
Accounts Receivables
Yolanda has been in the industry for many years managing A/R insurance as well as credit limits, overifes, etc.
Contact Yolanda:
receivables@alexandrafarms.com
Tel: + 57 (300) 307-5050
Skype: alexandrafarmsreceivables
Marcos Tellez
Production Manager
Marcos has more than 12 years of experience growing roses and managing farms.
Juan Molina
Farm Manager
Juan has been growing roses and managing farms for 42 years. He previously worked at Flores La Conchita and Beall's Roses.
Carlos Sarmiento
Human Resources Manager
Carlos is our Human Resources Manager and has been part of our team since working at Maxima Farms years ago. He manages all 450+ employees!
Contact Carlos:
