Letterbox flowers

Phew! - she loved them; and has sent a photo and they are splendid. Quite small - but I had realised that from the website. So quite expensive for what you get - but just as shown, so I am not grumbling.

Am I the only one who struggles with real flowers and bouquets? Don't get me wrong - l love them and really appreciate being sent them but I really don't have anywhere to put a large floral arrangement, windowsills are not wide enough, conservatory is too hot and I'm reluctant to put anything which drops pollen on my dining room table. My house is so warm they don't last that long either. My husband always gets me a huge bouquet for my birthday which is also the day before our wedding anniversary and a friend also sends flowers for my birthday and I end up putting them out of sight in the utility room. I do have smaller vases of artificial flowers dotted about the place but it doesn't matter if the cat knocks one of those over. Guess I'm just an ungrateful so and so

I've just used Bloom & Wild for the first time, my friend was delighted and sent me a photo - they looked exactly as they do on the website.

Bloom and Wild are really good.The flowers are beautifully packed and tips given on ways to arrange them.

Dragonfly46 my daughter sent me a Bloom and Wild bouquet at Christmas and I wasn't very impressed with it either - it was quite sparse and the dark flowers were more funeral than festive. The next day I phoned the company to express my disappointment, spoke to a very sympathetic and apologetic man who asked me to choose a different bouquet and sent it out a few days later. It was much better.

And I gave both daughters the little Xmas trees. Very nice.

I have sent letterbox flowers from Bloom and Wild. She was very pleased with them. Said they were lovely.

My daughter has given me letterbox flowers from Bloom and Wild every month for my birthday.

On the whole they are wonderful. If you look after them as instructed they last longer than any flowers I buy in the supermarket and they are different from the normal bunch. As their name suggests they contain some unusual flowers apart from roses.
The only ones I was not too keen on were sent around Christmas and I suspect they were not delivered on time.

I have used Bloom & Wild a few times and the quality is good. They do little letterbox Xmas trees in December that come with baubles, lights and a pot. I bought myself one and planted it in the garden afterwards

Squiffy
Oh! Thanks for that.
The soil is enclosed with overlappingwood on 2 sides at right angles and a fancy water hyacinth woven 4 inch high 'fence' on the other 2 sides. Only about 7ft square. I keep putting off the planting as I can't make up my mind whether to plant bulbs or buy a bush which keeps some colour in winter. It's a shaded spot.

GabriellaG Just a headsup in case you aren't aware, Muscari have a tendency to run riot!

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Contd...pressed send too soon
Blue and white (Muscari?) grape hyacinths are some of the bulbs I forgot to plant so I might bury a few and cross my fingers.
I'm reliant on local nurseries and Google for info as I'm not very knowledgeable re gardening. Plant and pray is more my style.

When they first arrive and you open the box, they don't look much but get them in water and watch them open up, they transform into beautiful flowers.

Thanks for the newsy reply BradfordLass72.
I love your stylistic photos which mirror two of my tastes.

I have one very small flower bed which is bare (at the mo) and lots of full pots. I meant to plant bulbs in the bed but forgot after ordering them so probably can't use them now, instead I will buy some iris bulbs and those tall purple headed pom-pom flower bulbs. I haven't decided on other colours except white.

Yes, I had some (1 a month for 3 months) from a dd. They were fine, v carefully packed and lasted well.

I've received a couple of plants through the post from from Bloom and Wild and they were/are brilliant.

They come, carefully packaged, as a sort of diy kit, complete with pot and compost. The pot is woven and lined inside so that it can be flattened for posting.

The two year old azalea is still going strong and flowered non-stop! (I did repot it with fresh compost and into a larger pot when it needed it)

They look their best a few days after delivery, but they are good value and look great too.

When I visited Wales as a young girl we boxed up some primroses we picked in the hills and posted the to my mother. My friend's mother helped me pack them carefully with damp cotton wool. Not possible today of course.
I often send commercial flowers by post for birthdays, they are very good.

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GabriellaG54

It all sounds gorgeous ( and very sensible), especially the twigs, probably because twigs are so wonderfully versatile and lend themselves to so many arrangements and decor.

I'm a minimalist at heart and a lovely twisted willow, or any bare branch with just one bloom or a pretty stone, is very much my preferred style.

I wouldn't like carnations now either - academic, you can't seem to get them here - don't like the smell but Mum loved them.

I am very partial to deep purple Irises - mine are just showing through the earth. I shan't bring them indoors, just enjoy them in situ.

I used Bloom and Wild for my daughter for the first time this year and unfortunately I wasn’t very impressed so won’t bother again They certainly didn’t look anything like as pretty as the picture on their website

BradfordLass72
I don't like to have yellow flowers, gladioli or lilies indoors and decided that I prefer to choose my own blooms and greenery instead of having someone elses choice.
Having the same flowers for 3-4 weeks was boring and flowers, IMV, shouldn't 'jar' with the room.
I might just want twigs, cow parsley and greenery or a plant.
Flowers are part of the decor.
I wouldn't entertain carnations either.
That is why I almost always buy my own.

I'd never heard of this idea but used to send for Guernsey carnations every year for my Mum.

They wouldn't fit through the letterbox but they were absolutely gorgeous every time. Even now, a large bunch costs only £20.

GabriellaG54 How can flowers clash with furnishings? I didn't think flower could clash with anything, whatever their colour.

...and you couldn't choose the blooms so they sometimes clashed with furnishings in my sitting room.

I always use Bloom and Wild now. Each flower is covered with
a little net to protect them in the box and bouquets are well worth the cost. Slainte.