Florists selling poor flowers

I have not contacted the florist. DD did tell me who it was but I am not 100% sure I have got the name right and do not want to double-check with her as I think she would be upset - and knowing her, buy me another bunch! I do not want her put to that expense. She was very proud of having found this shop and thought it was wonderful!

Suspect if the flowers came from Netherlands as many do, it may be another Brexit “benefit” of longer transit times etc. Same with fruit which has also markedly deteriorated.

My M & S ones from a DD at the weekend were a bit disappointing. They were full blown roses, apart from two stems of wild roses, one of which is withering. Some of the outer petals of the main roses were browning round the edges, and are now beginning to fall. The flowers could hardly be seen for the obscuring dozen stems of decorative leaves. I would much prefer to have flowers before they are fully open.

How disappointing for you. On 19th Jan my DH gave me a couple of bunches from Lidl. Then I had a family birthday celebration on 26th January (my birthday is 30th). I was given a beautiful florist’s bouquet &. freebie bunch of daffodils from Waitrose. By the time of my birthday on 30th the bouquet was definitely wilting & the Lidl flowers & daffodils were still going strong. A week later the daffodils were out of the running too. I eventually gave up on the Lidl flowers after 5 weeks! It was incredible how they just kept going!

definitely let them knowe about it ..show them pictures, the price of flowers goes up so much for mothers day.

I’m not a fan of M&S flowers I sent a friend a bouquet with a bottle of champagne for a special birthday and their delivery driver delivered them to the wrong house. Took over a week to get the problem sorted. This was the final straw after a few other problems with their flowers either as the sender or the recipient. I usually use Bunches and my family have always been thrilled with the flowers and their prices are similar to M&S on the larger bouq

My Granddaughter in OZ sends Bloom and Wild flowers and pot plants. The flowers look quite sorry for themselves when they arrive . Following instructions, after a day they have picked up and look beautiful for quite a long time.

Several years ago , a local florist left an arrangement on our doorstep in November. You can imagine what it was like when we arrived home several days later..

It’s the mother’s day effect. Demand >supply. Like sub-standard Mother’s Day lunch. Give/get Mother’s Day treats a week or two early. Or complain

My daughter sent a large bouquet from Prestige Flowers (an on line company). They didn’t look too fresh when delivered by Royal Mail but by day 2 the roses had to be thrown out.
My other daughters flowers were must better but arrived a day late - not a problem to me but she was furious.
These florists charge high prices especially on ‘special’ days - they should provide a much better product/service.

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I celebrate one Mothering Sunday the week before the day with one son, and another the week after the day with the other! Flowers and lunch - with cards to open on the day itself.

I got so fed up with overful restaurants and hassled staff on the actual day - and usually pushing to get you out within two hours to use the table again.
The food often suffered because of the pressure.

So decided about a decade ago to use the weekend before and the one after and it works very well. Both sons and their families attend both times and we all have a great time.
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Had a pronged row with a company few years back & eventually got my money back. Gave up sending flowers then found Bloom & Wild. So far no problems so will send my DDiL flowers again soon.

Have used a couple of the flower companies who do letterbox deliveries quite a few times, but now they seem nothing like as good as they used to be. Last 2/3 were poor. Recent delivery had 3 broken stems, and more greenery than in any description picture.

Think they are resting on their laurels, and assuming repeat business, from folk making quick convenient orders, and the companies are making less effort.

Have reverted to Interflora & M&S.

This happened to be once flowers were half dead when they arrived and I didn't want to upset my friend that had bought the flowers. But florist wouldn't let me complain because I didn't buy the flowers, not fair I don't think

Any update Luckygirl3? Did you ring them?

My son sent me flowers from M&S and my daughter gave me some flowers bought from M&S for Mother's Day. They were fine.

At least you all got your flowers. My daughter ordered some for me and they didn’t arrive! Local shop, ordered online on 17 March and completely forgotten about. I chased them up by email and they delivered them at 5.30 last night. I told the woman to take them away and refund my daughter. She has refused to do so. A terrible experience.

A friend was poorly, so a few of us chipped in a fiver each and I ordered some flowers from the local florist. When I was asked about colour etc, I said whatever you’ve got. When I collected them, they looked nice enough, but when unwrapped, they looked a bit 'frugal'. She sent a thank you text with photo to the others, and when I apologised to them later, one said how disappointing the flowers looked.

I love local independent shops, but next time it was supermarket flowers

DD gave me a very pretty bunch of flowers she had bought from a friend of hers who is a florist. Unfortunately they lasted two days and all the blooms wilted and dropped. I haven’t said anything to my DD about it yet but may just mention it in passing. It’s tricky when it’s a friend..

Another vote here for M&S. I don't indulge their high prices often but flowers, always.

One son sent Interflora flowers and the other son sent Bloom and Wild flowers. Both bouquets were beautiful and I’m very pleased with them.

I took the bouquet I received back to the shop. It was M& S . The manager refunded them and told me to select flowers from the range. But it’s not same as receiving a lovely bouquet and putting them in a vase on the spot. A killjoy.

Ditto to M&S for flowers, whoever said it. The other day I spent just £2 on these.

I was given a bouquet of flowers on Saturday - nothing to do with Mother’s Day.
I was very appreciative. They looked beautiful!
BUT when I took them out of the wrapping to trim etc, there were several big deep red rose petals loose among the stems. I assumed they had fallen in from another bunch.
However, it was one of the three roses in the bouquet that had lost the petals. And every time I gently moved it, several more fell off!
This morning I removed that rose to throw away as it was wilting so badly - as were the other two roses.
I always prick a couple of holes in rose stems and pop them in boiling water for a few seconds as I was shown many many years ago, to prevent them from wilting. That hadn’t worked this time.

I would definitely complain .
I've stopped using the local florist,because she refused to acknowledge the poor quality of flowers that I sent to someone who was ill .
Yesterday,I met another ex - customer who was not happy with her prices .

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Try again, then I'm off out.