Flower Buying Online Guide
Buying flowers for someone is something we often do when we want to send a gift to someone who is a distance away from us. It can be as a thank you, a love token, or get well soon message, or for many other reasons. It has been possible for many years to phone a florist and get something sent that way, but now it’s even easier as you can do all this online and this way you also get the chance to look at the different bunches of flowers and choose what you want from an image instead of having to close your eyes and try to picture in your mind what the florist is describing to you.
Interflora is one of the best known international companies for flowers. Bringing together local florists under their banner it means that your flowers will be freshly delivered from a source local to where they are going. The website is really well thought out, and you can select the flower gift you want sent by sentiment (Sympathy & Funeral, Thank you, Romantic Gifts, I’m Sorry, Get Well, Congratulations). You can shop by occasion such as Birthday, Wedding, New Baby etc. You can shop by bouquet style, or you can look at value gifts, or even all bouquets. You can even choose SAME day delivery of your flowers to pretty much anywhere within the UK, with them arriving within 3 hours of you placing your order, as long as the order is placed before 2pm Mon-Sat. They do international flower delivery as well linking with companies and florists world wide to create a wonderful network.
Telflorist is another company who provide a similar service. They also offer international delivery, and same day as well as next day service within the UK. The website is similar, but has a few differences in that you can select your flowers by sentiment, occasion or bouquet style like with Interflora, but you can also select by price or even by bouquet colouring. This is rather a nice idea as sometimes if you know a person’s home colour scheme you can easily get something which will look beautiful and won’t clash badly.
Marks and Spencers may not be the first place you think of when it comes to sending flowers, but actually they have a rather good online store selling bouquets and other gifts including fruit baskets, indoor plants and vase arrangements. They have a bouquet of the month which changes to reflect the different seasons of the year, and an added touch is that you can choose different elements to add to your bouquet such as chocolates, teddy bear, champagne or picture frame. They don’t offer a same day delivery service, but they do offer next day delivery. Their service is also only suitable if you are sending within the UK as they don’t offer international delivery.
Whichever of these services you choose when you look to send flowers, it’s always worth looking online for discount codes such as those found on discount tart as many of these shops offer codes to give you a discount of either a fixed reduction or a percentage reduction, and this can be quite a saving sometimes.
