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Has Mother’s Day managed to creep up on you again? (How does it do that every year?) Thankfully, the best online flower delivery services offer same or next day delivery on their selection of Mother’s Day flowers and letterbox flowers. The trickiest part is choosing which affordable or luxury online florist suits you best.
From beautiful red roses to eclectic wild blooms, fresh-cut seasonal market flowers and even ‘brown bouquets’ of dried flowers, there is something for everyone. You can show support for British growers with help from the Great British Florist, while Waitrose and Marks & Spencer offer affordable bouquets.
With so many factors to consider, we’ve done all the thinking for you. You’ll find our full reviews of the UK’s 18 best flower delivery companies below. Above that, you’ll find an expert guide to how to keep your flowers fresh, which you really should read: it contains some genius ideas for extending their life in the vase. If you’re in a bit of a rush, here’s a quick look at our top five:
Which are the best online flower delivery services in the UK? At a glance
- Best online flower delivery service overall – Great British Florist
- Best flower subscription service – Freddie’s Flowers
- Best same day flower delivery service – Interflora
- Best next day flower delivery service – Arena Flowers
- Best letterbox flower delivery service – Bloom & Wild
What is the best flower subscription?
About half of our recommended delivery services also offer subscriptions, where flowers are sent each week or month. Subscriptions usually last six months or a year. Appleyard London, for example, will send you a fresh seasonal bunch of flowers each month for 12 months and, if you pre-pay with the current discount, it works out at £20 per bunch. Many other companies offer similar fixed-period subscriptions. Ongoing subscriptions are also available and usually work out cheaper per bunch.
More flower delivery FAQs
Changing the water every few days is a given, but there are some less obvious tricks to keeping your bouquet fresher for longer.
“Your vase is really, super important,” explains Sophie Powell, school principal at the McQueens Flower School. “Plastic and metal – those particular materials generate bacteria a lot quicker than a glass vase, so perhaps invest in a really nice glass vase.”
If you are using a plastic or metal vase, Powell recommends changing the water every day – or at the least, every few days. You can tell when the water needs changing because it will go cloudy.
When filling up your vase, you should use cold water, Powell says, because this is “like slowing down the ageing process”. Warm water, as well as warmer environments like window sills, encourage the flowers to bloom earlier, which means they will have a shorter life span.
Trimming your stems every few days can help your flowers live longer, too. “Often when they’re sucking up water, they’ll be sucking up any gloop that’s in the water, so that can often block the ends of the stems& – so cut that off. It’s a bit like dead-heading your hair – getting rid of any split ends.” She recommends taking 1cm cuts each time.
A good quality bouquet of fresh, seasonal flowers should last five days, Powell advises.
However, this will vary, depending on the stems. “If you’ve bought something that’s a little softer – more like wild flowers, little delicate things – they might not last as long because their natural habitat is in a shady environment – in a park or something like that.”
Most flower delivery sites boast that they only use seasonal flowers, but why does this matter? “If they’re out of season, they will often be very small compared to what their normal size would be,” Powell explains. “So if you were expecting some really beautiful peonies out of season, you’d get tiny little bullets.”
Looks can be deceiving on flower delivery sites, she adds. “A lot of the photos taken will be for the most luxury size – it will be the biggest size – so always double-check what size is being depicted in the picture because otherwise you might think you’re getting 100 red roses when in fact you’re only getting ten.”
Letterbox flowers are bouquets designed to fit through any letterbox, meaning they can be delivered when the recipient is out. They're particularly useful for flowers which are being sent as a surprise, like for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, birthdays, in congratulations and in sympathy. The flowers are usually sent as buds in a flat cardboard box, so they stay fresher for longer, and then unfurl once placed in a vase. Most letterbox flowers last between one and two weeks.
How we tested the best flower delivery UK
We ordered at least one delivery of flowers from each company. We were looking for four things: an easy-to-use website, a wide range of high quality flowers, convenient delivery and good customer care. Simon was ordering deliveries to London, Rebecca to Birmingham. In our reviews we’ve noted which companies offer next-day or same-day delivery and whether letterbox flowers are available – meaning the flowers can still be delivered through the door if there’s nobody home.Here’s what we found...
The best online flower delivery in the UK
1. Great British Florist
Best British-grown flowers, 10/10
We like: all flowers are grown on the same farm in Cornwall
We don’t like: because they’re not flown in, there’s slightly less choice
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 12pm, £5.95
- Letterbox flowers available: no
The Great British Florist sell fresh cut flowers, hand-tied posies, bouquets and wedding flowers grown on their flower farm in Cornwall – ‘Grown, not flown’ is their motto – so they’re seasonal. You’ll find spring flowers on offer around Mother’s Day and scented pinks and English cottage garden flowers through the summer.
We ordered a seasonal box of cut flowers (above) in February, which arrived early the next day by DPD. The box was about two feet long and absolutely full of tulips, hyacinths, paperwhites, alstroemeria and other flowers in bud and bloom, which filled the room with fresh green aromas. We split them into small vases to dot around the living room.
They also specialise in dried flowers starting from £45, which make good wreaths, posies, corsages and buttonholes for weddings, as well as bigger dried bunches for the home. These dried flower arrangements can also be sent as letterbox flowers (the fresh bouquets can’t).
Flowers are dispatched Monday to Friday, so choose which day your flowers arrive between Tuesday and Saturday.
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2. Arena Flowers
Best next day flower delivery service, 10/10
We like: genuinely sustainable and ethical
We don’t like: some flowers are still imported from abroad
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 9pm, free on the app or £4 on the website
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Unlike most of the other florists on this list, Arena Flowers is an app as well as a website, and you can get free next-day delivery if you order before 9pm. You can also create wishlists of bouquets so your partner can take a hint and quickly order. The selling point is that they’re proudly ethical and accredited by the Ethical Company Index.
I ordered the Dawn Promise (£40 at the time), a bright, light bouquet of Cherry brandy roses, lavender anthirrhinums, lilac statice, tanacetum vegmo, pink alstroemeria andeucalyptus foliage. The bunch arrived with a good number of buds and open flowers.
10 days after delivery, they remained as bright and bold as when first delivered. It’s very rare you say a bouquet of flowers looks better in real life than the picture on the website, but it’s true here.
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3. Interflora
Best same day flower delivery, 9/10
We like: orders are fulfilled very quickly by the recipient’s nearest florist
We don’t like: that means there’s some variation in the bouquets
- Quickest delivery: same day if you order before 3pm, £10
- Letterbox flowers available: no
No list of flower delivery services would be complete without Interflora – it would be like ranking social media sites and missing out Facebook. It’s not one company, but an international network of florists – more than 900 of them in the UK – which can deliver flowers quickly almost anywhere. Next-day, same-day and even three-hour delivery are available on a range of bouquets and they are all delivered by hand.
As the company uses so many different florists, it has to be a bit less specific on the website. You order a ‘handcrafted spring bouquet’, a ‘pastel gift box’, a ‘hand-tied brights bouquet’ and so on, allowing the florist to choose the specific flowers – although you can add requirements, such as no lilies if you’re allergic. You can also tell the florist who it’s for and what the occasion is.
Roses seem to be the only flowers you can order as a single variety: all the other options are for bouquets.We ordered the Luxury Bright Bouquet (£50 at the time) which a local florist walked round on the same day. Their selection of tulips, carnations, narcissi, mimosa and small-head roses looked stunning. Although some people don’t like not knowing who will be making the order up, it felt good to support a local business.
Interflora sometimes feels like the ‘corporate’ choice but the prices seem fair – they’re basically what your florist would charge you in person – and the site covers pretty much everything you’d need to send flowers for, including letter arrangements for funerals. It’s also the easiest way to send flowers abroad, for example to friends celebrating their anniversary in a hotel.
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4. Freddie’s Flowers
Best flower subscription service, 9/10
We like: the flexibility of the subscription
We don’t like: when ordering one-off gift boxes, the selection is not huge
- Quickest delivery: this company delivers flowers on the weekday they are freshest in your area
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Freddie’s Flowers has a friendly feel to it. It’s hard to explain why - perhaps it’s the website, headed and sub-headed in handwritten fonts with images of Freddie hand assembling the letterbox flowers. It all feels quite personal. If you told me Freddie, who was inspired to start the company after growing up in his parents’ flower shop, actually hand delivered every single bunch of flowers, I’d believe you.
Each week you’re sent a bunch of flowers, thoughtfully chosen depending on the season. Each customer gets the same flowers. Freddie’s Flowers works directly with its growers and only picks flowers to order, meaning they cut down on waste. All deliveries are also carbon neutral.
When I subscribed, my first delivery was Everlasting Love (above): a collection of roses, lilies, alstroemeria and bog myrtle. They are all sent as long stems. Feeling like a florist, I arranged the majority in a larger vase then cut some smaller roses and alstroemeria into smaller pots and jars to stand in bedrooms and the bathroom. They started as buds, but began to blossom on the second day. I was seriously impressed by the longevity of these bold blooms.
The flower subscription service delivers between 10 and 15 stems sent per week for £25 and a free vase if you order a showstopper bouquet. You can choose to skip weeks, meaning you can personalise the service to every fortnight or even keep it to a once-a-month treat. You can also pause and cancel the subscription.
Freddie’s Flowers also sells one-off gift boxes. It’s a simplified range, with just four or five bouquets to choose from each week, available in letterbox, classic and showstopper sizes. The flower team works with growers to change the weekly bouquets, always using the season’s freshest flowers. The stems arrive in bud and last two or more weeks.
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5. Bloom & Wild
Best letterbox flower delivery service, 9/10
We like: much bigger letterbox selection than other flower companies
We don’t like: prices are a little high, reflecting their cult status
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 10pm, free
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Bloom & Wild were among the first to offer letterbox flowers, where they’re packed in aerated boxes slim enough to fit through the front door, meaning the recipient doesn’t have to be in to take delivery. In order to fit in the smaller box, they’re sent in bud, opening out after you arrange them in water. You do have to explain this to the recipient sometimes.
As innovators they’ve gained a cult status, with people forming attachments to their dozens of named bouquets like the £29 Mia (carnations, solidago, freesias, eucalyptus, rosemary and asters). You can also buy someone three months of flowers, six months or even a year’s worth.
We ordered the Nadia (£50 at the time), a 23-stem bouquet of roses, alstroemeria, snapdragons, greenbell and eucalyptus, which came by Royal Mail in 48 hours, arriving on a Sunday. The flowers were in full bloom by the end of the day.
Bloom & Wild offer free trackable next-day delivery and free same-day delivery for certain London postcodes, although you can pay £5 for a courier service. If the flowers aren’t fresh upon arrival, you can send a photo to the company and receive a new bunchor a refund. They’re not a budget choice, but on the whole, they offer good value for money.
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6. Bloom
Best fresh market flower delivery service, 9/10
We like: the choice of affordable single-variety seasonal bunches
We don’t like: the luxury bouquets are very expensive
- Quickest delivery: in three days, free
- Letterbox flowers available: no
Set upat the end of 2020 by London florist anddesigner Larry Walshe, Bloom promises ‘fabulous flowers that don’t cost the earth’ – which must be a reference to their eco-friendly ethos (they’re completely plastic-free and aspire to be carbon neutral), because the hand-tied bouquets start at a distinctly ‘luxe’ £93 and rise to £208.
The fresh market flowers are cheaper, however, and the selection is fantastic. When we ordered, we could choose from roses, tulips, hyacinths, lilies, lisianthus, mimosa, freesia, alstroemeria, irises, paperwhites, snapdragons, lilacs, scabiosa, anemones, tuberose... basically anything you could find at a proper flower market.
Prices for these single-variety bunches start around £30. We ordered 30 ballet slipper pink ranunculus (from £54, above) which were delivered the next day by DPD and expanded into a gorgeous pink profusion after about 24 hours. Another neat feature is that, if none of the expensive pre-made ones tickle your fancy, you can design your own bouquet, right down to adding foliage. It’s nearly as good as actually going in person to your local florist – although you do pay for the privilege.
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7. Flowerbx
Best flower delivery company for roses, 9/10
We like: they specialise in single-variety bouquets (all red roses, all pink tulips etc)
We don’t like: the prices are a little high
- Quickest delivery: same day in London if ordered before 1pm (£15), elsewhere next day if by 1pm (£10)
- Letterbox flowers available: no
Flowerbx started when the founder Whitney Bromberg Hawkings went in search of luxury, single variety flowers at an accessible price point. Finding them hard to come by, she decided to start her own business. Flowerbx quickly won an upmarket reputation – although not all of its single-flower bouquets quite match the ‘accessible price point’ description any more. (You can order 1,000 roses for £3,199.) They are all sustainably sourced and impeccably presented and you can select them by variety, by colour and by occasion.
We ordered a bouquet of 20 long-stemmed ‘sweet avalanche’ delicate pink roses (£80, above), which were delivered early the next day by a man who clearly loved his job, always a good sign. They looked gorgeous on arrival and stayed at their best for almost a week.
Flowerbx also sell plants such as orchids, candles, fragrances, vases and home accessories – but it’s the single-flower bouquets that really set them apart.
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8. Bunches
Freshest flower delivery, 9/10
We like: every stem has a seven-day freshness guarantee
We don’t like: there’s not the biggest choice (although every bouquet on offer is beautifully thought out)
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 5:15pm, £2.99
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Family business Bunches have sold over seven million bouquets since they opened in 1989 and it’s easy to see why the company has flourished. Most of the bouquets contain a tried and tested combination of stems – whether that be carnations with freesias, lilies with roses, or any assortment of alstroemeria.These internationally-grown stems carry a seven-day freshness guarantee.
I ordered the Sweet Violet bouquet (£42 at the time) which mixes white roses with lilac blooms and eucalyptus and green bell foliage. The result was a striking, full arrangement which looked beautiful on the kitchen table. The flowers arrived looking fresh and were as striking in colour as they look in the photo online.
The site is simple and easy to navigate, with the option to filter products by occasion, flower type and colour. There is even a live chat system, so you can message a member of their team with any queries and they will reply almost immediately (I only waited for 20 seconds). All in all, a British family business done good.
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9. Love Delivered
Best seasonal flowers, 9/10
We like: good prices and huge range (considering they’re all grown on one Lincolnshire farm)
We don’t like: you might sometimes yearn for a Kenya-grown orchid or tuberose
- Quickest delivery: next day for free (if ordered Monday to Thursday before 2pm)
- Letterbox flowers available: no
Floristry is a happy occupation anyway, but there seems something extra uplifting about Love Delivered, which grows all its flowers sustainably on one big Lincolnshire farm using rainwater for irrigation and biomass for heating. Mind you, we ordered in springtime when all 50 of their bunches were bursting with breezy seasonal colour, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Our Kitty (£30, above) was a zingy mix of narcissi, tulips and hyacinth with eucalyptus foliage that arrived in bud and took a day or two to fully open out. Once they did, the smell was lovely. They lasted a little over a week - with the hyacinth and narcissi lasting longer, transferred to a smaller vase.
The website is simple, looks good and works well. Three, six and 12-month subscriptions are available for £25 per delivery. The only slight downside was the DPD driver who left the flowers on the doorstep without ringing, a common problem with some firms. Luckily, the local thieves aren’t big on flower arranging.
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10. Lavender Green
Best luxury florists
We like: they supply flowers to Chanel, Hermes and The Dorchester
We don’t like: not a cheap option
- Quickest delivery: next day
- Letterbox flowers available: no
When the well-heeled residents of Chelsea throw a wedding reception, it’s local luxury florist Lavender Green they call for spectacular displays of the finest flowers on earth. The boutique firm supplies high-end fashion brands and hotels and has now opened home deliveries to us mere mortals.
We ordered the £95 Mondial, above, which arrived the next day and put our high-street florist’s boucquets to shame with its 12 wider-than-usual Ecuadorean roses, which live longer thanks to growing at altitude in volcanic ash. Obviously you pay for that kind of attention to detail: prices peak at more than £1,500 for a bouquet.
But if you want something really special, this is the one to go for. They deliver nationwide.
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11. Marks & Spencer
Best high street flower delivery, 9/10
We like: the free next day delivery
We don’t like: the buds took a while to bloom
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 7pm, free
- Letterbox flowers available: no
Marks & Spencer’s flower shop sells bouquets, plants, chocolates, wine, candles – and Percy Pigs, of course. All flowers are sourced from trusted growers with freshness guaranteed for five days. Whether you’re after a simple bouquet of red roses or a lavish posy of spring stems, M&S has a huge choice.
I tried the Coral Meadow bouquet for £40 (above) which combines 24 stems of coral and orange roses, blue irises, pink lisianthus and cerise stocks with green bell and laurel foliage. When they first arrived, few flowers had bloomed and the bouquet was overwhelmingly foliage. After a few days, the buds came to life and became a vibrant, eye-catching arrangement of colours which clashed in the best way.
These flowers would be perfect for anyone who needs cheering up. It’s hard to be sad around such a bright bunch.
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12. Flying Flowers
Best affordable flower delivery, 8/10
We like: friendly touches make the site a pleasure to use
We don’t like: smaller selection (although all lovely)
- Quickest delivery: next day (from a special next day section onsite) if ordered by 7:45pm, free
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Flying Flowers started in Jersey and in expanding, they seem to have borrowed the best bits from lots of their competitors. Like Freddie’s Flowers, they do subscriptions. Like Appleyard (below), they have a magazine-style website (complete with ‘trending’ section). And like Bloom & Wild, they do letterbox flowers – at a considerably lower price point.
We ordered the Sweet Love letterbox bouquet (£30 at the time), a pretty arrangement of brightly-coloured roses, irises, alstroemeria and tulips which came in the post in 48 hours and arrived in bud, opening out by the next day into a lightly-scented display for mum’s kitchen table.
Flying Flowers also tend to chuck in freebies, like free chocolates with our order and often extra stems or money-off checkout codes. The selection is small but you can also order house plants and food hampers, as well as the subscriptions. All flowers are sustainably sourced and sent in planet-friendly packaging.
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13. Appleyard London
Prices between £26.99 and £299.99
Best boutique flower delivery service, 8/10
We like: same-day delivery to most London postcodes (next-day to the rest of the UK)
We don’t like: the range is beautiful, but not huge
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order by 5:45pm, free
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Taking a leaf out of Bloom & Wild’s book, Appleyard’s website is styled to look like a posh fashion magazine, right down to the ‘Edit’ of the season’s freshest blooms. It’s very enticing, with far fewer boxes to tick and optional extras to decline – just a fairly small, but well-chosen range of plants and gorgeous, hand-tied bouquets.
Their florists select flowers from British and FairtradeKenyan farms, putting back into the communities they work with, and use recyclable cardboard andpaper in their packaging to minimisewaste. Most bouquets come the next day in a cardboard box. There are only seven letterbox options, but they’re among the nicest we found.
We ordered the letterbox ‘lemon and blueberry pie’ bouquet (£35.99, above) from the Spring Flowers collection. Made of daffodils, tulips, blue iris and green carnations, it arrived in bud and bloomed overnight into a beautiful spring display that lasted just under a week.
You can also gift or purchase a flower subscriptionfrom as little as £25a month, each month’s bouquet comprising the season’s best blooms. Special occasion arrangements are also available and Londoners can get same-day delivery if theyorder by 4pm Monday to Friday.
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14. Next
Best flower delivery company for under £30, 8/10
We like: how affordable every bouquet is
We don’t like: our bouquet looked a little sparse to begin with
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 11pm, £4.95
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
‘Value’ seems to be the word most commonly used to describe Next’s flower delivery service – which is unsurprising, given that most of their bouquets are under £40. For this price, you get between 10 and 25 stems of a mix of flowers that come from both the UK and abroad.
I ordered the Peach Letterbox Fresh Flower Bouquet (above) which was £22 at the time of buying. They arrived in sparse budded stems, but soon bloomed into a full arrangement. The pops of orange were like a sunny day brought indoors. The use of thistles as foliage added a wild edge which I love.
The site is easy to use, with drop-down menus that help you find the best bouquet for your occasion and budget. Free next-day delivery is available across the UK and they even deliver on weekends. All in all, a stress-freeflower-ordering experience.
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15. Floward
Best instant flower delivery app (London only), 8/10
We like: extremely high quality, simple arrangements
We don’t like: it’s not cheap and only covers London
- Quickest delivery: same day if you order before 5pm, free
- Letterbox flowers available: no
Floward only deliver to Greater London but we’ve included them because, for the eight or nine million people who live there, the ability to order right up to 5pm for delivery the same night could be a lifesaver. There’s an app, a bit like Deliveroo, from which you can choose from a limited range of rose, lily and tulip bouquets. You can also order on the website.
Not all bouquets are eligible for same-day delivery. We ordered 40 mixed pastel roses (£75, above), which came the next day – but looked absolutely gorgeous and lasted the best part of a week. There was also a nice touch: the sender can include a song in the form of a QR code which the recipient scans with their phone to open on YouTube.
These are some of the nicest flowers you can buy, but they don’t come cheap. Prices start at £35 for a bunch of lilies and carnations and rise to £999 for a spectacular arrangement of 250 roses.
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16. Moonpig
Best value flower delivery, 8/10
We like: you can send flowers, cards and gifts in the same order
We don’t like: you can’t add a vase to delivery
- Quickest delivery is next day if you order before 9pm, £5.99
- Letterbox flowers are available
While Moonpig –yes, the one off the dot-comjingle –may not beknown for its flower delivery service, its blooms don’t disappoint. The selection is reasonably varied and you can purchase bouquets filled with tulips, roses, peonies and chrysanthemum – all at a reasonable price.
I ordered ‘The Vintage Love’ (above) for £55, which is a spring bouquet featuring roses, clematis, eucalyptus, waxflower, purple veronica, green bell and lisianthus salmon. If you’re not so au fait with the names of flowers, the result is a gorgeous bouquet of dusty pinks, lavenders, sandy oranges and green branches with dainty white flowers as fillers.
Next day is happily the standard for Moonpig and the flowers arrived with two sachets of plant food, one for day one, and one for day four. I do think they’re a little expensive for what you get, but this is a solid option if you’ve left ordering until the last minute. The service is stellar.
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17. Prestige Flowers
Prices between £19.99 and £149.99
Best flower delivery company for variety, 7/10
We like: the vast choice of flowers
We don’t like: the website is cluttered with options
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 10pm, £5.99
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Halifax-based Prestige Flowers has been around since 2011 and first impressions are that the website hasn’t been updated since then. It is a bit old-fashioned, full of pop-up boxes and sub-menus, but arguably it has to be, since their range is absolutely huge.
When we did an online flower delivery in February, there were Mother’s Day flowers, birthday flowers, spring flowers, luxury flowers, even more luxurious ‘haute florist’ flowers, letterbox flowers and charity flowers donating to breast cancer awareness. All of these could be selected in various sizes with vases, cards and a large range of gifts added on. You can also send a voice or video message.
We ordered a large bunch of rose and freesia (above) for £34.99. For the price, I thought it to be excellent value given its large size. It arrived exactly 24 hours after ordering and looked exactly as it had on the site.
Prestige are proud of their ethical approach, never using single use plastics, adhering to ethical farming and worker’s rights, planting wildflower meadows and using solar panels to power their refrigeration units. Most of their blooms are home-grown, but some are imported from the Netherlands, Africa, Ecuador and South America.
Prestige Flowers does offer next day delivery if you order by 10pm.
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18. Waitrose
Best supermarket flower delivery company, 7/10
We like: limited range means concentration on quality
We don’t like: our flowers were dry on arrival
- Quickest delivery: next day if you order before 6pm, £4.95 or free for letterbox flowers
- Letterbox flowers available: yes
Waitrose Florist is a whole separate website to the regular Waitrose grocery website. You’ll find different categories on the website depending on what time of year you’re looking. When I did my online flower delivery, options included spring and Mother’s Day alongside occasions, gifts and chocs. The Under £30 category is particularly useful.
I tried the Floral Gathering Bouquet (£45 at the time of buying). It’s part of Waitrose’s wrap-free collection, which uses Fatsia palm leaves to hold the flowers instead of cellophane. The rubber band has also been replaced by natural twine. I’ll admit to being a little disappointed with how they arrived - appearing withered and squashed on the underside.
Thankfully the selection of peach and purple roses, allium and stocks strengthened after a few days stood in water and served as a colourful centrepiece on the table. The palm leaves are a unique addition, framing the flowers like exotic wings. Despite initial impressions, I was won over by this plastic-free pastel bouquet.
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