Birthday Flowers

About birthday flowers

Birthdays are the one occasion where you are often buying for someone whose taste in flowers you do not actually know — a colleague, a friend's partner, an aunt. That is why the mixed arrangements outnumber the single-variety ones here: they are harder to get wrong than a bouquet built around one flower somebody may dislike.

What these cost

Estimated delivered totals in this category run from $94.94 to $279.94, with a median of $99.94 — 5 of the 191 cost less than that. They cluster hard — 191 arrangements resolve to just 13 distinct totals, so a great many of these are priced identically. By band: under $104.94, 125; $104.94 – $109.94, 18; $109.94 and up, 48. Every one of those figures already includes Florist One's flat $19.99 delivery and service charge.

Delivery

• A birthday is a fixed date, which makes this the category where the delivery day matters most. Pick the date on Florist One’s checkout and give yourself a day of margin rather than relying on it arriving on the morning you order.
• Workplace deliveries need the company name as well as the recipient’s, and nobody signs for flowers at an empty office on a Sunday.

How to choose

• If it is going to a workplace, size matters more than it sounds. The median arrangement here is about 13 inches tall, which sits on a desk; the largest run to 27 inches and need a floor or a reception counter.
• Roses appear in roughly two thirds of these arrangements, usually as part of a mix rather than a dozen on their own. If you want roses specifically, the Roses category is the narrower list.
• Paying more mostly buys stem count and size, not a different class of flower. The jump from $99.94 to $279.94 is a much bigger arrangement, not a rarer one.