Cheap Valentine's Flowers Discussion

simplysports

I know this isnt flowers but... if you visit hallmark.co.uk you can get a small personalised card for £2.50 delivered. Small is 10cmx14 so not that small either. If you enter the code 'valentine' at checkout you will receive a £1.00 off making your card £1.49. Additionally if you click through from topcashback.co.uk you will receive a further 17.5% cashback. Not much, but every little helps; Enjoy :money::beer:

Gambit

gregory77 wrote: »

Roses do not grow in winter in UK... they all come from africa grown by underpaid Kenyans, working for foreign-owned factories, who used pesticides and water from drying rivers in an arid country..

http://archive.thenag.net/valentine

:(:(

Please stop buying roses for valentines days
Cheers
Greg

That is very interesting Greg and has made me think about it all. I dont really agree with the commercialism of Valentines but still find myself buying my girlfriend flowers at Valentines as I dont want to seem un-romantic!

But following this thought about buying things from abroad from underpaid workers, shouldnt that mean we should never buy anything brand made as they are from sweat shops, or food being grown all over the world with workers being paid nothing?
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but just hightlighting the sad point that we dont know where most of the things we buy are made/grown these days do we? :think:

buckrogers

simplysports wrote: »

I know this isnt flowers but... if you visit hallmark.co.uk you can get a small personalised card for £2.50 delivered. Small is 10cmx14 so not that small either. If you enter the code 'valentine' at checkout you will receive a £1.00 off making your card £1.49. Additionally if you click through from topcashback.co.uk you will receive a further 17.5% cashback. Not much, but every little helps; Enjoy :money::beer:

Thankyou, just ordered one
'LOVECARDS' as welll gives the £1 off

shellt40

:TIn Lidl they are offering a Dozen red roses in a bouquet for only £16.99, can any one beat this? Also a deluxe valentines bouquet for £9.99 in this you get selection of flowers including Lillies, Gemini and Hypercium. Another deal is single red rose stem for £1.79. Cave Brut Rose £4.12... Happy shopping. :rotfl::p:j


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saver21

If you join the London Perfumes facebook page you can get 10% off all perfume products till Valentines day at londonperfumes

Just search london perfumes on facebook and get quote it when making your order on the website. If you are on facebook you will get the discount.:rotfl:

calico852

gregory77 wrote: »

Roses do not grow in winter in UK... they all come from africa grown by underpaid Kenyans, working for foreign-owned factories, who used pesticides and water from drying rivers in an arid country..


:(:(

Please stop buying roses for valentines days
Cheers
Greg

You're quite right Greg. Most of the smaller headed roses do come from Kenya, where it has been shown most of the workers are underpaid etc. However, if you actually pay a decent price for your roses, they're likely to come from Holland. This is generally understood for Grand Prix roses which have a much larger head.

If you want to buy roses and don't want the unethical cloud over your head - opt for companies which display either a Fair Flowers Fair Plants logo on their website - flowers24hours or arenaflowers. Flowers24 has a 10% off with coupon VALOVE14 - not sure about the others. Check out the Fair Flowers Fair Plants website to see what they're all about - some good stuff there.

Lugh_Chronain

I mentioned this to one of my brothers who says Roses do grow in the UK in winter, he says he should know as he did gardening for a living and has seen them growing in peoples gardens.

He also said at least the people in Africa are getting some work growing roses. And also said what are people going to do when someone stops them growing them?

I guess he's got a point there.

In my opinion countries in places like Africa should have the opportunity to trade their way out of poverty rather than relying on aid, rules of international trade need to be weighted in favour of poor communities.

Nevertheless, if you are concerned about the ethics of growing roses then check the labels for the country’s origin before purchasing.

sammy37

I buy fresh flowers from Aldi, very satisfied. Ordered a bouquet to be sent to a friend, still waiting for it to arrive!!!!!
When I asked where it was, I was told the post code was wrong and GPO couldn't send . So they were left to rot in some delivery room.
I thought GPO knew all post codes, there was a full address given.
Never again will I use ALDI

Gambit

mathew_aitken wrote: »

totally forgot about Valentines day! This thread has saved me.

How can you forget? Shops love to get money off us guys and girls this time of year and the papers, TV and even street ads are full of Valentine's advertising

boopjanine

I am all for saving money but it's the overwhelming influx of cheap nasty supermarket bouquets that is killing off the Floristry industry. Being a florist myself I know that red Roses on valentines are ridiculously priced in a Florist shop but there are alternatives - ask your Florist to do something special within your budget - there are hundreds of different flowers that are just as nice a Roses - even hundreds of different variety of rose (it's only the price of red that goes up) - they'll be happy to accomodate and then you get to give your love interest something more thoughtful and personal rather than unimaginative cheap tatt!