Arena Flowers Review

Review of flower delivery from Arena Flowers

What we ordered

This is the website that claims to have no middlemen and that their motto is ‘an experience delivered’. I really like the website design, giving it marks 4.5/5.

It has easy-to-use categories to browse from (eg. occasion, types of flowers, price, colour) and the photography is of very good quality, giving pictures that are big and bright. It also makes good use of words to describe each collection, making it sound quite lovely and inviting! Arena offers many excellent designs; from elegant, contemporary options to traditional posies & simple giftwraps. Currently, there is an advantage of 5% off on orders placed (perfect timing for Mother's Day!). All you have to do is type in 'flowers' at checkout time.

Bunches.co.uk Flower Review

Review of flower delivery from Bunches.co.uk

What we ordered

My first impression of the website is that it has many consistent, good quality pictures, giving it marks 4 out of 5.

It is easy to navigate and you could search to buy using price range, types of flowers or different occasions. Their ‘classic’ range of bouquets gives amazing good value with prices starting from only £9.99 whilst its 'Platinum Collection' is their superior range of hand-tied, luxury bouquets with prices up to £38.99 (inclusive of courier delivery).

Clare Florist Review

Clare Florist Flower Delivery Online Review

'Scent of Spring' bouquet we ordered

The websites photography is very good, with at least 3-4 different views of the selected choice available to click on if you wish to have a more detailed look. I like the rather clever trick of hovering over the picture and it immediately brings up a quick description of the flowers used in the selection without having to double click onto it. However, I thought the website’s homepage looked rather busy and crowded with numerous tiny pictures on one panel (along the bigger ones in the middle of the page), lots of various other ‘useful info’ on another panel and the usual tabs along the top panel. I mark it 4/5.

Classy Flowers Review

Review of online flower delivery from Classy Flowers

What we ordered online

My first impression of the website is quite poor, giving it marks 2.5/5. It appears to have similar pictures of ‘sub-standard’ quality as other online florists (perhaps the website operated under more than one name?). I would therefore disagree with its claim that their website provides the customers with 'amazing photography of floral displays'.

Anyway, there appears to be a couple of confusion with their website. Firstly, when I tried to shop by clicking onto ‘roses’ (because they do not appear to advertise Mother's Day flowers separately), the search result came up as ‘there are no products to list in this category’. Yet, in their ‘luxury flowers’ section, they are advertising scarlet red roses at £49.99 and there are even more roses within the ‘anniversary flowers’ section. Secondly, when I clicked the 'customer service' tab on the top of the page, it brings me to what looked like an entirely different website altogether, called 'Blooming Biritain online shop'. Quite odd!

Flowergram Flower Review

Review of online flower delivery from Flowergram.co.uk

What was delivered

This is an easy-on-the-eye website, with calming light blue colouring throughout and it’s also quite easy to navigate. You can shop by browsing through selected price ranges, varieties of flowers, styles of presentation, choice of colour or even different occasions. The pictures size however, are on the small side therefore of average quality at first hand. You can get a larger version by double clicking. It does not always give exact description of types of flowers or number of stems used in each collection. It states to be ‘due to seasonal variations some items may be substituted to produce a display of equal quality and value’. As such, I would only give this website marks 3.5/5.

Flowers Direct Review

My valentines day order - 'Misty'

Other than the colour scheme used, this website is almost the twin of flowergram.co.uk. In fact, reading through the information provided, this is because the two companies joined forces since May 2007. Hence, it is not unusual to note they offer the same named selections (eg. within the ‘traditional’ collection, both websites have the same pictures of ‘Golden Times, ‘Pink Candy’, ‘Patience’, ‘Destiny’, ‘White Dream’).