How much would you pay for this bouquet?

£70! No

Use bunches next time, I paid £30 for a similar selection and included chocolates too

Also there's about 26 flowers which haven't bloomed yet and going to look daft without the padding.

Your mum has basically murdered the whole present, taking out the main feature and fillings and then commenting negatively that it wasn't much. Sorry flower sender's mum, you mucked up here.

They seem like good quality flowers at least - sometimes when they arrive they look horribly wilted and half-dead. But yes, difficult to estimate a fair price without seeing how they were originally arranged. Based on what you'd posted I guessed £55+

Foliage costs a lot as do hydrangeas. However, I think £70 is steep.

£70 is too much even allowing for the removal of sone greenery and a flower. There are not many flowers there. This bouquet should have been no more than £40.

True! If it's hand tied you definitely can't judge it once it's taken apart.

We don’t know this wasn’t hand tied - before op’s DM modified it.

Edited to say I see now they were delivered as stems. That makes the resulting “ bouquet” slightly less of a mystery. But I’d get her hand tied in future OP: I don’t think flower arranging is her vocation.

£70?!! You’re honestly better off buying flowers from MoonPig! They look better than the ones in the photo that’s for sure

Foliage is what makes the bouquet and it can be expensive.

It can also look lovely arranged on its own if there really is too much of it but, to be honest, it looks as if there was space in the vase-it would have made it all look so much more luxurious and she should not have chucked it in the bin,.

Your mum could have used the single hydrangea surrounded by foliage to make a very pretty arrangement.

A more gifted arranger could have made those blooms look magnificent, so part of the fact that they do look substandard isn't the florist's fault.

It is sometimes better, if you're not confident, to split the bouquet and make smaller arrangements.

Don't ever buy flowers on to be delivered what you get for the money you pay is ridiculous.

Looks to me as though a hand tied bouquet has been untied and things taken out. I used to be a florist. On these kinds of threads someone always says it's a rip off and they could get x from Y Supermarket for £5. There's a huge difference in the both the products, the flowers and foliage, and the skill in arranging them.

Wow.

Absolutely not!

Granted, she's thrown some foliage away, plus the hydrangea, but 70 quid?!

Absolute joke.

I get hand tied bouquets that don't have to be arranged because I'm also a crap flower arranger. You could get a lush one for £70!

I think splendid is a bit of an exaggeration.

Those plus a hydrangea and more foliage is a bit crap for £70 in my view. And I live in London

My head hurts, you can't see the difference between what you bought and a floral bouquet delivered? It's like complaining the hamper you ordered and had delivered cost more than if you popped in Tesco and bought a few bits!!! You bought a service and skill.

You were boasting.

I have to leave this thread as Op has posted a fraction of what was received, which her mum, ripped apart, binned and badly arranged.

£50+. Foliage costs as much as flowers. Hydrangeas and delphiniums are premium flowers. The arrangement looks nothing like it did when it was delivered as your mum's taken things out of it, meaning it's not fair to judge the value based on the photo. Also, what she thinks is foliage may not yet have opened?

Foliage is not just 'a bunch of leaves' when it comes to flower arranging. It's part of the whole bouquet/arrangement & can be quite beautiful or interesting in itself. And florists don't get foliage for free!

What your mum should've done is used a bigger vase & arranged the whole bouquet in it. But I agree that for the money I would've liked a few more flowers (though I've just remembered that she took out the hydrangea 🙄.)

You’re all mad!
It’s the equivalent of docs sing the value of this!

I’d be questioning wtf your mum sabotaged them? Weird. I bet it was more than one hydrangea too. What is she up to OP?

I agree that it’s impossible to say since your mum was delivered a bouquet not in a vase which she then tore apart, decided the centrepiece hydrangea “didn’t go” so removed it and left a gap, and stuffed the rest in a too small, too short vase where they are leaning drunkenly at all angles. Of course it looks shite, she’s ransacked it. 😂

My instinct is that the £70 may have been a bit much but also that chocolates are perhaps a better choice for her as a gift.

The reason they get away with this is people don’t want to say they got rubbish flowers and just say thanks! After my gran died my mum got a horrendous bunch delivered she gave them all the details and wouldn’t deal with her because ‘they didn’t recognise the order number’. She didn’t want to contact her work colleagues as she felt it was rude.

£30 max and i hope that includes delivery.

£25

£70 is daylight robbery