How much would you pay for this bouquet?

£50 I think.

There are 3 large pale pink rises plus at least 12 , of what I think are, smaller cream roses plus carnations and chrysanthemums (such serviceable flowers) plus the hydrangea and all the greenery. I don't like them but would bet they were at least £60.

That is a shocker, OP. I agree it's a pathetic offering for that price.

Personally I don't like fancy florists' bouquets and I've trained my family about this! I hate:

loads of scratchy, irrelevant greenery
acres of cellophane
rafia or ribbon
showy but not particularly attractive flowers (those South African orange things, for eg)
Out-of-season flowers flown in from Kenya etc

I hate it when the detritus fills half my bin before I've even put them in water. Yes, I'm an ungrateful cow about poncey bouquets!

I go to M & S or similar, or a local florist, and buy a bunch of the same flowers in season. daffs, narciss, hyacinths, tulips, anemones, ranunculus, dahlias, larkspur etc etc. Much nicer and a fraction of the price. You can keep the lilies and tight, scentless roses.

Why do you think foliage is cheap? It takes time to cut, it's harder to condition and takes longer to grow. It's a premium product.

If you just wanted a mass of flowers, you should have got a few cheap Tesco bouquets.

An artisan bouquet will have lot's of greens.

She ripped it apart and arranged it badly.

I'm not much at flower arranging, but I do comprehend that the foliage often makes or breaks the arrangement. Very odd to see it as dispensable or a cheap filler.

£20

As others have said, it sounds like your mum chucked away half the bouquet! So it might have been value for money after all. At the moment it does look a bit like a standard £10 supermarket bouquet, but at least half of it is missing!

I always order from Bloom and Wild now they are really good value, even the hand tied bouquets they do for £45 are really nice

Plus hydrangea and foliage that will be a £50 plus bouquet. Flowers are expensive anyway and you have roses and Delphs in there. Plus the hydrangea.

@Bonbon21 those are lovely and a great price!

That's a fireplace behind them, right? So that's actually very big bouquet, and you said she's taken out a hydrangea head and some foliage, and also, it looks like a lot of the flowers are still in bud (which is a good thing because means the bouquet will last longer). So I'd expect to pay £60 for that. The issue here isn't the bouquet itself, it's the fact that half of it's been chucked away so it now looks straggly, and that you haven't considered that some of the flowers haven't opened yet.

My guess is that, if you'd shown us a photo of the bouquet before it got put in a vase that's too small and half of it got put in the bin, people would be giving you much higher estimates.

I've given up sending people flowers, they have definitely got a lot more expensive recently. I'm guessing it's going to make it harder for florists to make a living but there's psychological barrier for me at about £45 beyond which I'm just - HOW much???

A similar number and selection of flowers loose in a box from somewhere like Freddies Flowers costs £29 (you arrange them yourself with instructions). If you bought them online from a florist/Interflora and they were tied/wrapped, I would expect they would cost about £70.

I think it’s always a bit of a lottery buying flowers online unless you know the florist. At least with M&S, Next etc, what you see is what you get.

Personally, I am a fan of Freddies Flowers for value and quality because the money you spend goes on the flowers, not the florist’s time and skill, but not everyone wants to arrange flowers themselves and it’s not so impressive a gift to receive a box of flowers rather than a bouquet.

£70 is nuts! I'd have said double what a supermarket charges. For that arrangement, I'd say £20 in a supermarket, so £40 from Interflora, plus postage, so at most £50?

I mean, you can go on eFlorist and get 50 roses for £30!

Hard to say if this is good value if she has chucked the foliage and used some flowers in a different vase. I would say minimum of £45 plus £10 delivery but this is based on what is included in the photo only.

I just ordered a bunch from Fleurop for €54. Website vs. reality...! Never again.

The flowers have been really badly presented in the vase and half of it chucked out.

£70 I think is about right. Flowers are expensive and people do actually need to make a living.

On the basis that some of the display was chucked away, I’d say £40-50.

I paid £30 for this from a small local florist, collected from her shop, amazing perfume.

There was no picture on the website, just said florist's choice and then could choose how much to spend

Unfortunately that's a recipe for disappointment; it can work with a really reputable florist, but too often it means shoving in whatever rubbish they can get away with

To my mind the content you described should have been £40 at the very most, so at a ridiculous £70 plus delivery I'd be leaving an honest and factual review

I’ve always found they do this, such a rip off. There’s never any perfume either.

I have used Scilly Flowers and Cornish Blooms successfully. Other friends have said M&S are good. I have also rung a florist local to the recipient and come to an arrangement with them (forgive the pun!).

I paid £35 for something better than that from Next recently. Only annoyance was that the delivery company just dumped them outside the front door when nobody answered.

£60+

'Filler' foliage isn't cheap, and often lasts a few weeks longer than the flowers - when the feature flowers die off in a bouquet, I pull them out and replace with basic supermarket roses/tulips/freesias, and the arrangement's good for at least another week.