Real flowers. We advocate buying flowers each week, so our eyes lit up when a reader sent in the tip that you could find organic flowers at good prices at OrganicBouquet.com. While buying fresh flowers at the Farmer's Market is the very best in terms of quality, environment and community support, this is a great alternative.
Flowers! I'd been looking for suppliers of organic flowers forever. This is where I'm ordering from for Thanksgiving. Their selection is limited but classic. They also have information about their growers for every individual bouquet. Sara
True, the website features a nice, small selection of flower and rose bouquets, and they also sell organic fruit as well. Bouquets range from $40-$60 with $12.95 for next day DHL shipping. (Thanks, Sara and Treehugger!) MGR
(Re-edited from a post originally published on 11.23.04)
Also, I was looking for organic wreaths and I found a whole listing on Local Harvest,
www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?pr=192&ty=0
But of course, buying locally from markets and such reduces the burning of fossil feuls that it takes to deliver anything to anyone (unless it's being delivered on a bike)!
Another direct-from-the-grower supplier is www.freshroses.com. They are in CA, and if not fully organic, do use integrated pest control (www.freshroses.com/politics.html#environment). I ordered some of my wedding flowers from them and they were incredibly helpful. The flowers were so fresh they lasted for over two weeks!
i ordered flowers for my mom from organic bouquet... she loved the roses and they lasted over 2 weeks! i placed the order online, but needed to clarify the address. customer service was great.
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I've used them before too and got great flowers in good packaging. The chartreuse roses lasted a long long time, too.
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I've used Organic Bouquet to send flowers to my mom twice now, and it's been great. It really doesn't cost much more than any of the other flower delivery services, and it's a better company.
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