Flowers in a box

The holiday season is almost here. It’s time to remember those friends and relatives that you’ve been meaning to call, but just haven’t gotten around to it. What better way to say “I’m thinking of you” than to send a beautiful arrangement of flowers. Here at Visser’s, we love the holidays and have come up with a simple tip to make your flower buying, and flower receiving, more satisfying.
1. Don’t send flowers in a box (so-called Direct Ship flowers). It seems so easy when you hear about it on the radio—send farm fresh flowers directly to your loved one. You check the website and hey, the prices aren’t that bad. How could this be bad? Well, for one thing, Grandma will have to make her own flower arrangement. That lovely professionally designed arrangement on the website isn’t really what you get. You really get a bunch of flowers stuffed in a box, and you may or may not get a vase. Now if Grandma is really talented, she may be able to turn this stuff into a real arrangement. Then again, maybe not.

Also, the flowers arrive in a Fedx or UPS truck. If the weather is too hot or too cold, you can imagine what your flowers will look like. And, you better hope that your box of flowers wasn’t underneath someone’s new computer, or maybe an exercycle.

Sure, if those things happen, you will get a new box, but that vision of Grandma standing at the door, getting her flower arrangement and thinking fondly of you just went up in smoke. Anyway, check out this video of someone receiving boxed flowers in the middle of winter. Is this really what you had in mind? If not, call your local florist.