This is what I want a florist to provide when I send flowers to family and friends too far away for me to deliver the bouquets in person – the large one for a table greeting, the small, scented one (not needing water: gets better as it dries) for someone in hospital or otherwise wanting and needing a touchable reminder of the outdoors.
The mixture of simple garden flowers and grasses and a fern and an herb or two convey what I want to express. And what I like to receive; as I did yesterday from some very special people.
So far I have not come across a flower shop that provides this service.
I wonder why. Sending flowers through a florist is not cheap. I wonder what percentage of the cost is in the actual greenhouse flower and how much a delivery charge. Garden flowers would seem far less expensive and more accessible and worthy of consideration as a commercial endeavor by a florist. Seems to me a flower seller could fill this niche and make a success of it.
Sort of in the sense of 'stopping to smell the roses' but not the hot house kind.