With a huge range of customisation options and add-on gifts, Bunches is a popular choice when it comes to ordering flowers online. Like many of the best flower subscription brands, it offers letterbox-friendly deliveries alongside hand-tied bouquets, and a range of subscription choices.
Our Bunches flower subscription review
The brand at a glance
- Monthly deliveries from £24.50
- 3, 6 or 12 month subscriptions available
- Hand-tied or letterbox-friendly deliveries and subscriptions
Ordering
The Bunches website is attractive and easy to navigate. When you start a subscription, you choose one of four size options, including a letterbox-friendly version, and then you’ll receive a florist’s choice of blooms each month.
If you’re buying a one-off bouquet, there’s much more choice for your order. We love the refine tool, which lets you single out bouquets with specific flowers if you have a personal favourite.
For many arrangements you can choose to receive them as a hand-tied bouquet or in letterbox-friendly packaging, and even select the number of stems in your order. Handily, Bunches lists the number of each exact flower included, so you know what you’re getting.
There’s also the option to add on any extra gifts like chocolate and a greetings card for presents.
Bunches sells house plants and hampers too, but unusually, it also gives you the option to send a card without flowers or a gift. You can even personalise it with your own photos.
As an added bonus, Bunches runs the Posy Points scheme, which gives you 5 points (worth 5p) for every £1 you spend, so you can get money off subsequent purchases.
Price
Bunches sits on the lower end of the scale when it comes to price; the Florist’s Choice arrangement is £32.50 for 13-15 stems. Alternatively, you can get 17-19 stems for £38.75, or choose the smallest option for £27.
Overall, I’d say this is great value for money and caters for different budgets.
Delivery
Our bouquet arrived in an upright cardboard box. The packaging is reasonably plain, so it might not make as good a first impression as a gift compared to other brands.
Unboxing
This is where Bunches loses points. It was quite a fumble to unbox the packaging, which has a funnel-shaped, protective cardboard sleeve inside the outer box and then two loose paper sheaths inside that.
The stems were secured in a small, plastic 'hydration box' of non-spill gel, which makes the bouquet quite top-heavy, and the prongs did cause some damage to the stems when I tried to pull them out. However, Bunches is in the process of upgrading from plastic pots to fully recyclable and compostable ones, which should minimise waste.
That said, while other flower deliveries take a few days to bloom fully, the flowers did have instant wow-factor, despite the lilies still being in bud.
The flowers arrived with a pretty greetings card with a personalised message, an information booklet and some complimentary sunflower seeds, as well as plant food in a compostable sachet.
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The flowers
Our Florist’s Choice arrangement included a great selection of blooms and although the colours weren’t quite to my taste, they all looked healthy and lasted for around a week, with some of the stems surviving for a couple of weeks.
While Bunches does have a limited selection of pet friendly bouquets, it’s worth noting the subscription arrangements may contain toxic varieties; mine came with lilies and alliums.
I would’ve appreciated more information on the flowers included in the bouquet and the materials in the packaging, as I wasn’t sure how to recycle the hydration pot and its mysterious contents.
Although it's difficult to judge exactly how sustainable any flower delivery company is, Bunches has made a real effort when it comes to ethics, sourcing blooms from FSF-certified farms and supporting disadvantaged communities.
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