Flowers have kind of became a staple present for Mother’s Day and I guess, in
a way, it’s almost a fail safe option to go for. Well, I admit that I fell into
purchasing this this year, but in a way, I wriggled out of it by having my mum
pick her own flowers.
With it having been coming up to Mother’s Day, store up and down the country
will have been flourishing in flowers and my local Tesco Extra was no exception.
With prices starting (from what I could see) £3 for a wee bunch of colourful
tulips to £20 for a Tesco Finest bouquet, there was, generally speaking,
something for everyone’s pocket.
As I said, I wriggled out of the decision over what flowers to get for my mum
by cheating; she picked them & I bought them. At least then, she’d get
something that she liked although I’m pretty sure that she would have been happy
with whatever she had gotten. She settled on a lovely £15 (later £10 thanks to a
cheeky wee voucher from Tesco’s Orchard programme) bouquet named Strawberry
Shortcake. I have to say that it was a very nice bouquet, nicer than what was in
the Finest bouquet that I had spotted at £20. In fact, I did find myself asking
myself whether or not what was being asked for in terms of price truly reflected
what was being offered. I know that not all bunches of flowers are going to be
exactly the same but even looking at the same named bouquets, some felt better
presented & had better contents than others, yet, priced the same.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve bought flowers from Tesco of course.
Normally, we only splash out on the cheap wee bunches at a couple of pounds
each. But these seemed hidden by the number of larger bouquets that were being
offered for Mother’s day. Or for a special occasion, head to an independent
florist where you don’t mind spending a wee bit more. But like all commercial
holidays (and to be honest, it’s what Mother’s Day is becoming along with
everything else) prices always go up in places like Tesco for their flowers.
Was buying the flowers from Tesco worth it? Well, past experience has shown
that normally we can get about a week out of them before they start dying off,
but the bouquet that I purchased for Mothers Day started dying 4 days in.
In normal circumstances, there’s usually something for everyone’s pocket in
Tesco’s flower range, and I guess in some instances, you get what you pay
for.
