Changes to our Flower Delivery for 2022

Each January we carefully go through and review our sales for the previous year. Wedding work and funeral tribute orders are increasing every year, and are definitely the main areas of our business that we need to concentrate our time and efforts on, but unfortunately the same cannot be said for gift bouquets.

During the first lockdown our bouquet sales shot up, as people couldn’t buy flowers in the supermarket and wanted to send something to cheer up a loved one, so we began to offer a wider delivery service.

Although we where very busy, the figures at the end of the year where disappointing for the amount of work and effort we had put in to this service. In 2021 we decided to continue to offer delivery, but have seen order numbers drop as customers have returned to their old buying habits, which has led to us making a loss on bouquet sales. We feel this is mainly due to the wide area we where offering delivery too. It just isn’t financially viable to offer delivery to all those villages anymore so we have decided to limit our delivery option to Burscough, Rufford, Tarleton and Hesketh Bank only, they are our nearest and easiest accessible places, plus the areas we had most orders for.

However all is not lost if you still want our flowers, as we are now offering collection of bouquet orders from our studio.

Please do order them at least 24 hours in advance via our website, where you will find a new box on the order form asking if you wish to have them delivered to Burscough, Rufford, Tarleton or Hesketh Bank; or you would like to come and pick them up from us.

We understand this may be disappointing for some, it is for us too; but at this point in time we have little option. We did consider increasing our delivery price, but for Aughton, further parts of Scarisbrick, Parbold or Croston we would need to be charging at least £11 just to cover the driver and vehicle costs and we don’t feel this is doable. We also considered scraping delivery entirely, but wanted to give it another twelve months to see if this limited delivery area can work.