Florists earn the money they make by providing you with both products and services. The flowers are their product and arranging them, storing them and delivering them are some of the services.

Growers provide you with a product, the flowers and materials to arrange them. Delivery is done by a shipping company such as FedEx.

Buying direct from the grower saves you money for several reasons:

You are not buying the service of arranging the flowers.

You have to arrange them yourself instead of having a professional florist arrange them for you. Arranging the flowers is usually made simple with materials included with your order from the grower.

The flowers don't have to be stored.

Storing flowers is expensive since they must be kept in a carefully controlled environment. Buying direct from the grower means that the flowers are cut and immediately shipped directly to the person receiving them.

Fewer flowers are wasted.

Flowers perish quickly. The only way a florist can be sure to have enough flowers is to have too many. This means that some flowers are always wasted. With grower direct, the flowers are not cut until you order them so fewer are wasted.

Shipping is more efficient

FedEx and other shipping services are super efficient in getting a package from point A to point B. A florist might have to drive to opposite sides of town just to make two deliveries.

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