Buttercups & Daisies Florist Birmingham

An independent that has been trading on the Weoley Castle and Selly Oak border since the early 1990s, and behaves like it: order by early afternoon and it goes out the same day, ring up and a person answers, ask something awkward and someone with three decades on the bench takes the call.

What to come here for

The everyday half of the work is what you would expect — birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, new babies, get-well, thank-yous and apologies. Being a few minutes from the University of Birmingham, graduation season is a proper fixture rather than an afterthought.

The two declared specialities are weddings and funerals. Weddings are taken as a full brief — bouquets, bridesmaids and venue dressing — with the shop steering couples through shades and textures rather than handing over a catalogue. Funeral tributes are the other pillar: designer and specialist work, letters, crosses, sheaves and sprays, and the shop keeps a working relationship with local funeral directors so it can settle when and where the flowers need to arrive on your behalf. It also states it can produce Muslim funeral flowers the same day, since Islamic burial normally follows within a day.

The third strand is business. Reception flowers on a regular cycle, plus larger arrangements for restaurants, exhibitions, seminars and corporate thank-yous — a side of the trade most gift-led florists do not really cover.

Delivery and urgency

The rule to remember is 2pm: orders placed before it go out the same day across Birmingham, taking in Harborne, Edgbaston, Moseley, Selly Oak, Bournville and the surrounding streets. After that it becomes a next-day order, which on a Friday afternoon is worth knowing in advance.

Beyond the local ring the shop sends nationally and internationally through Direct2Florist, meaning a florist at the far end makes the arrangement, not this one. Ordering by phone is treated as normal rather than as a nuisance — useful when you are arranging flowers for a household you are not in.

Highlights

• A hard, honest cut-off. Before 2pm means today; the shop does not blur it.
• An eco range that is actually specified. Kraft paper, raffia, biodegradable string and recyclable containers, introduced after customer feedback.
• They talk to the funeral directors for you. Timing and delivery point get settled between professionals.
• Corporate and front-of-house contracts. Reception flowers on a cycle, and scale work for exhibitions and seminars.
• Trade membership and a named listing. A member of the British Florist Association, and cited by Three Best Rated among Birmingham’s top three florists for several years running.

Where the flowers come from

No market, auction or grower is named anywhere on the shop’s pages, so treat provenance as an open question and ask at the counter if it matters to you.

The shop, the service and what else they do

A small neighbourhood shop rather than a showroom, built around being talked to: staff experience is put at more than sixty years between them, and the pitch is advice rather than self-service. Alongside the flowers there are chocolates, teddies and balloons for making up a whole gift, and the eco range runs as a parallel line for anyone who would rather not send cellophane. Foam-free is not claimed, only the packaging — worth asking about if that is your reason for choosing it.

When to come and how to get there

The shop sits in the residential belt between Weoley Castle and Selly Oak, a short hop from Bournville and Harborne and well inside the university’s orbit; for anyone in the south-west of the city it is closer than going into the centre.

The busy dates are the national ones — Valentine’s Day, Mothering Sunday in March, Christmas — plus the wedding season from late spring and the summer graduations that fill this part of Birmingham. On all of them the same-day cut-off is the first casualty, so a day or two of notice buys you a real choice rather than what is left in the buckets.

Questions and answers

Will they deliver today?

Yes, if the order is placed before 2pm and the address is within the local delivery area.

Can they deliver to another city or abroad?

Yes, through Direct2Florist — but the bouquet will be made by a florist there, not here. For work by this shop, keep it local.

Is there anything for a funeral at short notice?

Yes — the shop states it can make Muslim funeral flowers the same day and will liaise with the funeral director about timing. Ring rather than order online in that situation.

Can flowers be sent without plastic?

The eco range is packaged in kraft paper, raffia, biodegradable string and recyclable containers. If you also want the arrangement built without floral foam, say so when ordering — that is not part of the published promise.

How do I know the flowers are fresh?

We repeat no freshness guarantee on the shop’s behalf. It is a walk-in shop, so the ordinary check applies: look at the stems in the buckets, and if you are ordering by phone, ask what came in that morning.

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