Flowers for Mom: Tips for a budget and out of town

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Flowers for Mom: Tips for a budget and out of town

By Marcia Pounds May 6, 2009 06:26 PM

Moms love flowers whether they live nearby or far away.

Fields of Flowers offers these money-savings tips for buying flowers for Mother's Day when you're on a tight budget:

Skip the vase and the professional designer. (Mom probably has some lovely vases and enjoys arranging her own flowers anyway.) You can do that with Fields of Flowers' "Simply Flowers" service. You choose the type and number of bunches of flowers to send, from among 35 varieties.

Field of Flowers packages them in a special way so that they travel upright in flower food solution and arrive fresh. You pay only for the flowers plus a packaging fee and normal delivery charge. A dozen long roses in Simply Flowers packaging is $12.59 plus delivery.

For information on sending flowers to moms who live out of town, check out Field of Flowers tips: Sending Flowers Out of Town. Still, it's always good to shop around, as mom would tell you!

You also can contribute to National Public Radio and send flowers to mom with a $120 donation. See Support WLRN with gift to Mom for more information. !-- Marcia "Bargain Hunter" Pounds

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About the authors

Doreen Christensen has never paid full price for anything. If there is a way to save on something, she will find it and share how you can save, too. Doreen is a senior reporter covering consumer news, health, beauty and features for the online and print editions of the Sun Sentinel. A 32-year veteran of the newspaper, she previously was a senior copy editor on the universal copy desk. Doreen spends her time off hunting bargains, clipping coupons, gardening and traveling.

Justine Griffin covers retail and marine business for the Sun Sentinel. She is a Tampa Bay native who graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2010. After spending a year covering crime in St. Augustine, Fla., she moved to Fort Lauderdale and made the switch to business journalism. When she’s not writing, she’s riding horses and spending time with her whippet puppy, Josie.

Marcia Heroux Pounds is the Sun Sentinel's workplace columnist when she's not shopping for shoes. She also writes about small business, which allows her to visit many of South Florida's unique shops and boutiques.


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