Shopping Online For Mothers Day Flowers
During Mother’s Day week, online flower sites see a 504% increase in web traffic compared to the previous five weeks, with 4.2 million visitors arriving to do their last-minute Mothers Day flowers shopping. The top-visited site was www.ftd.com, with www.proflowers.com coming in second place and www.1-800-flowers.com ranking third. The week before Mother’s Day, $200 million had already been spent in making Mothers Day special.
If you feel like she’s seen it all, then here are some unusual and unique selections for Mothers Day flowers. At www.proflowers.com, the $89.98 “Bamboo Forest” is an intriguing concept, where you get a kit with an electrical water pump, colored stones, several shoots of bamboo, a faux antique bowl and instructions on assembling this tranquil centerpiece.
Bill Strauss, president of Pro Flowers, says their selections are “bigger, fuller and contain unique flowers,” in addition to being arranged by hand, rather than assembled in the field. You can order online Mothers Day flowers even at the last minute, without paying a fortune for shipping.
While you’re looking for Mothers Day Flowers online this year, you may decide to give two gifts for the price of one by selecting a site that donates a percentage of the proceeds to a charity. For instance, a $49.95 bouquet of ten white Siberian lilies from www.organicbouquet.com will benefit Project HOPE medical training and health care education.
Also, the $29.95 bouquet of twenty Peruvian lilies benefits PETA animal rights. At www.proflowers.com, you’ll find “the Pink Ribbon Collection,” which donates 10% of the revenue to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. You can choose from a potted tree for $24.99 all the way up to a pink bouquet for $69.99.
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