About Rosaholics

Rosaholics sends roses and seasonal bouquets cut to order and shipped from the farm rather than through a florist, and a discount code is useful on a category where the occasion sets the date and the date sets the price.

What arrives, and where

This is a farm-direct flower service delivering within the United States, so it is the right answer for sending flowers to someone in America and the wrong one for a bouquet to a British address. Orders are cut when you place them and travel in a box rather than in a vase, which is why the stems arrive in bud with the heads still closed. The range is built around premium long-stem roses by the dozen and two dozen, alongside mixed seasonal bouquets, alstroemeria, sunflowers and occasional rarities such as garden-style and dyed novelty blooms. Colours are grouped by mood rather than by variety, which helps if you do not know rose names.

Farm-direct means the flowers arrive closed

Do not be alarmed by the box. A supermarket bouquet has already spent days opening; a farm-direct rose has not, which is the whole point — you get the vase life rather than someone else. Expect tight buds that take a day or two to open. Cut two or three centimetres off each stem at an angle under running water as soon as they arrive, strip any leaves that would sit below the water line, use the flower food supplied, and change the water every couple of days. Keep them away from a sunny window, a radiator and a fruit bowl — ripening fruit gives off ethylene and shortens flower life.

Timing an occasion order

The main risk with any shipped flower is the delivery date, not the flower. Order well ahead of Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and other peak dates: prices rise, the best varieties sell out first, and carriers slow down exactly when demand peaks. Choose a delivery date when someone will be in — a box left on a doorstep in heat or frost is the commonest cause of a disappointing arrival. If you are sending to a workplace, aim for mid-week rather than Friday.

Guarantees, subscriptions and using your code

Look for the freshness guarantee and what it requires of you: most flower companies ask for a photograph within a short window of delivery, so raise a problem the day it arrives rather than a week later. If you order regularly, a repeating subscription is usually cheaper per delivery than one-off orders, but check the renewal price against the introductory one. Enter your code at checkout and confirm the total moves before paying — it will normally apply to the flowers rather than to delivery or the vase.