An independent Irish flowers magazine
Flowers in Ireland, with the figures checked
We read the delivery pages of every Irish flower service, write down what they charge and when they cut off, and date every figure. We are not a florist, nobody here sells flowers, and no service on this site has paid to be on it.
At a glance
- services compared
- 8Relay networks, online florists and one letterbox service, on the same figures.
- to deliver
- Free to €9.70The spread of standard delivery charges that are actually printed on a delivery page.
- publish no charge
- 3 of 8They work it out from the address, so the cost only appears at checkout.
- latest same-day cutoff
- 16:00Dublin and the counties beside it. Next day runs as late as 21:00.
Figures checked on
Four things this site does
Delivery compared
What it costs to send flowers
Eight services on price, delivery charge, cutoff time and how far each one really reaches. Four print a flat fee. Three tell you nothing until checkout.
Occasions
What to send, and when
Sympathy, the Irish Mother’s Day date that reminder apps get wrong, communion, debs, weddings and the ordinary birthdays in between.
Flowers
Sixteen flowers, one page each
What each one traditionally means, the months it is genuinely in season in Ireland, how long it lasts in a vase and whether anyone here grows it.
Care and Irish grown
Keeping them alive, and where they come from
The three things that actually extend vase life, what flower food does, and the small Irish growing scene behind the ninety five percent that are flown in.
When someone has died
Sympathy flowers, and Irish etiquette
Most urgent flower orders in Ireland are sympathy orders, placed by someone who has just read a death notice and has a few hours. RIP.ie is the first thing to check, "family flowers only" means what it says, and flowers sent to the house a fortnight later are often more welcome than a wreath on the day. None of that is obvious, and no shop is going to be the one to tell you.
- Sympathy flowers in Ireland
What to send, where to send it, and when a Mass card is the better call.
- What to write on the card
Wording you can copy, for a colleague, a neighbour and a close friend.
- Funeral flower etiquette
RIP.ie, removals, and what "family flowers only" is actually asking of you.
How the figures work
Every number on this site carries a date
Delivery charges and cutoff times move, quietly and without notice. So every fee, cutoff and starting price here is read by hand off the service's own delivery or FAQ page, and the date it was read is printed beside it. It looks like this:
Checked on
Where a service publishes no figure, the table says "Not published" instead of carrying a typical amount borrowed from a competitor. That gap is worth knowing about: it is what you hit at checkout when you expected a number on the delivery page. Figures older than 60 days raise a warning in our own build, which is how the re-checking gets remembered.