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5 florists in City Centre, ranked
No. 16.4Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. New Street · City Centre
Petals of Piccadilly
Twenty-seven years in an arcade that used to be a picture house.
No. 26.3Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Colmore Row · City Centre
Daisy Florist
A Victorian arcade unit that has worked out the graduation trade.
No. 35.9Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Brindleyplace · City Centre
Ethos Flowers
Twenty years of Brindleyplace office flowers, and a very large website.
No. 45.3Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop. Digbeth · City Centre
Jamie Ryder Flowers
A bespoke florist in the Custard Factory, selling stock you will not see elsewhere.
No. 55.1Original illustration drawn for this site. Not a photograph of the shop.
Why there are so many
City centre florists are shaped by offices, hotels and stations rather than by people buying flowers for their own kitchen table. That produces a particular kind of shop: strong Monday to Friday trade, corporate accounts, arrangements built to survive a reception desk, and a counter positioned where somebody can grab a bunch on the way to New Street. The two Victorian arcades are the clearest expression of it. Daisy Florist sits in the Great Western Arcade above the Snow Hill tunnel, and Petals of Piccadilly has been in the Piccadilly Arcade off New Street for nearly three decades.
The other half of the city centre trade is corporate and event work. B1 Blooms is inside the ICC on Broad Street, which tells you exactly who it serves. Ethos works the Brindleyplace office blocks. Jamie Ryder operates out of the Custard Factory in Digbeth, and is the only entry on this page that feels like it belongs to the creative quarter rather than the business district.
Getting around, and what it costs
Do not drive. The Clean Air Zone charges you to enter the ring road, city centre car parks are among the most expensive in the country, and every shop on this page is within ten minutes of New Street, Moor Street or Snow Hill on foot. Expect city centre prices, which in practice means five to ten pounds more for a comparable bunch than in Sheldon or Kingstanding. The arcades are the exception worth knowing about: Great Western Arcade rents are lower than Colmore Row frontage, and it shows in what forty pounds buys.