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Clover Blooms
The clearest published funeral pricing of any florist in this guide.
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Clover Blooms publishes its funeral prices, and in this trade that is close to a radical act. Letters from thirty-five pounds. Bouquets and funeral items from forty to fifty-five. Personalised tributes from a hundred and twenty. Anyone who has arranged a funeral knows why this matters: you are making decisions in the worst week of your life, usually by phone, usually without any idea whether the number you have just been quoted is normal, and almost every florist in Birmingham will make you ask. The shop is family owned with over twenty-five years behind it and covers the eastern estates properly: Castle Bromwich, Smith's Wood, Shard End, Chelmsley Wood, Kingshurst, Marston Green, Water Orton, plus Erdington and Sutton. That is a catchment where a great deal of the flower spending is sympathy work, and where clear pricing is worth more to people than another award would be. The limitations are hours and location. It opens Monday and Wednesday to Friday nine to five, Saturday nine to two, and is closed Tuesday and Sunday, which is an unusual pattern to remember. The address is a close rather than a high street, sitting awkwardly between Spaghetti Junction and the M6, and the work itself is conventional rather than distinctive. But on the thing this shop has decided to be good at, it is the best in the guide.
Trading is 9am to 5pm on Monday and Wednesday to Friday and 9am to 2pm on Saturday, closed Tuesday and Sunday. Delivery covers Castle Bromwich, Smith's Wood, Shard End, Chelmsley Wood, Kingshurst, Marston Green, Water Orton, Erdington, Sutton Coldfield and surrounding areas. Published prices run from £35 for funeral letters through £40 to £55 for bouquets and standard funeral items, up to £120 and beyond for personalised tributes. The business describes itself as a family owned independent florist with over twenty-five years of experience.
Best for
Funeral flowers, particularly if you are arranging them at a distance or on a tight budget and want to know the cost before you ring. The published pricing is the single most useful thing any florist in this guide does.
What I would order
Work out what you want from the published price list before you call, then ring to confirm timings with the funeral director. For personalised tributes, allow more lead time than the standard items need.
Worth knowing
Closed Tuesdays as well as Sundays, which is easy to forget, and the Saturday close is 2pm. The address is a residential close rather than a shopfront on a road, so it is not somewhere to browse. Nothing published about sourcing or seasonality.
Publishes funeral tribute prices openly, from £35 for letters, which almost no florist does.
Who it is not for
Anyone wanting to walk into a shop and look at flowers. Williams Florist on Erdington High Street is a proper high street shopfront three miles north west.
How it compares
Flower Worx covers much of the same eastern territory with longer reach and more reviews but publishes no prices at all. For funeral work specifically, Clover Blooms is the clearer choice.
Getting there
Hamble Close, Castle Bromwich, off the Chester Road side of the area. This is a car errand, and an awkward one given the surrounding motorway junctions. There is parking on the close itself.
Where this assessment comes from
Desk research only. The prices, hours, coverage and the twenty-five-year claim are all taken from the shop's own published pages, which is a stronger basis than most entries in this section have. The founding year shown is an approximation from the stated experience rather than a documented date.
Sources consulted: The business's own website and its funeral, wedding and delivery pages carrying the price list, hours and coverage area, plus Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield florist directory listings.
This is a desk-based, opinion-led write-up, not an inspection: I have not audited this business, tested a delivery, or spoken to the owner. Everything above is one person’s reading of information that anyone can look up, and none of it represents the views of the owner of this domain. If you run this shop and something here is wrong or out of date, please tell me and I will fix it.