The Flower Centre on Northfield's high street is packed full of beautiful flowers and is renown…read morelocally for its striking window displays. I love wandering through the forecourt and shop, admiring the great selection of cut flowers in a whole miriad of colours. You'll be spoilt for choice with the range of flowers from the unusual & exotic to traditional country flowers, but don't worry there are always plenty of staff on hand to advise you - they're so helpful and have been very patient while I keep changing my mind as to what I'm looking for! I've bought flowers for all sorts of occasions - including Christmas, birthdays and colleagues' leaving presents - and they're always gorgeous and very reasonably priced for the high quality you get. They also have a selection of readymade bouquets and stock all sorts of extras like potted plants, teddies, chocolate, champagne, balloons, vases and fruit baskets. The Flower Centre takes telephone orders every day from 7am until 10pm (except Saturdays when it's 8pm), although the shop itself is shut on Sundays. They deliver in south Birmingham, and are part of Interflora so can arrange for flowers to be delivered across the world. It's located on Bristol Road South opposite Northfield Shopping Centre (which used to be called the Grovesnor). There is free short-stay parking along the road and plenty of paid parking in the shopping centre. Whether you're in a hurry to pick up flowers, want a floral display for your wedding or are looking for a gift, this shop is ideal.

This is a beautiful flower shop, which never fails to please me. I have been in a handful of times…read morewhen I have been in the Northfield area and I am always so impressed by their selection of flowers and the services that they offer. They cater for a variety of events and even boast about how they can deal with occasions on a short notice, which I think is useful for those times when you completely forget a birthday or an anniversary. As well as flowers they all sell accompanying gifts such as chocolates and champagne. I think that this is a lovely touch as then you can give someone more than just flowers. When I have been in it has only been to purchase a simple bouquet, but I have always found the staff friendly and very attentive. I have always been a happy customer. This place is definitely worth a visit!

When we moved into our new house late last year we realised we needed to buy something to brighten…read morethe front garden up. We looked everywhere but either we didn't quite like what was on offer, or if we did see something then it was too expensive. It was my daughter who noticed Budz & Woodz on her way to school one day, she'd heard me say I wanted a wooden wishing well and had spotted one outside this shop which is literally a 2 minute walk from our house. Budz & Woodz is a lovely little shop which is much more impressive than it looks from the outside. It is a florist and a shop which sells anything relating to wood, be it wooden garden objects to sheets of wood to wooden benches. The flower side of the business is excellent. They sell brilliant quality flowers at reasonable prices, I have started buying a bunch now and then to brighten up the living room which is something I've never done before. I bought the wishing well and it looks fantastic in the garden, it's beautifully crafted and looks very rustic and charming. The couple who run Budz & Woodz are lovely, they are always ready to give advice about anything and will recommend only products that are right for you. They will ask lots of questions to make sure you get the right item and this is great considering most shops of this type will try to sell you the most expensive thing in there! They also provide a delivery service for bulkier items which proved to be very handy when my fella bought a fence panel which ended up being too wide for his van!

This is a packed little florists and gift shop. The window displays are quite artful and the bright…read morebuckets of flowers outside always raise a smile. Inside, it is rammed with all sorts of arrangements, silk and real flowers and chintzy ornaments. They also sell some nice bedding plants. The flowers are beautiful, though I found them to be quite pricey - with a bunch of lilies priced at £6.50 and the freesias at £3.99. The freesias looked quite open and on the brink of being past their best. That said the roses and lilies were stunning. I guess that I'm spoilt by the low prices of supermarket flowers. This shop definitely had charm, so maybe paying a little bit more is well worth it.

Alison makes beautiful arrangements with the customers wishes in mind. Saw some of her bridal…read morearrangements and they were stunning! Well worth the money.

lovely staff, fantastic range and prices (I fill a car every month) and the plants do brilliantly…read more once in the ground, pots and baskets. They also do pre-planted baskets and pots all year and their indoor Christmas pots were beautiful and put a smile on all my family's faces. They also sell bulbs at the perfect time for planting and their half price pot collection cannot be beaten on variety or price anywhere, incredible display for a bargain price

Now I have crossed over into my 30s I feel drawn to Sunday's shopping at garden centres and looking…read moreat homeware options....as nurseries go this has l to be a five star experience. There were some hardcore Sunday shoppers here and rightly so this place is beautiful. Full on country side vibe with every possible flower and shrub imaginable! I got my trolley and causally stilled around the centre settling on buying some sunflowers and other really hard to pronounce types of flowers for my mom and dads front garden. I have no idea who named some of these varieties of flowers....but they went innnnn...I won't lie a lot of them I couldn't pronounce but I gave it a good go..with varying results.... The flowers here are super cheap too the sunflowers were like 1.50 each and most pots are below £3...bargains galore!! The only thing to note is the tills are busy...people are flocking for a wide for those bargain blooms so set out an afternoon for this trip it's definitely going to take you a a few to see everything and pay....but that's the vibe surely...loved it.