Top notch florist that doesn't charge the earth! Great quality flowers and beautifully arranged…read more The staff are extremely helpful and come up with some excellent creative ideas if you're stuck for finding a present for someone and balance this wonderfully with great empathy shown if the occasion is of a more solemn nature. I would recommend this florist to anyone!

For all floral needs this shop is first class. Flowers are fresh every time. They can cater for…read moreLarge events, or if you just want them to make up a little bunch as a prezie for someone don't feel embarassed you can just ask they are more than happy to help. I have over the years shopped here for sad occasions and happy ones. I have never been let down and the staff are lovely. Although I live away now I would go the extra mile to use this shop.

So, I was served this morning by Sarah and Julie and it has to be said...what a team! They pulled…read moreout all the stops to make a beautiful large, luxury. Festive Floral basket working to a very tight deadline. They couldn't have been more helpful, efficient and friendly. Thank you so much ladies. The recipient of the flowers was overwhelmed with what you put together for her and I'm incredibly grateful to you. You're are a real credit fo the business and a big reason why I would use Betty's Florists again.

I have dealt with this business for the last 10 years+ and have had great service from the previous…read moreand new current owners. I live in Vancouver Canada and used to have flowers sent to a Cardiff care home. Never had any significant issues. One time there was a minor hiccup and that was more than corrected on the next delivery. Highly recommend this place of you need flowers in the Cardiff area.

All what I askef for was met, I do not really know how to thank you for the service you have…read moreprovided my family for our grandmother. You and your collegues were gentle and caring. We thank you again for what you had done for us, Sady and Family X

From the owner: A Personal and Compassionate Service for Families of all Faiths and None…read more If you need immediate assistance we are available 24 hours, 7 days a week throughout the year please contact us. We are here to help and support you.

other than Health With Herbs at 124 Cowbridge Road East. Laura's would therefore be a fruiterers…read moreand florist of distinction by default if it weren't for the fact that it would still earn this title even if half of the fruit and veg shops of Cardiff were lumped together in a row. Run by a husband and wife team who really take care of their business, and stocking everything that you could ever feasibly wish for at extremely affordable prices. They even had beautiful doughnut peaches in the last time I paid them a visit. Delicious! It's just a shame that there isn't an equally good butchers across the road to compliment their efforts. Instead there's a Tesco's!

There are some shops which will survive the times, no matter what. They're like cockroaches While…read moreall the supermarkets crumble and burn, these shops will forever remain sturdy and loved. It's amazing really! This greengrocers sells some of the loveliest fruit and vegetable that you'll find. It makes such a nice change to be able to walk into a shop and see earth and leaves and think, oh yes, that's right, vegetables come from the ground! And apples grow on trees. It's all too easy to forget this when you're just picking up plastic bags of fruit from the supermarket. The service here is wonderfully friendly, and they never fail to stock beetroot and rhubarb when I want it most. Satisfactory indeed, my friends. This is a definitive cockroach shop, in a good way! If only Laura's was in Penarth instead, then it would pretty much be perfect.

This is a smart little florist sourcing its flowers from Holland, and staff there go out of way to…read moreget your arrangement just right. As you'd expect, they cater for all occasions. They can dress a hotel for a wedding reception, decorate a marquee for your celebration, and design beautiful buttonholes for your wedding, working with ideas you already have - or coming up with ideas for you if you're stuck. Depending on the season and the type and duration of the event, they know what type of flowers will hold up to the rigours of the day - and can avoid those that will die in the wrong conditions.

My friend got her wedding flowers from Barkways last year and they gave an amazing service right…read morethrough. She had something quite specific in mind and they listened to her requests, came up with some really cool ideas. They really knew their stuff and also helped her to find ways to keep the costs down. Everything on the day looked perfect and they still looked fresh at the end of the night. Luckily I got to take some home!

Gift shop? Flower shop? Or café? It's certainly quite hard to actually define Garlands…read more Considering the name you'd believe that Garlands primarily focuses on flowers, but I was actually quite unimpressed by their flower selection. You can certainly buy some nice simple flowers to perhaps brighten up the house, but I wouldn't recommend them if you're after something more special (I would not be pleased if my boyfriend gave me flowers from here). But flowers aside, Garlands is simply wonderful if you're after a gift, but don't quite know what to buy. They sell a wide variety of items including; posh crockery, vases, photo frames, clocks, toiletries etc... all of which are highly unique. As Cardiff is sadly lacking a Cath Kidston, I was most pleased to discover that Garlands stocked a small range of this brand, which is better than nothing. I have never eaten in the café so don't feel I can really pass judgment, but as for the décor it was quite simple. So don't get your flowers from here, but absolutely check out the gifts, as you won't find anything else like them in Cardiff.

I ordered flowers for my mother's funeral and the flowers were not the flowers I ordered on the…read morecross advertisement very disappointing on a very sad day I hoped the flowers I ordered would be the same as advertised I bought the yellow cross in good faith that I would receive the flowers advertised but I didn't not pleased

Rolfes The Florists is a flower shop that also stocks a good selection of plants and locally…read moresourced vegetables, which is a couple of doors down from Indigo Florists on Splott Road. Both of these outlets offer a quality service, and although they compete in many respects, both shops also offer something a bit different to the other. Where the flowers are concerned there's little to distinguish the two however. Both carry good quality blooms and cater for weddings, funerals and corporate clients as well as oother special events. Indigo carries a range of iconic gift items like the Betty Boop range, and Rolfes do something similar in that they sell a selection of cuddly toys that can be sold with or without a flower arrangement. Rolfes also stocks a good range of fresh fruit and veg, which is always in great condition, and so is my preferred fruit and veg outlet in this area. The history of the building that Rolfes occupies is fascinating. It use to be an old corn merchants, and still has the barn at the back where the horse and cart used to be housed. When you look down the length of Splott Road, it's hard to imagine that there would be a barn secreted away in the middle of it. II's a typical retail High Street with all of the usual modern shop fronts, that reveals very little of the history of the place. These days the barn is used to store blooms and plants, offering an ideal environment to keep the flowers at their best. This windowless space is cool and dry, which helps to preserve the lifespan of the stock.

A truly enormous garden centre on the eastern outskirts of Cardiff, conveniently situated adjacent…read moreto junction 29 of the A48M where it meets the old A48 Newport Road. It's a popular shopping destination in its own right, and is actually part of the large UK-wide Wyevale chain. As well as an enormous range of plants, seeds, gardening tools and gardening supplies, it sells all sorts of gardening-related merchandise, such as garden buildings, garden furniture, pet supplies, books, ornaments, greeting cards, toys, clothing etc. Their prices aren't the cheapest, but it's all in one place and the quality is not bad (and it is getting very hard to find independent high-quality traditional nurseries, these days). Many of the staff are not that expert in the plants, though - certainly not compared with the horticultural or botanical expertise that resides in parts of the British gardening fraternity. That said, they always seem to be pretty friendly and willing to help, and the whole experience is rather less intimidating than it can be in some traditional nurseries. For those living in hope of a dry summer, there is an extensive range of barbecues and barbecue supplies. (Note: worth getting in stocks of charcoal, as there is always a run on supplies at the first sign of Bank Holiday sun). They also have a hire service for a very extensive range of garden and building machinery, if buying your own rotovator or mini-digger seems something of an indulgence. Perfect for the would-be 'Bob the Builder' (or 'Bob y Bildar'). There's a decent sized cafe, which is quite pleasant outside the week-end peak times, although there's no escaping the warehouse 'architecture'. It's very popular with pensioners during the week. At week-ends, the whole place is packed by families on an afternoon out, which makes for a slightly more stressful shopping experience. The centre has toilets and is designed to be accessible for wheel-chair users. The Wyevale website is quite interesting for the novice gardener, with a 'plant finder' facility, which tells you what you can grow in the soil and aspect of your garden.

Blooms is a massive garden centre that's easy to get to from either Cardiff or Newport, with…read morehelpful staff (though not all of them perhaps 'experts') and a huge array of plants, garden furniture and ornaments, and gardening tools and accessories. The centre is also home to a decent little book shop and a café, and it sells jewellery, clothes, pet-related products, farm-style foods and even fresh Welsh meat, jams and chutneys! Blooms even offer an equipment hire service, so you can hire garden and building machinery rather than go out and buy it if you only need it for a one-off occasion. Some of the stock can be a bit on the expensive side, but I think most big nurseries are the same, and at least you can browse around lots of different departments under one roof here.

This is quite simply the best Welsh gift shop I have ever been in. They have a huge selection of…read morewelsh gifts available including postcards, love spoons, miners lamps, silver spoons, thimbles, t-shirts, t-towels, magnets, welsh jewellery, sweets, fudge, whiskey, soft toys, coal carvings, watches, baby clothes, toys and so much more. They are right opposite Cardiff castle gates which puts them in a prime spot for visiting tourists. I wanted to find my friend a gift he would really like for his birthday and I wanted to get something useful. He's really patriotic and loves the welsh dragon design so I popped into the store to see what I could find. They staff were really, really helpful and were able to reel off a list of items they stocked that have the welsh dragon on them. After being shown numerous items the assistant showed me a pair of welsh dragon cufflinks which were perfect. They cost less than £20 which was what I told them my budget was and my friend was over the moon with them. If you need a gift for someone and you want it to be welsh then this is the best place to come

Bottom Line: The best place I discovered in Wales with the largest inventory of Welsh gifts,…read moresouvenirs, and hand-crafted art. It is also the home of the World's Largest Handcarved Welsh Lovespoon. Extremely friendly and helpful staff. Highly recommended!