Free Floral Bouquet on Sept 9/09 - FTD Good Neighbour Day (ON & BC)

[Kaylee]

FTD Good Neighbor Day The 15th Annual FTD® Good Neighbor Day® holiday will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2009.

FTD florists have celebrated FTD® Good Neighbor Day® since 1994, encouraging all neighbors to help create a friendlier, more caring and compassionate world through the gift of flowers. That's why customers are encouraged to keep one flower for themselves and give the others away — brightening the day of many other people.

Free flowers available while supplies last.

Canadian locations:

All My Flowers, Salmon Arm, BC
K&J Flowers And Gifts, Langley, BC
Sooke Flower House, Sooke, BC
Vernon Flower Shop Ltd., Vernon, BC
Dreamweavers, Etobicoke, ON
Durant's Flowers, Winchester, ON
Flowers By Lady Di, Alliston, ON
Fort Floral, Fort Francces, ON
Jeans Flower Shop, Hamilton, ON
Kara’s Rose Garden, Tilbury, ON
Laura Sharpe Flowers, Kitchener, ON
Manotick Florists, Manotick, ON
Mills Flowers, Gananoque, ON
OMNI Flowers, Brampton, ON
Patti's Flower Boutique, Guelph, ON
Shalimar Flower Shop, East Brampton, ON
Sublime Flowers & Décor, Fergus, ON
Tim Clark's Flowers, Markham, ON
VanWees Mostly Roses, Woodstock, ON

http://www.ftd.com/content/news_views/good_neighbor_day.epl

[ECHO-RUMOUR]

How nice is this, so sad not available here tho:(

[Kaylee]

How nice is this, so sad not available here tho:(

Sorry, should have put BC and ON in the title. Updated now!

[ladybug193]

Great post. Thank you Kaylee! :D

[lazy_prodigy]

Thanks Kaylee!

[smarteepants]

How does one take advantage of this offer? If I wanted to send free flowers to a neighbour, do I just call the local florist and ask to do so?

[Kaylee]

How does one take advantage of this offer? If I wanted to send free flowers to a neighbour, do I just call the local florist and ask to do so?

AFAIK, this is by pickup only! They want you to be a "good neighbour" and keep 1 flower for yourself and hand out the others to your friends and neighbours!

[natalienicole]

If this is the same thing as last year, you are suppose to bring a donated can of food in exchange. The whole idea is to give the flowers away to your neighbour. I went to one last year and the florist asked me how I heard about this and I responded "from the newspaper". She then spoke a lot how it is such a caring gesture to give flowers away and that they have participated for many years. Someone else came in shortly afterwards and they responded "in redflagdeals". How embarrassing >:(

[RestIsHistory]

Why embarassed about RFDs?

If this is the same thing as last year, you are suppose to bring a donated can of food in exchange. The whole idea is to give the flowers away to your neighbour. I went to one last year and the florist asked me how I heard about this and I responded "from the newspaper". She then spoke a lot how it is such a caring gesture to give flowers away and that they have participated for many years. Someone else came in shortly afterwards and they responded "in redflagdeals". How embarrassing >:(

[sportmiester]

Thanks for posting

[natalienicole]

Why embarassed about RFDs?

Don't think he knew it was a charitable event so it didn't seem appropriate to say rfd IMO.

[DrunkCanuck]

Great post thanks.

[sheriffabc]

Is there a donation required? If so, cash or food, etc?

[pintobean]

You guys can probably scratch Tim Clark's Flowers in Markham off your list...

I was going to go there during last year's promotion and called them before leaving work to see if they still had any flowers left. The woman who answered the phone said that they still had plenty, so I said that I was going to drop by. She said that was fine, and then told me that there was a $10 minimum purchase required in order to get the "free" bouquet. I paused for a second and told her that's not what I had read online, and she told me that they were allowed to adjust the promotion however they wanted to since not all FTD florists were even required to participate.

I haven't bothered to check in with them this year, so if someone wants to give them a try for the supposedly "free" flowers, you might want to call first.

[Yessey]

I went to Tim Clark's Flowers this morning and got my free bunch of roses. They were collecting donations for the Centre For Dreams, I did give a donation but it wasn't like I was forced to.

[natalienicole]

Was in Brampton and they were requesting to bring a non-perishable food item to receive 1 dozen roses.

[sheriffabc]

You guys can probably scratch Tim Clark's Flowers in Markham off your list...

I was going to go there during last year's promotion and called them before leaving work to see if they still had any flowers left. The woman who answered the phone said that they still had plenty, so I said that I was going to drop by. She said that was fine, and then told me that there was a $10 minimum purchase required in order to get the "free" bouquet. I paused for a second and told her that's not what I had read online, and she told me that they were allowed to adjust the promotion however they wanted to since not all FTD florists were even required to participate.

I haven't bothered to check in with them this year, so if someone wants to give them a try for the supposedly "free" flowers, you might want to call first.

Lady suggest a donation of $10