ABOUT US

The Bexley store is located at:

2733 E. Main Street

Bexley Ohio, 43209

(614) 235-4510

Bexley Store Hours:

Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm

Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Sunday Closed (appointment only)

The Downtown store is located at:

88 E. Broad Street

Columbus Ohio, 43215

(614) 220-9088

Downtown Store Hours:

Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm

Closed on Saturday & Sunday

The University Store is located at:

243 W. 11th Avenue

Columbus, OH 43201

(614) 421-1600

(near the corner of Neil & 11th Ave.)
Next to Adriatico's Pizza

University Store Hours:

Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm

Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Sunday Closed (by appointment)

"Flowers Help Grow Minds" is Christine's Garden & The University Flower Shop's Community Outreach program that we created to help support organizations that help children reach their full potential. We support the follwing organizations in Central Ohio:

Parent Teacher Organzations & Associations

Nationwide Children's Hospital

The Children's Hunger Alliance

The Buckeye Ranch

The Childhood League Center

The Ronald McDonald House

PTO Fundraising

We support all Parent, Teacher Organizations throughout Central Ohio. When it comes to kids and education we think this is a great way to pay it forward! This type of fundraising is easy and it works. For every order placed on our website or over the phone we will donate 10% up to $5.00 per order to your PTO. All you have to do is register your PTO with us in advance and we will do the rest. There is no limit to how many times they can order and the offer is good all year long.

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Christine's Garden has been the exclusive florist for the Nationwide Children's Gift Shop for over 8 years. We are extremely proud of this partnership and work hard to support the Hospital. Everytime you buy a silk butterfly to add to your flower bouquet, we will donate 50% of all butterfly sales proceeds to the Hospital through our "Butterflies for Kids" Program.

The Children's Hunger Alliance

You can't feed minds on an empty stomach. No one does a better job feeding kids in Central Ohio than the Children's Hunger Alliance. Please use the PROMO Code (CHA10) and we will donate 10% up to $5.00 for every order to help feed kids. Together we can make a difference and break the cycle of childhood hunger in Central Ohio.

The Buckeye Ranch

Their name speaks for itself! The Buckeye Ranch has a great reputation for caring for troubled adolescents. If you're a big supporter of the "Ranch", this is a great way to donate everytime you send flowers. Please use promotion code (FHGMBR05) and we will donate 10% up to $5.00 per flower order, each and everytime!

The Childhood League Center

The League provides early learning opportunities for children right here in our community. There is no better time to get started helping kids reach their fullest potential than in the first few years of life. The best thing of all is the League does all of this free of charge to these great kids! What more can we say. We will donate 10% of each order up to $5.00, please use promo code (FHGMCLC10) when ordering.

The Ronald McDonald House

more to come . . .

With three stores and still growing Christine's is a family owned and operated small business. Our professional Certified Florist staff is dedicated to making your floral experience a pleasant one. Through our website we provide a convenient 24-hours a day shopping experience. Check out "Meet our Staff" on the left side column to see all the people that make our company shine!

Thank you for shopping with us. Stop by and visit us at any of our store locations.

For many years, the main method to send flowers long distance was to contact your local florist and they would use a wire service to electronically transmit the order. They we're part of a national group of flower shops that communicated through this service. It's still a good way to send flowers when you don't have time to research a shop yourself. Your local florist is responsible to you for a number of reasons, including the fact that they know what you like and don't like, they know your style and preference and most of all you know them! They're your neighbor, you see them at the grocery store or at a PTO meeting and even better yet, sometimes they're a close trusted friend.

Today, Order Gatherer's (OG's or Affiliate/Brokers or Wire Services) make up over 50% of all flower sales in the U.S. and never once do they make or create one of these beautiful arrangements they are trying to sell or broker. These internet sales give them huge marketing budgets that small shops can't begin to compete with. That money comes from you, the consumer. The OG's don't just make up over 50% of the sales volume, they often keep over 50% of the money a consumer spends on an order. Here is just one example: You want to spend about $40.00 on flowers, you then go to one of these OG websites by accident or on purpose. They show the same arrangement that many other websites carry only they have discounted the item by $10.00 to get you hooked! You think, "What a great deal", they charge you $30.00, and you think you're going to get a $40.00 arrangement. Then they charge $14.95 for a delivery/handling fee and $3.65 for tax. The grand total is $48.60 (the catch is, you think you are still going to get a $40.00 flower arrangement, so the total sounds great to you).

Now the facts: The order comes over one of the wire services to a local florist, like me: I get only $30.00 from that OG, (they often keep the entire $14.95 delivery/handling fee for themselves). In their fine print they say the delivery is actually included in the price of the arrangement. The $30.00 that I get is what I'm responsible for to fill the order to, not the $40.00 they we're promising you to get you to bite. The real kicker is that I only get 73% of the $30.00, the other 20% goes to the OG for "gathering" the order and the wire service gets 7% for "transmitting" the order plus they charge me an additional $1.75 to send the order to me. The final amount I receive is $20.15. about 43% of the original total you paid. We call this a "false expectation" that the OG's have placed on both you and I. The national average delivery cost is around $8.00, so the total I have for the arrangement is $12.90. So when the recipient calls to complain about how small the arrangement was and that they know the sender spent almost $50.00, their experience and your's is ruined as well as the fact that my reputation gets tarnished during the whole process. I can only apologize to them for this false expectation the OG has placed on us and the person who sent them the flowers. This is where the term "False Expectaions" comes from. No wonder over 90% of all the complaints filed last year in our industry with the Better Business Bureau come from the top 8 OG's. The only winner here is the OG. Next time you need to send flowers, call your local florist and get what you pay for, it's that easy. We even guarantee it! We will match any websites final price on all local deliveries. Stop throwing your money away by using Order gatherer websites and make a real connection back to your community by shopping with a local business.

With locations in Bexley, Downtown Columbus and the heart of the OSU Campus, we easily service the following areas in central Ohio: Bexley, Blacklick, Canal Winchester, Clintonville, Dublin, Gahanna, Galloway, Grove City, Groveport, Hilliard, Lewis Center, New Albany, Obetz, Pickerington, Plain City, Polaris, Powell, Reynoldsburg, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Whitehall and Worthington.

The Bexley Store and the University store locations are open from

8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Our Downtown location is open

from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

(All three stores deliver on Saturday, please place your orders by 5:00 p.m. Friday sfternoon for Saturday delivery.)

We are closed on Sundays.
Call for special appointments

To help assure on-time delivery during the busy holiday season, place your order at least 1 day prior to the following major holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Administrative Professionals Week, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.

Our shop will always be closed on the following holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.

Please email all questions to:

CHRSITINE@FLOWERSANYHOUR.COM

The Bexley store is located at:
2733 E. Main St. Columbus Ohio, 43209
(614) 235-4510

The Downtown store is located at:
88 E. Broad St. Columbus Ohio, 43215
(Inside the Key Bank Building)
(614) 220-9088

The University Store is located at:
243 W. 11th Ave
Columbus Ohio, 43210
(near the corner of Neil & 11th Ave.)

Christine's Garden is the exclusive florist for
Columbus Childrens Hospital Gift Shop.
Call any store to order or stop by
the gift shop to Pick up a Bouquet.
Located at: 700 Childrens Drive
(Inside the Gift Shop)

We specialize in the following services:

• Large inventory of fresh flowers
• Harry London Chocolates
• Tropicals
• Plants
• European/dish gardens
• Contemporary and traditional arrangements
• High-style floral arrangements
• Silk arrangements
• Dried floral arrangements
• Weddings
• Funeral designs
• Extensive gift line
• Gourmet and fruit baskets
• Gift baskets
• Greeting cards
• (Avanti)
• Candles

All local delivery fees will vary from $7.95 to $13.95 depending on the address and zip code.  (The majority of our deliveries are $9.95).

For deliveries outside of our local delivery area there will be a $10.00 flat rate delivery fee (which goes directly to the receiving florist) along with an $8.00 Relay/Internet Processing fee. (This breakdwon is as follows: The Relay fee portion on all our internet orders is only $3.05, the remainder of the fee is for the Internet Processing charge of $4.95, for a total of $8.00) Order Gather's charge exorbonate fees for sending your order out, they also keep most of those fees, never explaining their fine print!!!  We break it down completely so you understand where every dollar is going and how much we charge to handle your order.

U.S. orders must be received before 2:00 p.m. in the recipient's time zone to assure same-day delivery. Orders received after that time will be delivered the following day.

We will always make at least one attempt on the requested delivery date. If however the recipient is not home and there is no one to accept the flowers, we will tag the door and leave a voice message (if a phone number is provided) and wait for them to contact us before redelivering. We do not guarantee redeliveries on the original delivery date, but we will redeliver at no extra fee on the next business day if we have made contact with the recipient to coordinate a new delivery.

If you make a request for a change of address once the flowers have made it on the truck and are enroute, their may be an additional delivery fee charge. Please ask for a manager if you have to change the delivery location.

We will do our best to accommodate deliveries at specific times of day, but we cannot guarantee it.

We are unable to make deliveries on Sundays. Deliveries requested on this day will be delivered the following business day.

Delivery of orders to rural route addresses or cemeteries cannot be guaranteed.

We will be happy to accept your international orders if you call our shop directly. We are unable to accept international orders over the Internet.

All internet orders include a $4.95 processing fee.  If you decide to cancel an internet order that is scheduled for wire out, pick up or delivery, the processing fee will still be charged to your credit card along with any aplicable taxes. If by accident you create a duplicate order, there will be no processing fee charge to cancel the second order. We also have a minimum product purchase requirement of $30.00 on all internet orders from our website. Our FACEBOOK specials are priced accordingly, no extra discounts or coupons are valid with those specials. We try very hard to have the lowest prices on the internet when it comes to flower buying. We offer a limited lowest price guarantee on all local deliveries in our area. If you find it somewhere esle for less we will match their final price. Many websites don't charge sales tax, therefore are lowest price guarantee doesn't include any applicable taxes.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any store location. Thank you.