09/08/2026
Running a small business in the current climate is always risky, especially growing a product that isn’t essential 🌸 however I always constantly doubt myself on my prices even though I know, you definitely get good value with my bouquets! 💐
This image just shows you, when you spend £25 on a bouquet with me. Why I actually charge the prices I do and actually where your money is really going because as a flower grower, I don’t think people realise you pay VAT on any product I sell!
• £5 goes straight in VAT (leaving me to make a profit on the remaining £20) 💸
• seed cost (goes up every year) 🌱
• compost cost (goes up, having to learn to use peat free and swallow up that extra cost) 🪹
• Irrigation cost (purchasing petrol to run the pump which is an ever increasing cost) 💦
• Red diesel cost (to run the tractors to actually work land down) 🚜
• General farm maintenance (from putting up a new shed, getting poly tunnels covered, buying essential machinery to operate, trimming hedges etc) 🌳
• Fertiliser (a product we can’t go without and something that goes up constantly)
• General growing costs & time (planting, seed sowing, rearing the crop, inter row cultivating, irrigating) 💐
• cutting cost & time (time for actually cutting and arranging the bouquet, equipment to cut the flowers) ✂️
• Decoration (after it’s made it’s got to be wrapped in paper, ribbons, cards) 🎀
• social media (if they haven’t been pre ordered I have to try and sell via uploading on here) 📱
• minimum wage (I have to pay myself and my dad some money for doing the job) 💴
• card machine fee (if you pay via card I pay a fee or on the website) 💳
• Tax (finally after all that, I have to pay 20% tax after a threshold) 💰
That is just a reality! I’m sure lots of people understand this and it’s very very rare I get anybody complain about the price. However this post is relevant to all small businesses out there! There is a reason we charge what we do and Infact half of the time we certainly aren’t meeting that minimum wage threshold 💐
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