What Are The Cheapest Flowers? (Yet Beautiful!)

Are you looking for flowers that work within your budget?

In this article, we will share a list of cheapest flowers you can find at florist shop. More importantly, these flowers are beautiful as well!

Carnation

Our first recommendation on the cheapest flower yet beautiful one is definitely carnation. Carnation is a perfect choice of flower but often being overlooked because it is always being reflected as Mother’s Day flowers or flowers for mom.

Carnation comes in many colours including white, pink, champagne, purple and blue. It is perfect to use as the main flower or even filler flowers for various occasions. Be it you are looking for a wedding flower bouquet, birthday flower bouquet or anniversary flower bouquet, carnation is the affordable choice of flower to go to.

Below is the price range for a carnation bouquet:

If you thought of carnation being too boring, we have a second recommendation for you, that is carnation spray.

Carnation Spray

Carnation spray, or also known as mini carnation, is a sub-species of carnation where one stem of carnation consists of multiple blooms. Normally, a stem of carnation spray will have 3-6 mini carnation blooms. However, the diameter size of each blooms will be smaller than carnation.

Most of the time, carnation spray is used as filler flowers instead of the main flowers. It is best mixed with sunflowers, roses and leaves like eucalyptus and green bell.

If you are looking for flower gifting on someone’s birthday, job promotion, cheer up someone, or a bridal/wedding bouquet, you should not miss out carnation spray.

Ping Pong Flower

Ping pong flower is in the middle price range among other flowers. It is traditionally used as a funeral flower arrangement; but in recent years with creativity of florists, ping pong flowers are creatively designed and used in bouquets for graduation, birthday, congratulatory wishes and more.

You might wonder, what is so special about the round shape of a ping pong flower?

Take a look at the ping pong flower bouquet and you would definitely love it!

Hence, if you are looking for an affordable bouquet as your next flower gifting, this bouquet design could be a perfect choice that works within your budget.

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum, or also known as mums, is our 4th pick. Besides white mums where we commonly find in florists, it comes in a few bright tone colours such as yellow, blue and purple.

Chrysanthemum is one of the popular flowers that is widely used during wake services and also condolence flower delivery to someone who just lost their loved ones. This is because chrysanthemum symbolizes the meaning of peace and tranquillity, that is best fit for a bereavement occasion.

Pom Pom Flowers

You might not have heard about pom pom flowers before. They belong to the chrysanthemum family, but the bloom size is smaller. Pom pom flowers are also referred as chrysanthemums spray.

In Malaysia, pom pom flowers are usually used as prayer flowers especially in Chinese and Indian religious culture. And most of them are locally grown.

However, imported pom pom flowers from China and Vietnam are indeed a beautiful flower to be used as filler flowers for mixed flower bouquet arrangement.

Gerbera

Gerbera, or sometimes referred to as gerbera daisy, is one of our florists’ favourite flowers!

Similarly to ping pong flowers and chrysanthemum, gerbera has been traditionally used in funeral flower arrangement.

But at SweetLife & Co., our florists just want to beat the generalization of gerbera as it is such a beautiful flower yet under-rated by most of the people. 

Gerbera comes in many colours, such as white, pink, purple, yellow, orange and green. The variety of colours has allowed florists to play around in flower arrangement by mixing them with other flowers such as roses, carnations, sunflowers and more.

If you are still in an unbelieving state of how beautiful gerbera can be in a flower arrangement, check out the design below! Moreover, it is under RM100 (USD 23) only!

Chamomile

You must be very surprised. 

Yes, you see it right, it’s chamomile! A bouquet of chamomile would cost around RM100 – RM150 depending on sizes.

Besides that, chamomile is also perfect to use as filler flowers as they are very versatile. The small mini blooms of each chamomile are perfect to mix with roses (any colours), sunflowers and carnations. 

That’s not all, we rate chamomile as the best value flower because of the scent density compared to other flowers.

Baby’s Breath

The flower that symbolizes everlasting love. Baby’s breath is another option of affordable and cheap flowers you should consider on your next flower gifting.

Most of the time, you are seeing white colour baby breath, however, with the recent growing trend of colour baby breath, you can easily get one with minimal charges on the colour you loved at any florist shop.

Check out how beautiful baby breath bouquet can be in different colours:

Hydrangeas

Another cheaper option is hydrangeas. Hydrangea is considered to be a seasonal flower. They bloom during May to July every year. However in Malaysia, hydrangeas are available all season thanks to the growers in Cameron Highlands.

With hydrangeas easily sourced from local growers, you will enjoy a much lower price compared to other flowers that need to be imported from foreign growers.

A beautifully arranged one stem hydrangea bouquet will cost around RM120 – RM150 (USD 28 – USD 35).

Final Note: Explanation of Why Some Flowers Are Cheaper Than Others

People are often skeptical when it comes to buying fresh flowers. One of the common reasons is that fresh flowers are expensive. Although some of the flowers are expensive, there are also many types of flowers which are inexpensive and yet beautiful as long as you choose the right florist.

At SweetLife & Co., we hope this guide will give you a heads up whenever you are shopping for flowers. If you are looking for best flower delivery service in Penang Malaysia, we are definitely the trusted Penang florist you should look for!