Sending Flowers to France from the UK with Turboflora

You can arrange flower delivery to France from the UK with Turboflora: choose a bouquet on the France or destination city page, enter the recipient’s address and card text, and pay online in rubles. We deliver to 67 French cities, including Paris, Amiens and Avignon, with delivery already included in the displayed bouquet price. Check the available payment options at checkout and agree the delivery date and timing for your destination before completing your plans.

The useful starting point is where your recipient will receive the flowers, rather than where you are ordering from. A home address, a workplace and a temporary stay each need slightly different preparation. Once you have the destination, think about the occasion, the recipient’s taste and the words you want them to read; those details will help you choose a bouquet that feels personal even when you are arranging everything from Britain.

Check the French destination before choosing a bouquet

Start with our Flower delivery to France page and check whether your recipient’s city is listed. Our French coverage includes 67 cities, with Argenteuil, Asnières-sur-Seine, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Belfort and Béziers among the destinations. A city appearing on the list is the starting point for your order; use the actual delivery address when agreeing the details.

Prepare the recipient’s name, street address, postcode and any building or access information that could affect the handover. Copy French place names carefully, including accents where they appear in the address. If you are sending to an office, include the company or department; for a hotel, establish that the recipient will still be staying there on the intended date.

You can also browse Flower delivery abroad, which lists our international countries and cities; that page is in Russian. Turboflora delivers abroad to 49 countries and more than 1,550 cities. For this order, keep your selection on the relevant French country or city page so that the destination and the bouquet you are considering stay connected.

Choose flowers for the person and the setting

A favourite colour is often a more useful guide than a long list of flower meanings. Think about what the recipient wears, the colours in their home or a bouquet they have enjoyed before. A restrained palette can suit someone with simple tastes, while a varied mix may appeal to someone who enjoys colour. Use the choices shown on the destination page as your starting point.

Consider where the bouquet will stand and how the recipient will handle it. A large arrangement can be awkward on a crowded desk or during a hotel stay; a more compact choice may fit the setting better. Check the product description and photographs for the stated size and presentation, and ask about anything unclear instead of judging dimensions from a close-up image alone.

For a romantic occasion, red roses have a familiar association with love, but the message should make your intention clear. For a colleague or a new friendship, choose with the relationship in mind rather than relying on symbolism. In France, chrysanthemums are strongly associated with remembrance and cemetery visits, so they need particular care when choosing flowers for a celebration.

Bouquets we can deliver

Bouquet of 1 yellow sunflowers

$13

Bouquet of 1 white lilies

$19

Bouquet of 1 pink lilies

$19

Bouquet of 3 gerberas mix

$21

Agree the date and make the address easy to use

If you are sending flowers for a birthday, anniversary or visit, establish the intended delivery date before making other arrangements around it. Ask about timing for the particular French destination. The express delivery and time-window conditions published for our Russian cities do not establish a delivery schedule for France, so avoid treating them as options for this order.

Keep the recipient’s local date and time in mind when discussing the handover from the UK. Rather than writing only “tomorrow morning”, give the calendar date and explain that you mean the time in France. This is especially useful when you are ordering late in the day or coordinating flowers with a meal, a journey or another person’s arrival.

Contact a manager on WhatsApp to agree the address, timing and card text, get help choosing a bouquet or request a photo before delivery. Explain any access difficulty early, such as a building entrance that is hard to identify. If the recipient’s plans are uncertain, settle those details before relying on a particular handover time.

Write the card and understand checkout

A useful card message has three parts: the occasion, one personal thought and your name if you want the recipient to recognise the sender. For example, “Happy birthday, Anna. I wish I could be there for tea and cake today. With love, James.” A short, specific sentence usually carries more feeling than several lines of formal wishes copied from a greeting card.

We include a card with your text free of charge, and delivery is anonymous by default: the courier does not name the sender. Sign the card if you want your identity to be clear. You can write in the language you normally use together; check names, accents and punctuation carefully, particularly if you have translated a message into French.

To place an international order, choose the bouquet on the country or city page, enter the delivery address and card text, then pay online in rubles. The displayed price is already converted to rubles and includes delivery. Checkout uses CloudPayments; check the payment options displayed there, because acceptance of every foreign-issued card is not guaranteed. Allow for any currency conversion your card issuer applies.

Help the recipient enjoy the bouquet after arrival

If you are sending cut flowers, a little preparation helps once they arrive. The recipient should use a clean vase, add fresh water and remove any leaves that would sit below the waterline. Recutting the stem ends with a clean, sharp tool before placing them in water helps the stems take up water; avoid crushing them with blunt scissors.

Choose a position away from radiators, strong direct sunlight and ripening fruit. Check the water level each day, since a full bouquet can use more water than expected, and refresh it when it becomes cloudy. Remove fading flowers and loose foliage as needed. These are useful general habits, but different flowers have different needs and no single vase-life promise fits every bouquet.

Match the care to the presentation. Flowers arranged in floral foam need the foam kept moist, while a conventional hand-tied bouquet needs a suitable vase. Follow any instructions supplied with the arrangement, and use flower food according to its packet if provided. If the presentation is unclear in the listing, ask before ordering so you can give the recipient helpful advice.

Sending to Russia as well: which details change?

If you are also arranging flowers for family or friends in Russia, start with the Bouquets catalogue and use the Russian destination for that order. We deliver across Russia. City delivery costs 500 RUB; for remote districts and suburbs, the operator confirms the delivery price when confirming the order. That fee is separate from the international arrangement, where delivery is included in the displayed price.

In large Russian cities, express delivery is available in one to two hours after order confirmation. Other options are an exact time with a tolerance of 30 minutes either way, or the windows 09–12, 12–15, 15–18 and 18–21. You can also pre-order one to 30 days ahead. These conditions apply to Russian cities; agree French delivery timing for the specific destination.

For Russian deliveries, the courier calls the recipient about 15 minutes before arrival. If they are absent, we agree a second delivery that day or, with the sender’s consent, hand the flowers to a neighbour or concierge. When arranging gifts in both countries, keep each recipient’s address, local date and card text together so that instructions intended for one order do not end up on the other. We deliver bouquets across Russia in 1–2 hours.