1-800-Flowers has a wide range of flowers, plants, gift baskets, special occasion arrangements,  and a friendly customer service to assist you for all your floral and gift idea needs. 1-800-Flowers is one of the first retailers to make use and benefit from a 24 x 7 toll-free telephone number and the Internet for direct sales to consumers. The company carries out its orders in two ways: this is through a network of florists and through drop shipments. It organized a florist-to-florist system of connections called BloomNet, and this established network is one of several floral wire services in the country today. The company has hooked up with or procured a number of other gift and retailing companies which are in major markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Arlington. And in September 2007 they put together a line of exciting floral products inspired by Martha Stewart. After a few years, they acquired Flowerama, a Waterloo-based floral retailer with 100 locations in 28 states. With 1-800-Flowers, bringing happiness and special surprises is not just a nice thought – it has been a business practice for more than 30 years. Say it with flowers, especially handpicked from the best growers around the world -- the cream of the crop. Literally!