🌸 Flower Shops - Floristerías
Beginner Spanish · At the flower shop
Ordering Flowers in Spanish
A flower-shop visit becomes easier when you can choose a bouquet, explain the occasion, request particular flowers or colors, and arrange a simple delivery.
Your next small win: order a bouquet, say what occasion it is for, choose flowers and colors, ask about delivery, and include a card.
Start with common flowers
Core Flower Shop Vocabulary
These words help you talk about bouquets, arrangements, and several common flower types.
Flower shop
Flower
Bouquet
Flower arrangement
Rose
Tulip
Name four flower-shop words
Say “flower shop, bouquet, rose, and tulip” in Spanish.
Floristería, ramo, rosa y tulipán.
More flower vocabulary
Sunflower
Lily
Daisy
Orchid
Plant
Lesson boundary: plants appear here only as a flower-shop option. Plant parts, care, and garden vocabulary belong in the separate plants lesson.
Build the bouquet you want
Ordering Flowers with Quisiera
Use quisiera to make a polite flower-shop request. Then add the type of bouquet, flowers, or colors you want.
I'd like a bouquet of roses, please.
I'd like a bouquet of red roses.
I'd like a bouquet with roses and tulips.
I prefer light-colored flowers.
Do you have red roses?
Can you prepare a flower arrangement?
Color agreement: rosas rojas is feminine plural, so rojas matches rosas.
Build a bouquet
Order a bouquet with roses and tulips, then say that you prefer light-colored flowers.
Quisiera un ramo con rosas y tulipanes, por favor.
Prefiero flores de colores claros.
Explain what the flowers are for
Using Para for the Occasion
Use para to explain the occasion or person connected to the flowers.
Birthday
Wedding
Anniversary
I'd like a flower arrangement for a birthday.
I'm looking for a bouquet for an anniversary.
I need a bouquet for a wedding.
Simple pattern: un ramo para un aniversario, flores para un cumpleaños, un arreglo para una boda.
Choosing an anniversary bouquet
Good morning. I'm looking for a bouquet for an anniversary.
Of course. Do you prefer roses, tulips, or a mix of flowers?
I'd like a mix of roses and tulips.
Choose two occasions
Say that you need a bouquet for a wedding and a flower arrangement for a birthday.
Necesito un ramo para una boda.
Quisiera un arreglo floral para un cumpleaños.
Send the flowers
Delivery and Cards
Flower shops often offer delivery and cards. These phrases help you ask about both without needing complicated grammar.
Delivery
Card
Do you make home deliveries?
Can you deliver the flowers tomorrow?
Can I include a card with the bouquet?
I'd also like to include a card.
Arranging delivery
Do you make home deliveries?
Yes. We can deliver the bouquet tomorrow afternoon.
Perfect. I'd also like to include a card.
Arrange the delivery
Ask whether the shop delivers, ask for delivery tomorrow, and ask to include a card.
¿Hacen entregas a domicilio?
¿Pueden entregar las flores mañana?
¿Puedo incluir una tarjeta con el ramo?
Your turn · 8 quick questions
Practice: At the Flower Shop
Choose the answer that best fits each situation. Focus on bouquets, flower types, occasions, colors, delivery, and cards.
Practice complete
You can handle a basic flower-shop visit in Spanish.
A few flower-shop phrases to revisit
One last step: order flowers without choices.
Order a bouquet, explain the occasion, choose the flowers or color, and arrange delivery with a card.
Quisiera un ramo con rosas y tulipanes, por favor.
Es para un aniversario.
¿Pueden entregar las flores mañana?
También quisiera incluir una tarjeta.
Which word means “bouquet”?
- ramo
- flor
- tallo
- tarjeta
Ramo means “bouquet.”
ramo = bouquet
You would like a bouquet of roses. What do you say?
- Quisiera un ramo de rosas, por favor.
- Quisiera un arreglo para una boda.
- Prefiero una planta pequeña.
- Necesito una tarjeta, por favor.
Quisiera un ramo de rosas, por favor is a polite request for a bouquet of roses.
Quisiera un ramo de rosas, por favor.
You want red roses. Which phrase fits?
- rosas rojas
- rosas rojos
- rosa rojas
- rosas rojo
Rosas is feminine plural, so the adjective is rojas.
rosas rojas
You are looking for a bouquet for an anniversary. Which sentence fits?
- Estoy buscando un ramo para un aniversario.
- Estoy buscando un ramo de un aniversario.
- Estoy buscando una tarjeta para flores.
- Estoy buscando un aniversario de rosas.
Use para to explain the occasion the bouquet is for.
Estoy buscando un ramo para un aniversario.
You want a flower arrangement for a birthday. What do you say?
- Quisiera un arreglo floral para un cumpleaños.
- Quisiera un ramo para una boda.
- Quisiera unas rosas para un aniversario.
- Quisiera una tarjeta con el ramo.
Arreglo floral means “flower arrangement,” and para un cumpleaños gives the occasion.
Quisiera un arreglo floral para un cumpleaños.
You want to know whether the flower shop delivers to homes. What do you ask?
- ¿Hacen entregas a domicilio?
- ¿Puede preparar un arreglo floral?
- ¿Tienen rosas rojas?
- ¿Puedo incluir una tarjeta?
Hacer entregas a domicilio means to make home deliveries.
¿Hacen entregas a domicilio?
You want the flowers delivered tomorrow. What do you ask?
- ¿Pueden entregar las flores mañana?
- ¿Pueden preparar las flores mañana?
- ¿Pueden incluir una tarjeta mañana?
- ¿Pueden elegir las flores mañana?
Entregar means “to deliver,” and mañana means “tomorrow.”
¿Pueden entregar las flores mañana?
You want to include a card with the bouquet. What do you ask?
- ¿Puedo incluir una tarjeta con el ramo?
- ¿Puedo incluir una planta con el ramo?
- ¿Puedo preparar una tarjeta con las flores?
- ¿Puedo entregar una tarjeta mañana?
¿Puedo incluir una tarjeta con el ramo? asks whether you can include a card with the bouquet.
¿Puedo incluir una tarjeta con el ramo?