Donate your Flowers

At Unexpected Blooms, our flowers are generously donated from weddings, memorial services, charity, corporate and private events, wholesale and retail florists. We appreciate your floral donation and are grateful that you want to join us in sharing the joy of flowers with our community!  Our volunteer calendar fills up quickly, so please give us as much advance notice as possible for planning purposes.  Once your donation is approved, we will e-mail you and provide details for donation payment options.

Note: In order to repurpose your flowers, we need to determine the amount of flowers and greenery being donated that can be recut. We are unable to repurpose flowers from outdoor events, stems shorter than 6," most flowers from arches, greenery alone, unprocessed wild flowers or artificial flowers. We find the more detailed flower information provided is the best gauge for calculating our volunteer needs and allows us to produce the most arrangements to bring joy to others. Please help us gather this detail in the form (see link above).

How It Works

Please fill out the form to initiate the donation process and allow us time to determine if we can accept your donation of flowers. Once accepted, and if you choose to donate financially over $250, we will send you a tax receipt within 10 days. Email us at info@unexpectedblooms.org with questions. We appreciate the vases and containers from your event, but this is not required.

*Please note that for donations, we may be able to arrange to have one of our volunteers pick up the flowers at the venue itself, but this is not always possible. To help us with this process, please coordinate your donation as soon as possible.