Rolfes The Florists

Rolfe’s has been a florist since 1967, and now employs a team of four qualified florists — so when it comes to experience they definitely have it. They’ve also kept up with the times, though, and their shop front is modern and cheery, always with a colourful display of their flowers outside, and home to an in-​house balloon artist.
They provide flowers to suit all occasions, including wedding and civil partnership flowers, bouquets, corporate flowers, unique tributes, sympathy flowers, balloons and flower arrangements. If you’d rather talk to them in your own home, they will arrange a home consultation for you, and they can deliver 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday, 8am to 5pm) — while their relay service means they can also deliver nationally and internationally.

Rolfes The Florists is a flower shop that also stocks a good selection of plants and locally sourced vegetables, which is a couple of doors down from Indigo Florists on Splott Road. Both of these outlets offer a quality service, and although they compete in many respects, both shops also offer something a bit different to the other.
Where the flowers are concerned there’s little to distinguish the two however. Both carry good quality blooms and cater for weddings, funerals and corporate clients as well as oother special events. Indigo carries a range of iconic gift items like the Betty Boop range, and Rolfes do something similar in that they sell a selection of cuddly toys that can be sold with or without a flower arrangement.
Rolfes also stocks a good range of fresh fruit and veg, which is always in great condition, and so is my preferred fruit and veg outlet in this area.
The history of the building that Rolfes occupies is fascinating. It use to be an old corn merchants, and still has the barn at the back where the horse and cart used to be housed. When you look down the length of Splott Road, it’s hard to imagine that there would be a barn secreted away in the middle of it. II’s a typical retail High Street with all of the usual modern shop fronts, that reveals very little of the history of the place.
These days the barn is used to store blooms and plants, offering an ideal environment to keep the flowers at their best. This windowless space is cool and dry, which helps to preserve the lifespan of the stock.