You need 48 roses. They sell them 25 to a bunch.
Put one bouquet's stems in and this works out the bunches you actually have to buy, what is left standing in the bucket, what one bouquet really cost, and what the market table leaves you. Everything stays in your browser.
One bouquet
What it opens with, what carries it, what fills it, what greens it. The bunch box is your supplier's number — leave it blank and the published convention for that flower is used, and the answer says which.
What to buy
What one bouquet costs you
If you grow your own
A bed of your own instead of a wholesale invoice. What it cost you, spread over the stems it actually gave you — one tap puts that number on the lines above that have no cost yet.
Your recipe and your buy list export any time — that button is a promise, not a feature. What you build here leaves with you.
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Bunch sizes: James Cress Wholesale Florists, "Bunch Sizes for Flowers and Greenery", and Dreisbach Wholesale Florists, "Flower & Greenery Bunch Size Guide" — both read September 4, 2026. Roses and carnations 25 to a bunch, tulips and alstroemeria 10, most other flowers 10, a eucalyptus grower's bunch 5–8. Both wholesalers say stem counts vary by farm and variety, so every line's bunch size is yours to set and your supplier's number wins. Shrink ships with no default on purpose — the published cut-flower loss figures describe handling failures, not a planning allowance. Fee rates as of July 29, 2026: Square in-person 2.6% + 15¢; Etsy $0.20 listing + 6.5% transaction + 3% + $0.25 US payment processing. A table or booth fee is its own cost — this page prices the bouquet, and the fair profit calculator prices the day.
The numbers here are yours to check. This page does arithmetic on what you type — it cannot see your recipe, your equipment or your batch.
This is one calculator, not four.
The recipe feeds the buy list, the buy list feeds the bunches and the leftovers, the stems a bouquet consumes feed its true cost, and the cost feeds what you keep at the table, on Etsy, or cash in hand. Grow your own and the bed feeds it too — what a stem of yours really cost, one tap onto the lines that have none. Change one line — two roses instead of three — and everything below rolls.
In your shop it is the same calculator with your rows behind it. Your cooler answers before you cut: “you can make 18 of the Market Mix with what is in the cooler — 6 more would need 12 more stems of snapdragon,” with the numbers. The plan lands in Make with How many already filled in and the stem helper open on your recipe. A web calculator cannot do that, because it has never seen your cooler. $19/mo for the whole back office, kept for as long as you stay. The shop stays free for cost a piece and one fair — no product cap. The tax packet, Etsy and Square, and more fairs are the $19.
Free tool — no signup
The math behind a market bouquet, spelled out — and honest about which numbers are conventions you should overrule with your own beds and your own supplier.
How many bunches do I buy for 24 bouquets?
That is the arithmetic this page exists for, because wholesale sells bunches and your recipe wants stems. Say a bouquet takes 2 roses: 24 bouquets need 48 stems, roses come 25 to a bunch, so you buy 2 bunches, get 50, and 2 stems stand in the bucket. Do that across four varieties and the leftovers add up to real money. The page counts the bunches per line, shows what is left over, and tells you roughly how many more of the same bouquet those leftovers make.
How many stems are in a bunch?
It depends on the flower, and two wholesalers publish the same conventions: roses and carnations 25 to a bunch, tulips and alstroemeria 10, most other flowers 10, and a eucalyptus grower's bunch 5 to 8. Those are the starting points here. Dreisbach says outright that stem counts vary by farm and variety, which is why every line has its own bunch-size box — put your supplier's number in and it wins for good.
What shrink should I plan for?
Yours, and we deliberately do not ship a default. The figures published for cut flowers — the ones you will find quoted around 20 to 30 percent — describe losses from poor handling and cold-chain failures, not a planning allowance for a grower who knows what she is doing. Guessing on your behalf would quietly make you buy the wrong amount. Put in what your own buckets actually throw away and every line buys enough that the usable stems still cover the recipe.
What does one bouquet really cost me?
The stems it consumes at your real per-stem cost, plus the sleeve and the band. Leftover stems are reported, never charged to the bouquets — they go back in the cooler and into next week's work, so loading them onto today's price would overstate every bouquet. Your own hours are kept on their own line: they price the work, they never become a tax number.
I grow my own — what does a stem of mine cost?
Start at the bed. Plants per bed is square footage times 144 divided by your spacing squared, so a 25-by-3-foot bed at 9-inch spacing holds 133 plants, and at 10 stems a plant that is 1,330 stems. A bed that cost $180 in seed, compost, drip and amendments puts about 13.5 cents in every stem. One tap puts that number on the lines with no cost yet, so the flowers you grew and the flowers you buy sit on the same table honestly.