Flower Power: There have never been so many choices for ordering flowers for Mom - or so many ways to disappoint her. We put five fresh-cut flower services to the test

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Last Mother's Day, Judith Williams was expecting to get a pleasant thank you when she sent her mom a USD64 bouquet for the big day. Instead, she I got something else: laughter. Williams, a homemaker in Waxahachie, Tex., had carefully picked out the deluxe "Spring Garden" bouquet for her mom in Halifax from Flowershope. com-and had chosen a vase that would match her mother's china pattern. But instead of the dense arrangement of lilies, asters and other blooms, Williams says her mother got a thin handful of red carnations and "yellow, fuzzy-looking things" with leaves and petals that dropped from the tattered greenery. The vase? It was plain clear glass. When she called home, "I could hear my dad laughing in the background," says Williams, adding that her mother was a little kinder. "It was the first time I ordered flowers over the Internet, and my last," she says.