Nowadays you do see more and more florists/planners working from home.
It is unfortunatley the way things are heading nowadays. The competition with supermarkets is getting harder all the time, and the impulse sales are getting lesser all the time. It simply makes running a shop harder.
There will always be a niche for florist shows offering flowers as an impulse buy, but the market will be smaller. By working from home (or a cheap unit) a florist can work with little of no overheads. They don't need staff to man shops when there is little or no trade, they can take holidays when they want, they do not need to carry (much) stock so they have little or no wastage etc etc
It has a lot of points going for it. It also fits into a lot of womens lifestyles. They have, or want children, and this is the ideal solution to working and earning money, but having time for a family as well.
I don't really like the way things are going, because as an exporter to wholesalers and large retailers I see the market for us diminishing due to the lack of flowers being bought for stock/impulse sales.
but unfortunatly the power of the supermarkets have led to this change.