Providence, Rhode Island
A neighbourhood flower shop on Ashfield Row, building bouquets from whatever the growers cut that week, with the price agreed at the counter before a single stem is cut.
Most first visits start with one of these three. Tributes, buttonholes and wedding consultations are on the services page, each with its price.
Seasonal stems spiralled in the hand, tied off and wrapped to carry home.
from $55
Built into a vessel you keep, held with a grid of tape rather than foam.
from $75
Whatever is best in the buckets that morning, wrapped at a fixed price.
$28
The buckets are checked first, the colours and the price are agreed out loud, and every order leaves with a care card. If a flower you asked for is poor value that week, the shop says so and suggests what is better instead of quietly charging more.
Peonies, garden roses and loose wildflower stems in the relaxed style the shop likes best. None of them is presented as an order completed by Fern & Marigold Flowers.
Rosalind and Marcus build most of what leaves the counter at 123 this street, TR 12345. Priya and Tomas are on the staff page, and you can ask for any of them by name.
Founder and lead florist
Leads the wedding and sympathy work and takes the consultations where a brief still has to be found. Sets the buying list every market morning, and says plainly when a requested flower will not be worth its price that week.
Senior floral designer
Builds the vase arrangements and the larger tributes, and keeps shape and palette consistent across a run of them. Every piece is worked from what the buckets actually hold that morning rather than from a catalogue picture.
Rosalind tied my bouquet at the counter while I waited, swapped one stem I was unsure about and showed me how to recut the stems at home.
Hannah M.
A Saturday market bunch of tulips, wrapped in brown paper and charged at exactly the posted price. They opened slowly and lasted well over a week.
Dev P.
We asked for wedding flowers with no lilies, because of the cats at home. Priya went through every stem with us at the consultation, before anything was ordered.
Corinne A.
A hand-tied bouquet travels well as a gift, a vase arrangement is ready to set straight down, and a market bunch is for your own kitchen table. Tell the shop the occasion and it will suggest one.
A fixed price, such as the market bunch, is what you pay. A price marked from is the starting point, and the shop confirms the full figure with you before anything is made.
The date the flowers are for, any colours or flowers to avoid, whether there are pets at home, and a rough budget. That is enough for the shop to suggest a service.
Yes. Name Rosalind, Marcus, Priya or Tomas in the contact form or when you call, and the shop will confirm whether they are free on the day you need.
Send a question through the contact form or call the shop during opening hours. A date is only held once the shop has replied to confirm it.
An email address only, used to send occasional notes about the shop. No offers chased by a countdown and no third party.