Providence · Tuesday to Saturday
Every Tuesday and Friday the shop buys what the market has at its best, strips and cuts each stem and lets it drink, and the florist you first speak to stays with your order until it leaves Wren Street.
On show, 5 plates
From a care kit for the vase at home to a full day of event flowers, each has a stated price. The services page sets out exactly what each includes and what it leaves out.
Up to forty-five minutes with the florist who would make the work.
no charge
A spiral-bound bouquet built at the bench in about forty-five minutes from what the market brought in that week, then wrapped in water so it travels.
from $48
An arrangement built into its own vase over about ninety minutes, conditioned and finished so it can be delivered standing and needs nothing doing to it on arrival.
from $95
One working day, from the market run at dawn to the last piece placed on site.
from $1,100
Sixty minutes at the venue with the events coordinator, measuring the spaces that will hold flowers and noting ceiling height, light, access times and where water can be reached.
$50
Flower food for six changes of water, a bottle brush for the vase, a pair of stem snips and the shop's written care sheet.
$22
The shop goes to market on Tuesday and Friday, so the bench holds what the season is giving that week rather than what a catalogue promises. Each stem has its lower leaves stripped, a fresh cut and a long drink in clean water before it goes into an arrangement, and a picture you bring in guides the look rather than setting a stem-by-stem list. Nothing is bought for your order until its colours, size, container and date are agreed in writing.
Yellow roses, a pair of peonies and a dense summer mix: three of the arrangements hanging in the gallery, each named by its flowers.
Nora and Elias make the flowers, Priya plans the events and Tomás sees each order out of the door. Name the person you would like on the contact form and the shop will say whether they are free.
Lead florist
Runs the design consultations and cuts every event order herself. She buys at the Tuesday and Friday markets, so a bouquet is built from what actually arrived that week rather than from a photograph, and she says plainly when a requested flower is out of season and what should stand in for it.
Senior florist
Builds the vase and pedestal work, including the standing arrangements that go to restaurant tables and shop counters. He conditions every stem before it is used, which is the unglamorous reason an arrangement from this bench stands for a week rather than three days.
Events coordinator
Takes wedding, memorial and event enquiries from the first message through to the venue walk-through. She records access times, ceiling heights, light and where water can be reached, and writes the note the quote is built from, so nothing is priced on a guess.
Shop and care coordinator
Looks after deliveries, the cold store and the care sheet that goes out with every order. He answers questions about keeping flowers alive at home and points allergy or pet-safety questions at the shop's published plant list rather than guessing at an answer.
I arrived with a shade of apricot in mind and no idea what it would cost. Nora set what the market had that week against my budget, and I walked out with three written options instead of a sales pitch.
Kwame C.
Priya stood in our reception room before a single figure was quoted, which no other florist we asked had offered. The ceremony flowers were in place an hour before the guests came, and the table pieces sat low enough to talk across.
Lorna R.
I wanted peonies in a hand-tied bouquet on a Saturday morning and was told straight away that none had come in that week. The bouquet tied for me instead used what had arrived, and it lasted nine days in water.
Emmett H.
Read the six descriptions first. A hand-tied bouquet is made to be carried out of the shop the same day, while a vase arrangement is built to stand wherever it is delivered. If two still seem to fit, send a note through the contact form and the shop will point you to one before anything is bought.
For the scope described, yes. Where a price starts from a figure, that figure is the smallest version; a larger size, a different container or a particular flower can raise it, and you see the written quote before a stem is cut.
Not on its own. The Book button and the contact form both pass your request to the shop, but neither confirms an order, a price or a delivery date until someone at Wren Street has replied.
A colour direction, a budget, the vase or the venue, and the date. Pictures help to show the look you are after; they are taken as a direction rather than copied stem for stem, because the market decides what is really available that week.
The design consultation is free, and it closes with a written note of the colours, size, container and date that were talked through.
A short email when the bench moves from one season's flowers to the next, a few times a year. Every message carries a link that takes the address off the list.