Rhode Island, RI Flower Shops

Rhode Island flowers shops have large selections of flowers arrangements and they can design a special flower bouquet just for you. Providence is the name of the largest city in the state of Rhode Island and has many florists available for local deliveries. Fresh flowers can be delivered to different locations in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island Flower Shop News

Blooming business: Florist offers curbside bouquets - wnky.com

Rhode Island wedding florist finds a unique way to keep her business afloat amid coronavirus cancellations. WJAR's Sam Read reports. June 19, 2020 WICKFORD, R.I. (WJAR/NBC News)  — A Rhode Island wedding florist has come up with a unique way to share her creations after coronavirus cancellations took a huge toll on her business.For the last two weeks Toni Chandler, the owner of “Wild Child Flowers and Gardens,” has set up shop on the side walk in Wickford.“These are peonies I wanted to make sure had a home,” Chandler says of her offerings. “Every morning, I come out around 9 a.m. with the flowers. I start with six to eight bouquets and then mid-afternoon, I’ll put more out if I need to put more out.” Typically, Chandler would be picking the peonies and designing bouquets for the several dozen weddings she had booked this summer, but because of COVID-19, a majority of them canceled.“Weddings I have this summer, probably five or six,” she says. “I still h... https://www.wnky.com/blooming-business-florist-offers-curbside-bouquets/

Local florists find ways to adapt, overcome as pandemic stretches busiest season - The Independent

For the past two months, Shea and florists like her have had to transform their way of thinking as, much like every part of the hospitality industry in Southern Rhode Island, the coronavirus pandemic has closed all floral shops to in-person sales.It might not seem like a major barrier to customer service in 2020 but with most of Shea’s clients coming through her doors as unplanned walk-ins — and with big floral events all canceled for the foreseeable future — it’s a disruption that will likely have a wide and long-lasting impact on the floral business, particularly in tourist-heavy South County.“It’s definitely changed the dynamic of our industry,” Shea said this week. “Never have I seen it like this. Ever. But it’s making us be more creative. We have to learn to be more descriptive when we speak to our customers over the phone. We’ve had to learn how to speak colors, speak vibrant colors instead of just saying something like ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got orange and yellow.’ It’s helping us to learn how to communicate better.”She is not alone.Ten miles south from Bert & Peg’s Tower Hill Road location in North Kingstown, Joy Rich works in her office at Flowerthyme in Wakefield fielding the same types of phone calls on a daily basis and doing her best to stay positive as she guides older customers through her freshly-updated website for online ordering and curbside pickup.But finding the silver lining is all in a day’s work for Rich, who says while things are tough now, they were a lot more difficult at the start of the pandemic. She points to the early days of shutdowns as the hardest as many of the region’s top suppliers – like Fall River Florist, Bay State Florist Supply Inc., RJ Carbone Wholesale Floral Distributors, Twigs & branches Floral and East Coast Wholesale Flowers – were low on inventory or incapable of crossing state border’s due to travel restrictions.“For two weeks I had to close because we had to figure things out... https://www.independentri.com/arts_and_living/article_83d8d81a-9007-11ea-9059-d38083c995f3.html

Get Your Floral Fix and Help Sustain the Rhode Island Flower Economy - Providence Media

There’s nothing like a bunch of flowers to infuse a bit of fresh cheer into any space. While social interaction protocols implore us all to hibernate just when spring is starting, Rhode Island flower farms and sellers have plenty of inventive ways to help you bear stay-home demands – and with weddings and events being postponed, these businesses could use a boost as well.“Flower delivery and curbside pick-up seems to be the new normal,” says Jeffrey Kerkhoff of Jephry Floral Studio in Providence. Kerkhoff has been busy turning his Broadway store “inside out” to showcase every product from his shop windows enabling customers to browse from the safety of the sidewalk. “Change necessitates innovation, and we are working to adapt the way we do business to both keep our employees and customers safe, as well as continue to serve our customers and employ our staff through this crisis,” notes Kerhhoff, who has also been adding items to his online shop.In the East Bay, Anna Jane Kocon, owner of Little State Flower Company, has been ramping up for a season essentially put on hold. “We’ve been growing flowers and plants all winter preparing for spring,” she begins. “The flowers we are selling are vision... http://providenceonline.com/stories/ri-flower-farms-covid19,35379?

Inside Jennifer Lawrence's show-stopping wedding location as red roses decorate mansion - Irish Mirror

Jennifer Lawrence's wedding location was a spectacle to behold.The Hollywood actress, 29, planned to tie the knot with Cooke Maloney, 34, at Belcourt of Newport, Rhode Island, an ornate Louis XIII-style mansion. Preparation was underway to ensure the wedding all of Hollywood is talking about was a show-stopping extravaganza. Florists were hard at work hanging spectacular red rose flower arrangements on the mansion's walls. Buckets filled with red roses were at the feet of the florist as she worked on decorating the building. The dream wedding venue has a minimum cost of $100 per head. Inside Jennifer Lawrence's show-stopping wedding location as red roses decorate mansion (Image: SplashNews.com) The Hollywood actress, 29, planned to tie the knot with Cooke Maloney, 34, at Belcourt of Newport, Rhode Island, an ornate Louis XIII-style mansion (Image: Getty) It has emerged the property has quite the spooky story to tell itself. The owner of the property, Carolyn Rafaelian, spoke to the New York Times in 2013 about having the place cleansed of evil spirits. She even had a shaman come in and perform ceremonies in the building to rid it of ghosts. "Th... https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/inside-jennifer-lawrences-show-stopping-20657786

The Florists - Martha's Vineyard Times

Morning Glory elevating what they are doing with flower production. We use a few off-Island growers who put flowers on the Seastreak for us — sustainable-practice farms in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. We’ve found the right farmers who grow such an incredible product — flowers that will last a week to two weeks. We are lucky that we have access to them.Talk about timing and shelf life.Working with such a perishable product is tricky. It’s hard to feel like you can get ahead when you’re constantly ordering fresh flowers every week, as I have to put orders in for the week before. Mentally, it’s very challenging. Like a restaurant, a chef would do the same. We have four giant coolers here that help with shelf life, and so does the way we process them. After the week is over, we move any remaining flowers to another cooler, and figure out other things to do with them. Sometimes I make arrangements for Hospice — we give the older flowers away to people the best we can. Recently, Felix Neck needed flowers for a kids’ program, and we were able to give them some. It’s hard throwing them into the compost, but we can’t sell them either. How much of your business is weddings?We do a ton of weddings, but really only about 25 percent of the business (we did 60 weddings last year). The single purchase of everyday flowers keeps us so busy and really keeps the business going. We have a driver delivering flowers all over the Island all day, every day. The elements make it very tricky, whether it’s a 90-plus day, or pouring rain.Do you feel you are on a 24-hour alert?Definitely. We opened up on Sundays this summer, too. Sometimes I work seven days in a row — it may be 14 days before I get a day off. I feel like I’m so obsessed and so immersed in what I’m doing. Whether I’m here or not here, I’m still always here. There’s never a moment when I’m not thinking about the shop.What’s your biggest challenge?Trying to be a mind reader for what people want. It’s very difficult to get that information out of people, and they can be very particular, but they don’t know how to tell us what they want in flowers. And everyone has a different idea of what’s beautiful. We do a lot of picture sharing. We hired a photographer to help us organize and update our website, and it’s making a huge difference. People are calling us now because they like our aesthetic — that’s working out in our favor. What sets you apart from other florists?I grew up on the Island, Rebecca [Swartwood, floral designer] grew up here, and other staff understand the Vineyard so well. We tap into this vibe that can be very elegant, but also very laid-back. We have a Vineyard vibe that makes flowers not feel fussy or too much, but approachable while being really beautiful. Our flowers can be put on any elegant table or a kitchen counter in your summer cottage. They speak the Vineyard. We don’t manipulate the flowers to do anything they don’t want to do. So our arrangements feel very free and natural and very elegant at the same time. Which is very Vineyard in a nutshell. Marc Cooper, floristMiddletown Gift & Floral Shop680 State Rd., West Tisbury508-696-7600middletownnursery.comWhere do your flowers come from at Middletown?We get cut flowers from Holland, we get local flowers, we get a lot of flowers from Boston. Basically the style of flowers that I like determines where we buy from. I like classical, vintage-looking roses, hydrangeas, mostly big white lilies. I still like to get some tulips in — the parrots and the doubles. Right now we are getting a lot of local items; the sunflowers are big. But many of the flowers that I have you can’t grow here; the quality is not the same. How did you learn the florist trade?For 10 years I had a gift shop in Worcester where we brought in flowers, and I had to learn quickly. My business partner at the time liked doing flowers, then she had a child so could not be in the shop that often. I ended up working with flowers. I learned to do what I wanted to do with them, and c... https://www.mvtimes.com/2019/08/28/the-florists/