Flower Girl — Local services in New York

We loved the Spring Walk to Workshop!! My daughter and I attended the Spring Walk to Workshop as a special travel experience during our vacation in NYC. We had a wonderful time making lasting memories. It was an amazing opportunity to experience the New York flower market in Chelsea with the fabulously-talented owner of Flower Girl, Denise Porcaro Tupper, and her delightful staff. We met in the flower district on a beautiful Spring morning. We saw such a gorgeous array of beautiful plants and flowers. It was a great time for experiencing Spring flowers; lilacs, tulips, peonies,hydrangeas, roses, wisteria were in abundance. We saw gorgeous tropical foliage, orchids, succulents and great big branches for creating spectacular and ethereal floral designs. We visited a huge showroom of dried flowers in every color imaginable. Denise helped us pick out 8-10 types of flowers and greenery to make a fabulous combination of colors and texture. I’ve never seen such such gorgeous and fresh flowers. We chose Ranunculous,Sweet Pea, Anenome, Lilac, Lisianthus, spray roses, Astranthia, Waxflower and Seeded Eucalyptus. Denise was incredibly generous with her time and insights about her career and business which was so wonderful for my daughter who is just getting started in the industry. Denise is such a wonderful role model of creativity and success. We strolled a few blocks to the Flower Girl shop where we had a lovely array of fruit and pastries and coffee. Denise gave us a primer on prepping our flowers and shared her design philosophy in creating an arrangement. She also gave us practical info about caring for our arrangements for a longer vase life. We received an adorable Flower Girl tote bag with goodies including a fab smelling signature Flower Girl candle,a note pad, and a pair of vintage style scissors. A professional photographer took pictures of us with our arrangements so we have a lasting record of them. We left the shop and delivered our arrangements to a friend of my daughter who lives in the city since we were getting on a plane the next day. She was surprised and delighted! I highly recommend taking a Flower Girl workshop. It is a fabulous experience you will...

I ordered a simple bouquet of peonies for my civil wedding. They’re not in season but I sent a reference picture (the first beautiful attached image) and was told I could have it. I paid a fortune for 8 stems.

I wasn’t told they would send me a completely different variety of peonies that didn’t have that beautiful multi layered fluffy aspect. They were also FULLY opened and falling apart. There wasn’t one good angle for a photo. It was delivered 3h before the ceremony on a Sunday. I called, left a voice message and emailed - nobody responded. I guess it’s COVID times so BEWARE, there’s no service whatsoever on Sundays!

I ordered some last minute ranunculus from a different florist. On the following day I got the most lame response saying peonies had different phases and they are all beautiful. ‘As you know, we are dealing with nature’, ‘we hope that you were able to enjoy them through all of their stages of blooming as they are fresh’ and so on.

Next day the flowers were melting, 2 days later COMPLETELY DEAD. And I was given another lame excuse. Nothing was offered, not even a nice honest phone call. I asked other professionals if the condition of the flowers was acceptable and they told me ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT’.

I am not someone who leaves bad reviews but I really felt disregarded and wouldn’t wish such disappointment to anyone, specially on their important day. Terrible, terrible costumer service.

‘We take pride in what we create at Flower Girl, and there is nothing that could be done better or differently here with regards to your variety, timing or cost. We hope this further clarified your points and that we have the opportunity to work with you again in the...

I went on a solo Flower Girl tour with Denise and Maurice. It was overwhelmingly fantastic. I say overwhelming because there is a lot of activity if you aren’t used to it, and there is just so much to see in an hour long tour of the Flower District. The tour packed a good punch though and it was well worth it. Denise went over her favorite flower markets and shared good history and stories along the way. She has a good lay of the land having 20 years experience in the NYC flower industry. We finished off with coffee and snacks at the ACE hotel where I was able to ask all my questions from the tour itself and we finished off with lovely convo. It was a very informative and fun tour! I went back afterwards to buy myself flowers and did some more browsing before forcing myself alway from all the fresh scents and...