Grown up the river, not flown in.
A small flower shop downtown, stocked from our own river lot at Keswick Ridge. Carry out a bunch, send one across the city, or plan your wedding flowers with us.
Order by 2 p.m. and your flowers go out the same day, Tuesday to Saturday.
Call the shopThe river lot
Most of what we sell was in the ground yesterday.
Our field is a long, narrow lot running down to the Saint John River, laid out the way the old farms along the valley were. Dahlias, cosmos, zinnias, snapdragons, sunflowers and about forty other things grow on it.
Stems are cut before the heat of the day, rest overnight in cool water in the shop cooler, and go into bouquets the next morning. That night in the cooler is why our flowers last on your table.
From November to April the field is asleep, so we buy from greenhouse growers in Nova Scotia and Ontario, and the tag on every bunch says where it came from.
On the bench this week
Dahlia season, until the first frost
Flowers and prices
What a bouquet costs here
Every bouquet is built from what came in that morning. Tell us a colour and an occasion and leave the stems to us.
Market bunch
One variety straight from the bucket, wrapped in paper. Walk-in only, while they last.
Designer's choice
Wrapped and tied, built around whatever is best in the cooler that day.
From $55
Order flowersVase arrangement
Arranged in a stoneware jug or a glass vase that is yours to keep.
From $85
Order flowersFriday flowers
A bouquet every Friday for a home or an office. Skip or pause any week by text.
$45 a week
Order flowersSympathy flowers
For the service and for the family's kitchen table, delivered quietly, with no upsell.
From $95
Order flowersWeddings and events
Bouquets, boutonnieres, arches and tables. How it works is further down.
From $2,200
Order flowersI ordered at one o'clock for my mother's birthday in Oromocto and she had them by four. A week later she sent me a photo, and they still looked like the day they came.
Colette
Fredericton
Weddings
Wedding flowers, one weekend at a time
June to October, with something from our own field in almost every arrangement.
Consult
Half an hour at the shop
Free, with buckets of whatever is growing, so you choose colours you have seen and smelled rather than ones on a screen.
Quote
A stem-by-stem proposal
In writing within a week. A $500 deposit holds your date, and the rest is due a fortnight before.
Trial
A trial bouquet
About six weeks out we make your bouquet in the flowers of that season. It is yours to keep.
The day
Set up and taken down
Bouquets arrive by nine in the morning, we set the arch and the tables, and we come back that night to clear it all.
Questions
Before you order
Anywhere in Fredericton for $12. Oromocto, New Maryland, Hanwell and Keswick Ridge for $18.
We call before we substitute. The colour and the feel are a promise; a particular stem in a particular week is not, because the field decides.
About a week with fresh water every other day. If a bouquet droops within three days, send us a photo and we will replace it.
No. Arrangements are built on chicken wire, moss and pin frogs, which go back in the drawer instead of the landfill.
Yes. Order ahead and your flowers wait in the cooler until closing time.
Order
Send flowers, or collect them
Tell us who they are for and when. We call to confirm the colours and take payment by phone. For the same day, calling is quickest.
Hours
- Tuesday–Friday
- 9:30am–5:30pm
- Saturday
- 9am–3pm
Closed Sunday and Monday. Wedding consultations by appointment.