Roz & Teddy
There are two of us, and that explains nearly every rule on this site.
The eight-mile radius, the eighteen weddings, the one o'clock cutoff, the two days a week you can walk in. None of that is positioning. It is arithmetic.
We could take more work and be worse at it. We decided in about 2019 that we would rather not, and the numbers on this website are the shape of that decision.
- Opened
- 2016
- Staff
- 2
- Local growers
- 3 · Apr–Oct
- Foam used
- none
Roz Plumb · Founder
Eleven years dressing sets, then this.
Roz spent eleven years as a set dresser for regional theater before she ever sold a bouquet. That work is about making a room look like someone lives in it, from forty feet away, in about two hours, with whatever is in the props store.
She says flowers are the same problem in miniature, which is why nothing that leaves here is symmetrical and why she will move one stem for ten minutes at the end. She opened the studio in 2016 because she wanted to build something that only had to be right once, for one person, rather than eight times a week for a season.
She does the Tuesday market run, answers the phone most days, and is the one with the position on baby's breath.
Teddy Nakashima · Designer
Joined in 2021. Runs the weddings. Ended the foam.
Teddy came in 2021 and now handles most of the wedding work, which means if you book a wedding here, he is the person you meet and the person on site at seven in the morning.
He built the relationships with the three growers we buy from between April and October, and he is the reason we stopped using floral foam in 2022. He made the argument, we lost it, and the quotes went up. He was right.
He is also better than Roz at telling a couple that their budget will not reach what they are describing, which is a genuine skill.
The room itself
The front half still sells paint.
The building is a hardware store on Bell Street. In 2016 the owner partitioned off the back third, which had been stock, and Roz took it.
We did not renovate. The floor is the original tile, the walls are still pegboard, and there is a run of small wooden drawers along one side that used to hold screws by gauge and now hold ribbon and wire by color. People assume the look is a decision. It is mostly that we never got around to changing anything and then realized we liked it.
You can walk in on a Friday or Saturday between ten and four. The rest of the week the door is shut because we are filling orders, and knocking will not help, though people do try.
Where the flowers come from
Three growers from April to October. Wholesale the rest of the year.
Plenty of studios describe themselves as local and leave it there. Here is the actual arrangement.
Three growers
Everything we can get from them, we do. Dahlias, cosmos, sweet peas, ranunculus, the tulips in March that are worth having. It costs slightly more than wholesale and the flowers last longer.
Wholesale, and we say so
Nothing is growing here in January. We buy from the market like everyone else and we would rather tell you that than put the word local on a website all year round.