Redwood City Florist

My husband will buy flowers for me several times a year. Valentine’s & Anniversary dates go without saying, the rest of the year it’s the «just because» flowers. I do love receiving flowers and I buy flowers often just to have on the dining room table (I take after my mom with that).anyway, my husband went to RWC Florist on Feb 13^th and brought home a beautiful arrangement for Valentine’s Day– beautiful lavender roses and other flowers (I’m terrible with names of flowers)…all in all a gorgeous, enormous arrangement. Two days later all of the roses were drooping over, totally gone/dead…the rest of the flowers lived a much longer life – but I’m a rose person first and foremost (like mom) and it really bothered me every time that I saw the roses. I thought about notifying them, but kept getting busy and forgetting– then I reconciled our bills and saw what hubby paid for this arrangement ($ 195) and that sent me into another tailspin. because for that amount of money you expect a much longer life span. I did write a letter to the florist and the very next business day a new arrangement arrived on my doorstep with lavender roses and a very nice apology advising that what happened with my flowers was not normal and signed by Sheri Brown (owner). I was very happy to see a business take care of their customers like that and these roses did last a full week, so I was pleased with the new arrangement.
I know my husband has gone here before and I had purchased flowers here for my mother’s gravesite (they are conveniently located next door to a funeral home)…and those flowers were done well. I also recall family members ordering floral arrangements for my mom’s celebration of life and those were all very lovely and they were especially considerate in arranging a convenient delivery time as to not inconvenience anyone who needed to be at the church for the delivery.
All in all, I think I received a botched bouquet for Valentine’s– it can just happen and could happen to any florist. The fact that they cared enough to make it right gives them the good rating. I am still not a fan of inflated pricing for holidays, I understand that it happens and that it is expected – but I’d rather have my hubby buy me roses more often for less $$$ vs. splurging on Valentine’s Day… because heck everyday when you’re married to your best friend and man of your dreams is Valentine’s Day!

Beautiful wrist corsages and buttonieres here. For many events I have bought exquisite corsages here. Excellent customer service — I was kindly informed and shown the options. A similar completed corsage was pulled out of the back to help me understand what it might look like as well as being shown the various wrist bands to see the colors. I had bought these at other places in the past but once I went here, I will never go anywhere else again. The quality is the best that I have ever seen and the florists kind.

I had my retirement party in August (sorry for the late reiview) at the Elks in San Mateo. I provided the flower bowls for the occassion and they did a great job with the flower arrangements for 12 tables, they delivered and set them up for me. My guests loved the arrangements and so did I.. I have ordered flowers from them directly, for every occassion and have always been happy with the results.

Zero stars.
This is by far the worst florist you can go to!
I completely agreed with earlier review that online picture does not justify what they
delivered. I ordered some flower arrangement it completely looked cheap, some of the flowers already coming out from the vase. It was not worth $ 79+ taxes.
If you buy from supermarket cost may be only $ 30. Horrible Business…
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SERIOUSLY, SAVE YOUR MONEY AND PICK UP SOME OTHER FLORIST.

I’m currently in college far away from my girlfriend of two years, so I went to the Redwood City Florist’s website to bring her flowers for me! Little did I know that daffodils are out of season in the fall… Sheri (from Redwood City Florist) emailed me to let me know that, after I had made the purchase, and was willing to help me find a new bouquet or create my own to match the price of the one I had originally wanted! She even was able to change the colors of roses and the vase on an order that I really liked on their website! For the hassle (which I created not knowing the daffodil’s season…), instead of the 10 roses in the selection I picked, Sheri put 12! I wouldn’t go anywhere else for any flower needs in the bay area: the selection and staff are both amazing.

New to area and away from town on my honey’s first day at work. Unilocal found me this place and called from afar. Very friendly and accommodating and oh yes. The flowers were gorgeous.

My fiancée at the time (now husband) were looking for a florist for our intimate wedding. We went to a few places, one actually didn’t let us see the blue orchids we wanted prior to making an order, let alone speak with the person in charge of making the arrangements. We continued to look around, and we actually live two blocks down from redwood city florists. We decided to check it out. I scheduled an appointment with Sharon (the owner) online. I sent her pictures of what I had envisioned for the bouquet. To our surprise when we arrived, she ordered blue orchids just for our consultation so we could see what the flowers looked like! Talking with her, we knew right away she had expertise and knowledge we couldn’t find elsewhere. Sharon even asked if we wanted our service dog to have a boutonnière! We left completely satisfied after our consultation. We purchased my bouquet, the boutonnieres, a hair piece for myself and our table centerpieces.
Sharon told us she would email us a sample arrangement soon so we could see what the flowers would like with our requested decoration idea. We received the email less than 20 minutes later!!!
What I especially liked about Sharon is she was able to take our ideas and use her creativity and knowledge to enhance and better our vision.
Four days before the wedding, we decided to add corsages for the raider of our wedding party, not a problem!!!
The day of our wedding, I picked up our order. The order consisted of my bouquet, boutonnieres, corsages and my matching hair piece. Seeing everything was breathtaking!!! The workmanship was AMAZING!!! I have never seen such beautiful arrangements in my life.
Our reception was held in Curiodyssey of San Mateo. We arrived at 5:10 to help set up, and our table arrangements were already there, the staffs punctuality for delivery was awesome:-) My husband and I got compliments on the flowers nonstop ALL NIGHT and even days later.
Sharon helped make our wedding day memorable, and we are grateful for that.
I would recommend EVERYONE to go here, and not waste their time going somewhere else. This location is truly an amazing family business

Ordered the «Florist’s Choice» bouquet for delivery to mom for mothers day. The description said that because it is florist’s choice, you get their biggest and best bouquets. Price with tax and delivery: $ 177 See picture of what they delivered and you be the judge.

Caution: This florist prints the name of the person who makes the purchase/​transaction on the delivery clip board. The recipient must sign the clip board when receiving the flowers and sees the name of who made the purchase. This triggered an argument in our family. One family member was very busy and asked another family member to do him a favor and send flowers on his behalf and gave the money to the other family member. When the recipient got the flowers, she had to sign on the delivery driver’s clipboard confirming she got the flowers. *** On that clip board it states «Purchased by: Name of the person who actually made the order.»
So, for example, if you are a busy Manager and you ask your Assistant to buy flowers for your wife’s birthday, when the flowers are delivered to your wife and she signs for them, she will see the Name of your Assistant as the purchaser — not you. You are then in the Dog House. Your name is on the card, but clearly you did not make the effort to make the purchase. They need to change this and KEEP NAMES OFF the delivery clip board. There is no reason to include this information on the clip board and it should stay internal at the store. Otherwise, the flowers were beautiful…

Best florist I have ever worked with hands down, I have sent about 7 arrangements to my new fiancé and every time they have been absolutely perfect! Most recently I ordered 50 long stem roses for Valentines Day, they were amazing but for some reason they died in about 4 days, without any questions at all RCF replaced the roses and delivered a new batch to my fiancé! Amazing customer service, amazing flowers, amazing people! Top rating and highly recommended!

ZERO stars. The unfortunate thing with sending someone flowers is that you may not receive feed back on the arrangement because the recipient is grateful and thankful. That is probably the reason why this florist does not have more poor reviews. Twice I received flowers from a friend and boss without the sender’s name. Both times the sender fully intended to have their name on the card, but both times the florist only attached the message. It was embarrassing when my boss had to ask me about the flowers. The second time I called the florist for the name of the sender. Really? Neither intended for the flowers to be anonymous.
I, personally, have never sent flowers by this florist because I have received flower arrangements from this florist. Both times, very underwhelmed. I am not criticizing the choice of flowers per price range, but the quality of work is terrible! There were, at least, five flowers stems that were broken (probably from being shoved into the arrangement) and never addressed by the florist. Regardless of the price range, presentation and work quality is true customer service.
I am grateful for my friends thoughtfulness, but I wish she would have saved her hard earned money and bought me an arrangement at Costco.
SAVE YOUR MONEY and go to Chu’s on El Camino in RWC. You will NOT be disappointed.

Extremely overpriced. I just got RIPPED OFF. I could do a better job on my own. I’m so disappointed… I needed something for a baby surgery. And a daisy arrangement with 4 balloons was 52 $. Very sad. They have horrible business going there. I should have walked out.

My honey baby love had flowers delivered to my classroom to celebrate our one year anniversary.
I loved my arrangement and my classy mercury glass bowl. My flowers were arranged beautifully and the color palette and selection was very feminine.
I’m writing from the perspective of someone receiving the flowers, and I will admit that I was pleased with Redwood City Florist. My husband said the ladies were very helpful and accommodating when he visited. I’ll be sure to check them out for my future floral needs.

Flowers were beautiful and delivered on time! thank you so much (:

Great value and great service. They even honored a coupon that they didn’t have to honor. Definitely will come back!

I have to thank Sharon and Redwood City Florists for their great customer service! I ordered a Pink/​Yellow flower arrangment online for my mom’s birthday and had it delivered to her office. She took a picture on her phone of the flowers (and an edible arrangement) that I had sent to her. She texted me the picutre and when I saw it, I was a little upset that it was not at all what I ordered online (Dark Blue flowers, plus the flowers were buds and not opened at all). I called the florists and expressed that I was disappointed with the arrangment. The woman I was speaking to agreed to send the driver back to pick up the arrangement so she could confirm that the order was processed correctly in terms of whether or not the correct flowers were used or just to make sure she received the correct order. I REALLY appreciated that she was not at all defensive, but was willing to retrive the flowers and make sure the order was correct. I asked who I was speaking with and it was Sharon, the owner. They went back to my mom’s office and picked up the flowers…
Sharon called me back and confirmed the arrangement was all pink and yellow roses that were all in mid-​bloom! Turns out my mom texted me a picture of flowers she got from SOMEONE ELSE!!! Yikes… I apologized to her for this mix-​up and could not stop thanking her for checking. Sharon was so gracious and I appreciate the extra mile they went to make sure I was happy with the order! THANK YOU!!!

Thank you so much for getting my mom her flower within hours of me ordering them online! She loved them! I will use you again! Thank you thank you!

I haven’t written a post in a long time but had to post something about this Florist after the service I received.
I ordered flowers from their website and upgraded to a deluxe arrangement. What arrived was in no way, shape, or form similar to what was posted on the website. Spent $ 90 for a vase and bouquet that looked like it cost $ 30. Stay away from the online ordering! Such a scam!

I received a flower arrangement from them for Valentine’s Day this year and I was completely not blown away. For $ 125 including tax, delivery, and two balloons, I’d expected something better. The flowers were not fresh and literally died within 3 days! I asked the sender where the flowers were from and he advised the flowers were ordered through
. He called to complain and was able to receive partial credit for the overly priced, poor quality flower arrangement.
Let’s just say the guy who tried so hard to impress failed with the flower sent from this place. Better luck next time… from a different florist!

My neighbor passed away on Labor day (on his anniversary!). It was so sad — he had heart failure in his sleep, and next thing you know there were 2 fire trucks and an ambulance parked in front of our house. His daughter couldn’t revive him, and he left behind a wife and 4 kids.
My own Dad passed away and it meant so much to me when people did stuff like send cards or flowers. It wasn’t that we really wanted or needed flowers and all that, but it was all about showing respect for my Dad. When your father passes away, it’s like you crawl into this little shell. The only people you want to even talk to are the ones who can truly emphathize with your situation, or the people who in some way show respect for your Dad by acknowledging the magnitude of your loss. It wasn’t like people had to do something spectacular, but every little kind word is just appreciated so much more than you can imagine. You feel like you’re walking around in a bad dream, and the world suddenly gets divided into two groups: The people who are lucky and still have their fathers and have no idea how fortunate they are, and the people who don’t.
Anyway, being part of the latter group, me and my husband wanted to get some flowers for my neighbors, and Redwood City florist came through with a really beautiful bouquet — the photo I uploaded doesn’t do it justice.
I’m kicking myself for not being able to remember the name of the sweet woman who put the flowers together for me. Apparently she owned the shop for something like 20 years, sold it, and decided to keep working there. I’m so glad she did.
I told her the family was about to drive for an hour to their other home in the east bay, for a week, and she put those little water holder thingies on the bottom of each stem. I was so impressed. I could only spend up to $ 40 and I thought of how tiny the arrangement would have been if I’d gone through something like FTD. The one she made had lilies, hydrangeas and lots of fall colors. It was just beautiful.
Thank you Redwood City Florist for helping me pay tribute to my neighbor, he was a good guy and I’m sure if he could see the arrangement you made, it would have made him very happy.