Florists
Larger-than-average flower shop on No. 5 Road in east Richmond with a big cooler and long daily hours. Worth the drive for volume orders such as funerals, banquets and Lunar New Year, and for staff who walk you through the options.
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Compact flower counter inside the T&T Supermarket at Lansdowne, open late seven days a week. Convenient for grabbing a wrapped bouquet on the way through the mall or picking up flowers along with the week's groceries.
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A small florist counter operating inside a larger balloon and party shop on First Avenue in Steveston. Useful for a last-minute bouquet or a flowers-plus-balloons combination for a birthday, though it keeps short afternoon hours.
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Quiet Alexandra Road shop that does a lot of sympathy and memorial work, including cemetery wreaths and standing sprays, alongside everyday bouquets. The owner takes custom orders by phone and will match a photo or a colour brief.
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Small shop tucked into the Alexandra Road strip in the Golden Village, open since the early 2000s. Staff build hand-wrapped bouquets, wedding pieces and funeral tributes to order, and it is one of the closer options to the Aberdeen malls.
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Neighbourhood flower shop in the Garden City Shopping Centre at Blundell Road, open every day into the evening. Handles walk-in bouquets, occasion arrangements and local delivery for people around Blundell and Broadmoor.
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Design-led flower studio on Westminster Highway near the City Centre, known as much for its houseplants as its bouquets. Good for a considered gift arrangement or a sympathy order when you want something less cookie-cutter.
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From the blog
Longer reads from the editor, with the places worth a detour linked inside them.
Nothing on Alexandra Road is a hidden gem. It is just in a strip mall with bad signage and no patio, which is why visitors never find it. Here is how I actually use Richmond's plazas and food courts, which specialists are worth the drive, and when not to bother.
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The West Dyke Trail is about five and a half kilometres of flat gravel between Terra Nova Rural Park and Garry Point, and I ride it most mornings. Here is what is actually at the north end, which way to walk so the wind is on your side, and why winter is the better season for it.
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I live four blocks off Moncton Street, so this is the Steveston I actually use: where to park before the Bayview lots fill, how to buy fish straight off the boats at the wharf, the honest answer to the Pajo's versus Dave's question, and why the history here is not decoration.
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