Florists
Family-run shop on Williams Road in south Richmond doing hand-tied bouquets, arrangements and event work, with delivery across the city. Handy if you live south of Blundell and don't want to drive up to the City Centre malls.
Event flowers get planned weeks out rather than picked up on the day, and that is the part of this shop worth knowing about well in advance. Touch of Flowers is a family-run business on Williams Road doing hand-tied bouquets, arrangements, and work for weddings and functions. A local florist who takes that kind of booking is a completely different proposition from a bucket of stems at a supermarket, and the conversation happens long before anything needs to be ready.
For everyday flowers the argument is simpler. If you live south of Blundell you do not have to drive up to the City Centre malls, which is fifteen minutes each way plus a parkade for something you could have collected on the way home.
South Richmond is almost entirely residential. You get single-family streets, schools, parks and long flat blocks running between Blundell and Steveston Highway. The small commercial strips scattered along Williams Road survive because the neighborhood actually uses them rather than because of passing trade, and that is a decent filter on quality all by itself.
Williams Road runs east to west across the south of the city, connecting the Steveston end to No. 5 Road, and most residents use it daily without ever thinking about it. Strips like these have low buildings, a handful of long-standing tenants and no particular ambition, which is a large part of why people keep going back to the same three or four shops for years at a time.
In the Broadmoor neighbourhood of Richmond.
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Neighborhood 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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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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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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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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Corner flower shop at Westminster Highway and Gilbert Road, a short walk from Richmond Hospital, which is why a lot of get-well and sympathy orders start here. Long-tenured owner who will build to a budget, plus local delivery.
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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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