We are local Croton residents who love flowers, our community, and making life a little brighter.

Our wish is simply to provide a happy experience in our village.

Whether it’s a call for local flower delivery to Croton-On-Hudson from out-of-town, or customers stopping in for gifts and flowers, we take pride in offering fresh flowers, unusual items, and attention to service.

We have a selection of choices for any occasion. Our floral designers will design your arrangement, bouquet, or tribute especially for you. Our signature style is mixed flowers, yet with a little advanced notice, we can provide you with special varieties or colors that are meaningful to you or your recipient.

At Upper Village Blooms, you will find unusual varieties of roses in various colors, heirloom carnations (don’t groan! they are lovely), and many favorites such as freesia, sunflowers, and tulips. We love our inspiring greens. We usually have eucalyptus, various grasses, ferns and herbs.

We are completely 100% independent -we don’t pay national order-gatherers to send us orders with mediocre floral designs. Our flowers and designs are created by us and is dependent on the freshest seasonal flowers we find at the flower markets.

We also have orchids (faux and living), air plants, succulents, and easy care choices such as peace lilies —one of the most effective air-filtering house plants. If you have a particular plant in mind, let us know and we can order you one. Or three. 

Even though we are fans of retro (hai we love carnations), we can’t promise that we would offer red roses, leatherleaf fern and baby’s breath together. Like, ever. 

We will be your favorite florist in Croton On Hudson - think fresh, local flower delivery.

After 5+ years in the Upper Village,
we have become Croton’s Top Florist!

catherine kondo arkin

Catherine is a local jewelry designer with loads of graphic design and branding experience. Having lived locally for two decades, she is dedicated to truly personalized customer service. While at Uni she worked at a local florist in Southern California and studied ikebana.

There she was first trained by florist Ray Nakamura, and she is grateful for his teaching. Incredibly, that flower shop is still open for business!

Catherine opened her own flower shop in 2018, and is the sole owner of Upper Village Blooms.

Samantha Barr

Samantha Barr, our Senior Designer, brings extensive floral event knowledge and experience. While working for an accessories brand she was tasked with ordering flowers for the showroom and assisting on still-life shoots - the obsession started to grow from there. After the New York Flower School, she has freelanced professionally with Rosehip Social, Popup Florist, and Cape Lily to name a few.

Her teaching experience includes private classes at HudCo, a co-working space in Dobbs Ferry, where she also worked on the operations team. Her favorite aspect of the job was collaborating with local artists and businesses to create immersive events and workshops for their members and the public.

Drawing inspiration from many sources --such as a field of flowers, whimsical still-life paintings, and day trips around the Hudson Valley -- her floral creations are wild designs, romantic and gestural with movement and lightness.