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The sweetest table in the room 

The Sweetheart Table is a beautiful way to create a vignette for the newlyweds.

What is a Sweetheart Table? It is the table at which the newlyweds sit at their dinner and reception. Set apart from the rest of the tables, it is typically a rectangular table and places a lovely focus on the wedding couple. Often this is the most photographed setting during the reception, so we aim to soften and frame the happy couple with florals!

Here are three examples that we love!

Fall scene with changing leaves and tapered candles at Factoria at Charles Point in Peekskill, NY. The arch was used for the ceremony, and we repurposed it to frame the sweetheart table for the reception. The eucalpytus and copper color of the fabric and candles were a perfect match! Lanterns placed asymmetrically in front of the table lent a lovely glow to the flower garland on the table.

Below, we featured lush greens and whites to offset the rough brick and stone of this historic building at the Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville, NY. With the prohibition on open flames, our LED pillar candles set the mood.

This beautiful riot of color for a late summer wedding was impactful with a trio of bud vases and and floating candles. Once again, we repurposed the floor installations from the ceremony and moved them to frame the Sweetheart Table at the Abbey Inn & Spa in Peekskill, NY.

We are wedding and event floral event specialists in Northern Westchester County. Call or book our wedding consultation and let us help make your dream day come to life with flowers!

You can’t spell team without tea!

We were so excited to take a morning for ourselves outside of the flower shop for “Anytime Tea” at Baked By Susan’s!

Naturally, we put the Upper Village Blooms spin on the experience and adorned the table with vibrant fall flowers, including local dahlias grown by Alex of Finney Farm Fine Foods. Place cards with dried flowers, soft table linens, and fresh waxflower in the napkin rings completed the overflowing table.

Once all 8 of us were seated, each selected the tea variety of our pot. From a selection including a rich Assam and a creamy Earl Grey, it was difficult to choose. Tiers of treats were placed on the table for all to share. We had a delicious assortment of savory and sweet options, and went about discussing our favorite bites!  The mini cucumber sandwiches, tiny croissants stuffed with egg salad, lemon poppy scones, and chocolate chip cookies were delectable. Susan makes her clotted cream herself, and it was out of this world!

Satisfied and nourished, we reluctantly said goodbye to Susan and to one other, but we each had a to-go box of goodies! We highly recommend this outing for a mini-staff retreat, birthday celebration, or just to add some magic to an ordinary day. 

To experience the tea service at Baked By Susan, visit their website or call (914) 862-0874.

If you’d like to add flowers to sweeten the occasion, contact us for free delivery!

The ambience of the Bakery, with sunlight and all the lovely smells of breads and pastries made our tea extra appetizing! It was a pleasure to treat ourselves to this festive experience here in Croton.

We’ve got you this Mother’s Day!

With Mother's Day just around the corner, have you thought about how to show your appreciation for the amazing women in your life? Flowers are always a great way to express your love and gratitude, and at Upper Village Blooms, we have the perfect arrangements to make this day special.

We have carefully curated a selection of stunning arrangements that are sure to make any mother smile for days. We only use the freshest, highest-quality blooms to ensure that our arrangements are not only beautiful but long-lasting too. How do we know? Our customers tell us!

Choose from our 2023 Mother's Day Collection - which features three new elegant vase arrangements, our ever-popular Luxe Blooms, or full and vibrant wrapped bouquets are all perfect choices this Spring!

With local delivery, you can surprise your mom with beautiful blooms right at her doorstep, even from afar. (We recommend Friday or Saturday delivery to extend the love and appreciation!)

Order early and let us help you make this Mother's Day unforgettable. Place your order online before Monday May 8th for free 10520 delivery!

Thank you for entrusting Upper Village Blooms to create something special for your loved ones.

Flowers in Vase

Administrative Professionals Week

Now that your Administrative Professional Genie is working from home, flowers are needed more than ever!

Brighten up their WFH set up with gorgeous blooms that express how much you appreciate them.

We have Luxe Blooms available that are arriving fresh bi-weekly from our flower suppliers, so order with confidence on our website. Call or email if you have any questions and we will happily answer any.

Make this Administrative Professionals Week extra-special for your support team because even though NYS is on PAUSE, they are still working!

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Administrative Professionals Week


”If people know how it’s done, all the magic goes.”

-Charlie Chaplin

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Happy St Patrick's Day to You!

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Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, which is why Upper Village Blooms offers a signature posy for your lapel! Our Luck o’ the Irish boutonnieres are priced right for your Parade march, and the hardy carnation will last until that very last stop on the Irish Pub Crawl in Peekskill!

It’s best to pre-order but we are making some to have at-hand for the Parades in both Westchester and NYC.

Saint Patrick’s Day Parades in Westchester County

White Plains Saturday, March 14 at noon

Peekskill’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 14 at 3 p.m.

Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown Annual St. Patrick’s Parade Sunday, March 15 at 1 p.m.

The Eastchester Irish-American Social Club St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday, March 15 at 3 p.m.

Sound Shore St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday, March 22 at 1:30 p.m. on Mamaroneck Ave

Yonkers St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 21 at 1:00 p.m. on McLean Ave

Green Carnation with Weeping Podocarpus, Eucalyptus, Black Tree Fern, tied with a black organza ribbon and finished with gold …what else?!

Green Carnation with Weeping Podocarpus, Eucalyptus, Black Tree Fern, tied with a black organza ribbon and finished with gold …what else?!

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Thanksgiving Flowers

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This season we have created some autumnal designs that are bright, sunny and … warm! It is, after all, the season for giving thanks.

We found some darling Terracotta and Ghost Pumpkin Planters and created sweet arrangements that are perfect for an intimate dinner —they also happen to make fancied-for host gifts. The ceramic pumpkin can be reused as a decorative piece, vase or even a stylish storage container.

For a larger table, we recommend our Signature Centerpiece— which is all flowers!

For those who love the warmth of a traditional vessel, we offer our Overflowing Cornucopia. Some have mini-gourds or pumpkins nestled amongst the roses, hypericum berries and chrysanthemums.

Let us know if we can deliver to you —we offer free delivery in Croton to make your life a little easier— or have it ready for you to pick up in-store. Our shop hours not align with yours? We cheerfully open our shop by appointment, so please let us know!

In keeping with the spirit of Friendship and Abundance, we are giving you an Early (Turkey) Bird Discount!

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Order your Thanksgiving Centerpieces by Sunday 11/24 and take 10% off!

Use Code SQBZQ71 when ordering online.

For more details, or to order easily online, check out our Thanksgiving Arrangements!

Do you envision something entirely different for your table? We can make it happen! Contact us at (914) 862-0755 or send us an email at info@uppervillageblooms.com.

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Columbia Road Flower Market

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Our Twitter feed somehow is filled with gorgeously creative flower designers and shops in the U.K. For inspiration, we follow the Royal Horticultural Society and Flower Joos, among so many others!

On a recent trip to London, we were determined to visit the Columbia Road Flower Market. It is an open air market occupying roughly a block of Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, East London. Open to the public on Sunday mornings, it is jam packed with shoppers looking for flowers, plants, pots and antiques.

From the beginning of its historical record, Columbia Road’s unsavory past has been … dark. It was an area where crime was rampant and Resurrection Men hid out. The London Burkers were feared body snatchers in the early 19th century, selling cadavers to anatomists for a pretty penny.

In 1869, the land was purchased by Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts in order to save the area from its grim reality. Her intent was to create a fish and produce market and indeed, produce was sold there for about twenty years, until it closed and went into decline. The Baroness spent a fortune on a Gothic Hall market which was never really used, as the locals preferred to sell in the open air. (The Book of London Place Names, Caroline Taggart p. 197.)

The market evolved into a flower market, with songbirds for sale. The market, originally held on Saturdays, was moved to Sundays in order to accommodate Jewish traders. This was upheld by an Act of Parliament. The market has endured, despite a direct bombing during the Blitz on September 7, 1940.

This thriving market was festive on the day we visited, with street buskers and flower sellers calling their pitch “ev’ry thing a fiver!” We browsed everything from potted chillies to bamboo and all the gorgeous flowers in between. The hydrangea were in season and everything looked so inspiring!

Open every Sunday from 8am to about 3pm.

Sources and more info:
Caroline Corinne’s The Women of Columbia Road

Columbia Road Flower Market

And please, follow us on Twitter!



Wouldst thou garland thyself with flowers?

It’s August! And do you know what that means? A day at the Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, NY! This yearly event is well-loved by so many because it is immersive— one enjoys it best not as a spectator but as a participant.

Every weekend until October 6th, you can step back in time 500 years to Elizabethan England. Caper around the Olde Village without a care and spend your shillings on ale or mead. You can attend a jousting tournament as a courtier, or try your skill at archery.

The easiest path to participation is cosplay. Doublets and hose for the Lords and finery for your Grace? Or perhaps thou art a poxy outlaw brigand in disguise, or a slatternly tavern wench?

God’s teeth, such raiment in the summertime? By your leave, we humbly offer a suggestion— Flower Crowns! They come in a variety of colors, price points, and styles. We have some made of dried flowers, fresh blooms, or silk ones.

Our Shoppe offers reasonably priced flower crowns for small princesses and grown fayries. Order yours today!

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.

Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1
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— A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare

The New York Renaissance Faire

By God’s Bones: Medieval Swear Words

42 Old English Insults

The History of English: Early Modern (Warning: serious word nerds only)

Grammercy, Mistress Elisa, for suggesting Upper Village Blooms offer RenFaire flower crowns!

And we thank all of our flower crown models from the bottom of our hearts.

A Trip to 28th Street

Yesterday was a perfect day to wake up painfully early and visit the Flower Market in Chelsea!

With the change of the seasons, we’ve been looking for an infusion of energy and creative inspiration. Visiting the tulip farms outside Amsterdam isn’t an option this year, so we went to New Amsterdam to find the new flowers we crave.

First of all, why can’t we find Tuberose anywhere in Westchester but we can buy them at any Dean & Deluca in the city? Every single flower dealer on 28th St. sells them! We bought two bunches (the second dealer we visited had the healthiest selection) and are patiently waiting for them to open and release their fragrance. Polianthes tuberosa, of the asparagus family, is a night-bloomer native to Mexico.

If you’ve never smelled a tuberose in bloom, it is worth your while to stop in and sniff them. It gets the oxytocin going.

Stopping in at Caribbean Cuts, we met with Tom and talked about drying lotus flowers, heliconia, and how much we loved their sprouting coconuts. We walked away with one of them, and he gave us his tips on how to care for our new Sprout! You can see he’s in our window.

Below you can see some of our favorite things from our trip: baby Pineapples, budding fuschia Magnolia branches, giant Thistle, and miniature Carnations that are the size of a dime. You might even see some of this unique gorgeousness in our corsages and boutonnières for Jr Prom this Saturday!

Buying Local Flowers

When it comes to buying flowers, you can order online at a reseller, go to a supermarket, or order from a local florist. We understand that you have choices, and that sometimes one is a better choice than another. 

At an online reseller, your flowers choices are limited to what’s on the screen. Look at the photos and you will see that each floral design can be broken down into a very specific recipe to allow it to be cheaply and easily re-created. If the vendor belongs to a wire service, each layer of service provider (POS, florist, delivery, etc) takes a percentage of your money. The hard-earned, post-income, pre-sales tax $100 that you spent has dissolved into $75 worth of flowers. And after commercial shipping, they look rather worse for wear. 

At a supermarket, your money buys a lot of cut stems. These flowers are standard varieties and grown in the cheapest conditions. The design and care given to these flowers are minimal, and that’s all we really need to say.

Some local florists belong to wire services, and for this they pay fees every month. As above, your flowers are compromised by the percentage slices claimed by this marketing chain.


Upper Village Blooms takes orders only from our customers. Therefore, we do not pay wire services to bring in volume business. 

We drive ourselves to the flower wholesale markets twice weekly to hand-select the freshest flowers available. The flowers we choose are above-market and are not available to supermarkets and wire services. When we return to the shop, we typically spend 3-6 hours cleaning, trimming and preparing them. We give them another quality check, and only then do they go into custom arrangements or are available for you to choose as a single bloom. 

When we sell you flowers, we expect to see you again. Either because we’re neighbors or our kids are in the same school, or perhaps because our flowers are extraordinary. We care for them tremendously, it is what we do. We also sneak more flowers into our arrangements and bouquets because it is another way to show how much we love our flowers!

We are a small retail shop in an amazing Rivertown with foot traffic, wheelchair accessibility and parking. When we say we are proud to be a part of our community, we mean it —we do not charge a standard delivery fee within 10520. 

Come visit us and see how the Upper Village is Blooming!













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Getting ready for Valentine's Day Part 2

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Oh the flowers!

We cleaned over 600 roses alone and it was worth every scratch and heavy bucket. We’re not sure if we can trust anyone who doesn’t like dogs or roses.

No, it’s not too late to call to order flowers for pick up or delivery tomorrow!

Valentine’s Day Specials

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❤︎ One dozen Hearts Roses in vase $95.00

❤︎ One and a half dozen Hearts Roses in vase $135.00

❤︎ Six Hearts roses wrapped bouquet $45.00

All roses are accompanied by our lush wild greens assortment. 

Please contact us to reserve a special color or flower.

Our signature red rose variety, Hearts, is a luscious garden-style bloom with large rosettes and multi-layered ruffled petals.

In addition to red Hearts, we offer premium roses in various Valentine’s Day colors, standard and ruffled Tulips, and our ever-popular Mixed Signature Blooms!

 

Take 10% off Flower Orders Placed by 2/9

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Shiny Skull Productions

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We are so thankful to Alex Joseph of Shiny Skull Productions for taking these photos of our floral arrangements. He did an exceptional job capturing the texture and nuances of the flowers in our romantic arrangements. We can’t believe how gorgeous they are!

Take a look at his Facebook Page!

https://www.facebook.com/shinyskullproductions/

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