Austin Flower Co

I thought I’d support a local business by purchasing a birthday bouquet here for a friend. Upon entering the shop, there were 5 employees standing around. Not one asked if I needed help. Hmm, ok… I walked into the sub-​arctic area where they keep the flowers. I was surprised at the limited variety that was available, and what was there didn’t look particularly fresh. The few bouquets that they had were ridiculously priced at $ 45 each. Hell no! I got back into my car & drove around the corner to Central Market, where I should have gone in the first place.

This place is wonderful! Maria is amazing and was such a huge help in picking and ordering flowers for our wedding. Their selection definitely depends on what day of the week you go, but on the days we went they had a great variety and the prices were WAY better than anywhere else we looked, especially because we set up a wholesale account. We had a little bit of a hiccup when we went to pick up our flowers two days before the wedding and our orchids were the wrong color blue (we’d ordered a cobalt blue and the orchids that came in were a sky blue which wouldn’t match anything), but at that point we were so used to things going wrong that we just rolled with it. They were really cool about it and did everything they could to make it right at no extra cost to us, and we ended up leaving with tons of blue delphiniums and blue roses, so it all worked out. They’re awesome and their customer service is great!

6:03 on a rainy day. Rushing to get my little sister Homecoming flowers. Doors open. Missed it by 3 minutes. Told we are closed at 6. I understand the closing times but maybe the clerk could just be nice and help me. That’s the Texas way? Disappointment.

This company is the best. We work with them often and love the quality of product.

Excellent selection, very helpful staff. Will be going back.

I came here for flowers for my wedding. They made what could have been a stressful experience very enjoyable.
I was in the market for white calla lilies and something purple to go with it. I tried ordering a bride’s bouquet short notice from Ben White Flower Co., which their website says they do, but a.) they could not get me calla lilies or irises, and b.) ultimately their designer was too busy to make the bouquet.
This turned out to be a happy accident, since Austin Flower Company had the flowers I wanted and then some. I got my lilies and irises, plus veronica. They also had some rad dark purple small calla lilies, but I passed on them when the clerk warned me they were $ 30 a bunch. However, once he heard I was there for wedding bouquet materials, he offered his expertise, and demonstrated how to use hydrangea to set up the flowers in the bouquet without hassle — and so I went home and made a badass bouquet. In the end, he gave me a rad wedding present, too — slipping the purple lilies in the package with the rest of my purchases.

Love their selection, prices and amazing customer service! They were all so helpful and I appreciate their suggestions and giving me wholesale prices on some of the more expensive flowers.

This place is Awesome! My husband went here to buy my flowers for my birthday this year and I absolutely LOVED them. This means a lot to me because I have been telling my husband the kind of flowers I like for the past 16 years and he has never gotten it right. This year I was surprised to see him walk in with such a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I knew he had not done this on his own, that is when he mentioned how great Dylan was and how he could not have brought home such a great bouquet of flowers if he had gone to all the other flower shops he had shopped at in the previous years. Thank you Dylan for helping my husband pick the perfect flowers for me. You are great and made my birthday very special (I finally felt like my husband heard me all these years and knows me). I told my husband that this place is the only flower shop he should go to from now on.

The absolute best flower shop in Austin! The service is unparalleled and the staff is amazing. So kind, sweet, helpful and always smiling. I always purchase my flowers there and will continue to do so.
Thank you for amazing customer service and gorgeous flowers.

I went in last night to purchase flowers for my daughters wedding. They were so helpful and offered great suggestions for our budget. The young man that helped us was friendly and knowledgeable. I wont go anywhere else!

I LOVE this place! The staff are AWESOME! Dylan and Gaynor are so helpful and knowledgeable about the flowers. Thomas is so friendly the rest of the staff are just amazing. They always have what I need and then some! I would recommend this place to everyone.

This is the best place in town to get a quick bouquet of gorgeous, fresh, cost effective flowers. Beautiful, unique selection, always has some kind of good deal or flower on special. The BEST part is the service. All the people who have ever helped me here are wonderful, but Dylan is GREAT! He not only went above and beyond for for me, but with the customer in front of me as well. This will keep me coming back for sure.

First Unilocal review ever. But I had such a great experience here at Austin Flower Company that I felt I needed to give them a huge shout out.
I was in town for our destination wedding and decided to make my own bouquet. After finding Austin Flower company online, I went the day before I got married to get the flowers. The selection was great, and it was really easy to pick what I wanted. Then we met Dylan. Dylan asked a few questions and quickly found out my plans for the flowers. He gave me wholesale pricing because I was the bride, and showed me a few tips on how to make the bouquet look best. He made sure we had something to carry them all in, and helped walk the flowers to the car. We were really impressed with the level of customer service at that point– when he asked us to wait a few minutes while he ran back inside. A few minutes later he comes back with more flowers that he felt would make the bouquet look nice. What? Free? Could this experience have gone any better? The answer is no. Best ever.
Dylan– you went above and beyond, and I am so appreciative of your willingness and generosity.
This place rocks.

I stopped in here yesterday (6 days before Easter) to get 2 potted Easter lilies for my Morehand’s ladies (they’re sweet and I like to surprise them now and then), and I decided to get an extra one for our office at UT. It was quick– the lilies were lined up inside; I picked 3; the guy at the counter found some covers for the pots, and I paid him. He put together a box to make it easier for me to carry them.
This wasn’t an involved purchase (such as would be expected while choosing flowers for a wedding), but it was quick and pleasant. I don’t often need to buy flowers — usually just to make amends when I make a woman angry, but that doesn’t happen often anymore. My mother did teach me to take flowers when I’m invited to someone’s house for dinner, and this is the place I’ll go for that.
I’m glad I went here, and will go back when I need flowers.

Some of the flowers here are a bit pricey, yes. But not ridiculous. They have a fantastic selection and the staff is VERY helpful. They also have some plants so it’s a great place to stop to pick up a house warming/​anniversary arrangement/​whatever.

HAD to write about the CORAL PEONIES!!! AMAZING! Every day they are another, gorgeous color (as foretold by the salesperson). Peonies have long been my favorite flower… Now coral is my favorite– favorite!

I bought succulents yesterday for a friend and the florist was extremely helpful and nice! He told me specifically how to care for the plants and gave me tissue papers to wrap then with and a box to carry them out.
I will be coming back to buy more flowers and plants in the future :)

Wish I could give them 3.5 stars. I really do like Austin Flower Co, but they are a bit pricey. I generally come here when I’m planning on getting flowers for anyone. Since I know absolutely nothing about plants or flowers, they make it easy with pre-​made bundles that I can choose from and scoop up and buy. They are always really beautiful, but very expensive (about $ 40). They seem to have a decent selection of other flowers and interesting fillers and their employees are at least pretty helpful and knowledgeable.
They also sell vases here, which is handy.
As for the guy raving about price gouging, umm. that’s what happens. Not sure how you managed to be a loyal customer for 10 years and then decide never to go back just because prices went up for the busiest holiday for a floral shop of the year.

Well, I found my hydrangea had fungus on it, 2 days later from buying, with brown spots and white fluff not only at the tip of leaves, but also at a tiny dead flower.
Some leaves had been carefully cut by the Austin Flower Co. at the very tip (to my surprise, I even didn’t notice that when buying it) but I still can see the brown edge with white cilium of fungus. They must knew that this plant had been sick.
I checked out the pathology atlas of hydrangea on internet and found it was called GRAY MOLD, which could be found on leaves and flowers and is easy to treat. So it is a reminder to those who plan to buy hydrangea from them since it’s a communicable disease and all their hydrangea pot stay in the same room with very limited distance from each other.
I think it was my fault that I didn’t check every leaf carefully enough before paying money for it. Nevertheless, Austin Flower Co actually took really good care of the plant because they had cut the infected tip of leaves, which is too tiny to notice for a careless layman like me.
However, I still wanna ask a question: why didn’t you mention the problem to the customer even when you not only had known the problem, but also had already cut the leave tip?
Four stars for reasonable price, good service and good care of plants. The missed star is for the communicable gray molds they didn’t even mention.

This is my go to place for flowers. I usually have an idea of what I’m thinking, and they will help you find something to compliment what you’re going for. They do wholesale and retail. When do you find someone that will help you put it together and even be thinking about what the best color of the tissue paper on the outside of the bouquet?
I saw some pretty cool plants as well — a yellow pepper potted plant looked pretty awesome.