Church Street Flowers

The owners behind Church Street Flowers know their stuff: The trio has a combined 35 years of flower shop experience, and two of them were raised by florists and landscape designers. (Co-owner Brianna Foehr’s grandfather helped design the gardens in Golden Gate Park.) You’ll find anywhere from 100 to 200 varieties of blooms in the store at any time, plus various types of protea, banksia, pods, grasses, branches and tropical plants. The shop is known for bold, statement-making custom bouquets—“the weirder, the better!” declares co-owner Rachel Shinfeld. Most of the blooms hail from California, Oregon and Washington, but the trio will occasionally reach into South America, Holland, Israel and New Zealand for particular rarities.