WHAT DAYS DO YOU DELIVER?

We deliver most Mondays through Friday. We also deliver Mother’s day weekend, and Valentine’s Day.

WHERE DO I CHOOSE A DELIVERY DATE?

Once you have selected the color palette and the size arrangement you are looking to purchase, you will be able to choose from the available delivery dates before checking out. We deliver anywhere in San Francisco.

HOW MUCH DOES DELIVERY COST? 

Delivery of single arrangements cost $20 to any address in San Francisco. Prices increase for holiday delivery.

DO YOU OFFER SAME DAY DELIVERY?

Occasionally we have openings remaining in the early morning for a few extra delivery spots, but as we see our suppliers in the predawn hours, and try to buy only what we have orders for that day to keep everything as fresh as possible, most often we turn off delivery options the night before. To check delivery availability, select the color palette and size arrangement you are looking for and the available delivery dates will appear on the next page. Delivery dates usually go live about a week in advance, and we do recommend placing your order as early as possible if it is for a special occasion as some days sell out many days in advance. 

WHAT TIME WILL MY ORDER BE DELIVERED?

Our deliveries go out between 9am and 4pm Monday through Friday. If the recipient is not usually home during the day we recommend delivery to a workplace. As we try to keep our footprint on the planet as light as possible, we take all deliveries in a route that has us driving as little as possible, and for this reason cannot accept timed delivery requests. If we arrive at the recipient's home or work to find no one home and there is not a safe shaded place to leave it, we will call the recipient to work out a time for a second attempt. 

HOW LARGE WILL MY ARRANGEMENT BE AT A GIVEN PRICE POINT?

When you click on a style and size you will be taken to a page that has many example photos. These photos correspond with the various price options, moving from lowest to highest. Please keep in mind that these examples represent an average for each price point, but depending on the flower choices of the day, and the varying market price per stem, they can be slightly smaller or larger. We also stock a wide assortment of ceramic and metal containers and if we choose a wider container to match your chosen color scheme the arrangement may be more low and sprawling, and if we choose a taller thinner container it may end up a pit more tall and branchy. 

DO YOU DELIVER OUTSIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO?

Not at the moment. We just deliver in San Francisco proper, the zipcodes between 94102 - 94124 and 95158.

CAN I REQUEST SPECIFIC FLOWER TYPES OR COLORS?

As a way to stay true to our mission of buying as many locally sourced blooms as possible, and to make sure we are able to buy the most beautiful and fresh flowers to stock our supply everyday, we can not shop for each order individually but rather focus on creating a mood and feeling through texture and color palette. Don’t worry, we know you like peonies and ranunculus and dahlias, etc. We do too, and will use them whenever the season and budget allows. 

To check out what seasonal blooms we have been extra excited to work with recently, pop over to our blog or our instagram account @thefloralloft

HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU?

As we do not take requests for timed delivery or customization of orders, we hope all the information you need will be available through this site. Once you have placed an order, if you realize you have made a mistake on the card or address, you can contact us by responding to the receipt you receive via email (so make sure to give us your real email address!).

CAN YOU SEND ME A PICTURE OF THE ARRANGEMENT?

We do not send photos of the daily arrangements we make, mostly because it is often redundant as we hear frequently that the recipient texted the sender a photo and they let us know how pleased and excited they were to see the final result. We also want to make sure that our first priorities are making beautiful creations and getting them out to San Franciscans as punctually as possible so we try to minimize the distractions that take our focus away from doing those things the very best we can. 

OUR MISSION

After owning a shop in San Francisco for almost a decade and working in a variety of flower shops around the country for years before that, I realized that the way we are trained to buy flowers might not be working for us as well as we thought, it may not be encouraging artistry in the designer, and therefore may be cheating the recipients out of the whimsy and element of surprise that an arrangement made with passion can deliver. Taking orders every day for very specific flower types and very precise specifications led me to shopping mechanically for things on a list rather than being able to shop for what was most inspiring and sadly kept me from being able to buy from local growers as frequently as I liked. When I had the opportunity to design pieces around a color palette however, the result of that was pure magic. I was able to match the freckles in a foxglove to the deep plum of a double tulip, and the chartreuse tips of lisianthus to the pillowy blossoms of local snowball viburnum. Each element I chose seemed to reach for the next. To be filled with such excitement got me thinking about the reason I do this, my love of these tiny wonders, and how I could get back to this passion and make sure every recipient of our flowers felt that their arrangement was made with this much love. 

At The Floral Loft our mission is to offer our clients a choice of moods, created through color and texture and meant to express your sentiments through the beautiful flowers of northern California. We know that it can be difficult to ceed control and let someone else make the creative decisions for you, but we hope in the end you will come to love this process that takes clients, the florist, and the recipient on a mutual adventure. 

PICK-UP LOCATION

PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO PLACE ORDERS FOR PICK UP

1871 Hayes St

(Between Masonic Ave and Ashbury St)

San Francisco, CA 94117