Florists in Wilkes-Barre Township, PA

Reading reviews the right way before you call

A useful review about a florist in Wilkes-Barre Township tells you something concrete: the flowers arrived on the day promised, the arrangement matched the photo sent for confirmation, the person who answered the phone was patient with a last-minute change, or the shop substituted one bloom for another and called first to ask. Specifics matter more than star counts. A review that says "beautiful" without saying what was ordered, for what occasion, and whether it showed up on time is not worth much. Look instead for details about communication, about how a shop handled a mix-up, and about whether the price matched what was quoted on the phone.

Discount reviews that read like they were written by someone with no real transaction behind them, reviews posted in a cluster on the same day, and reviews that praise or condemn a shop for something outside its control, like a courier delay during a snowstorm. A single bad review buried among many detailed, positive ones usually means less than a pattern of the same complaint repeated by different customers. Moderated reviews, the kind that cannot be bought or deleted by the business, are the only ones worth trusting when you are choosing between two shops on opposite ends of town.

What the two shops in town actually offer

Wilkes-Barre Township has two florists operating within its borders. Decker's Flowers, at 295 Blackman St, is a florist open seven days a week. Kath's Creation, at 440 Hazle St Ste 1, is both a florist and a gift shop, also open seven days a week. That is the extent of what can be said plainly about each without guessing at quality or specialty. Both being open daily is worth noting for anyone who needs flowers on a Sunday or a holiday when many retail florists in smaller towns close their doors.

Because Kath's Creation also functions as a gift shop, it may be a useful stop if you are looking to pair flowers with a card, a small keepsake, or another gift item picked up in the same visit. Decker's Flowers is listed strictly as a florist. Beyond these facts, the only way to know how either shop handles a rush order, a custom arrangement, or a delicate delivery window is to read what past customers have written about their own experiences and, ideally, to call ahead and ask directly.

Delivery realities in Wilkes-Barre Township

Wilkes-Barre Township sits along the Route 309 and Route 11 corridor just south of the city of Wilkes-Barre proper, in an area dense with retail centers and residential streets branching off the main commercial strip. Local delivery from either shop should be straightforward within town limits given the small footprint of the township itself. Deliveries heading into the neighboring city of Wilkes-Barre, or across the river into Kingston and Forty Fort, involve a bit more distance and, depending on traffic and the time of day, a bit more time. Mountain Top sits up on the ridge to the south, which can mean a longer and slower drive during winter weather. Shavertown and Nanticoke are each a modest drive in their own directions, west and southwest respectively.

No florists from those nearby towns are listed as delivering into Wilkes-Barre Township itself, which means residents here are served directly by the two shops located within the township. If you live near the edge of town, it is reasonable to ask a shop whether your address falls within their standard delivery zone or whether a delivery fee applies for the extra distance. Same-day delivery is common practice among local florists for orders placed early enough in the day, but cutoff times vary by shop and by season, so a phone call is the only reliable way to confirm one.

What is in season and fair pricing by month

Flower pricing in the Wilkes-Barre area tends to follow the same seasonal patterns as the rest of northeastern Pennsylvania. In late winter, tulips, daffodils, and early ranunculus start showing up as growers ship them in, and a modest mixed bouquet often runs somewhere between twenty five and forty dollars. Valentine's Day in February is the exception to every seasonal rule, since roses are in heavy demand nationwide and prices climb accordingly, often putting a dozen roses in the sixty to ninety dollar range depending on stem length and packaging.

Spring, from March through May, brings peonies, lilacs, and a wider variety of local greenery once the last frost passes, and prices tend to settle back down into a more moderate range, with a nice spring arrangement often landing between thirty and fifty dollars. Summer months bring an abundance of sunflowers, zinnias, and dahlias, some of which may be sourced from growers within the region, and prices in this season are often among the most reasonable of the year, roughly twenty five to forty five dollars for a full arrangement.

Fall introduces chrysanthemums, asters, and richer color palettes tied to the harvest season, with pricing similar to summer unless a wedding or a large event pushes demand up. Winter, aside from the Valentine's spike, includes the Thanksgiving through New Year stretch, when poinsettias, amaryllis, and evergreen arrangements become common, often priced between thirty and sixty dollars depending on the size of the container and whether it includes a live plant versus cut flowers. Custom or large arrangements, wedding work, and sympathy pieces for a funeral home service will run higher than any of these everyday ranges, sometimes well past a hundred dollars depending on scale.

The occasions that keep local florists busiest

Certain days bring a predictable rush to any florist in a town this size. Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are the two biggest single days of the year for cut flower sales nationally, and Wilkes-Barre Township is no exception. Both shops being open seven days a week is a practical advantage here, since these occasions do not always fall on a weekday. Graduation season in late spring, when local high schools and Wilkes University and King's College nearby hold their ceremonies, brings a smaller but steady wave of orders. Funerals and sympathy arrangements are a year-round need rather than a seasonal one, and a shop's ability to turn around a same-day or next-day sympathy piece matters a great deal to families arranging a service on short notice. Weddings, while not as frequent as the holiday rushes, tend to be planned months in advance and require a much longer conversation with a florist about color, budget, and delivery timing to the venue.

Ordering direct instead of going through a relay service

When you call Decker's Flowers or Kath's Creation directly, you are speaking with someone who knows what is currently available in their own cooler, not a call center representative reading from a national list of stock photos. Relay services and large online flower sites take your order and your payment, then forward a stripped-down version of it to whatever local shop is willing to fulfill it for the smallest cut of the price, which is often a shop far outside the town you actually live in. The arrangement that arrives may bear little resemblance to what was pictured, and the local shop that actually made it never sees your original instructions or your budget in full.

Ordering direct means the person taking your order can tell you honestly whether a particular flower is in season, whether a same-day delivery window is realistic given the weather or the day of the week, and whether a substitution will actually look good rather than just fill space. It also means any special instructions about a gate code, a workplace front desk, or a specific delivery time actually reach the person driving the van. Paying a local shop directly keeps more of that money in the local economy rather than passing through a national booking platform that adds a markup for doing little more than answering a phone.

What to do when an order does not go as planned

Mistakes happen even with careful shops: a delivery arrives later than promised, a color substitution was not communicated ahead of time, or a card was misplaced. The first step is always a direct phone call to the shop that fulfilled the order, since a local florist that stands behind its own work is generally the fastest to make a correction, whether that means a redelivery, a partial refund, or a replacement arrangement. This is another advantage of ordering direct rather than through a third party, since a relay service adds an extra layer of communication that slows down any fix.

If a shop is unresponsive or unwilling to correct a genuine mistake, writing an honest, specific review afterward becomes useful to the next customer trying to make the same decision you were making. Describe what was ordered, what went wrong, and how the shop responded, without exaggeration in either direction. That kind of detailed, moderated feedback is what keeps a review section trustworthy and is exactly the sort of information this page relies on when it points customers toward a florist that is open, reachable, and willing to make things right.