Perzynski & Filar Florist

Need flowers, but don’t want to go get that same ol’ bouquet from Whole Foods?
This place is your destination. Don’t get freaked out by the doorbell. Just tell the friendly ladies who work there how much you want to pay for what occasion and they will work with you to make an awesome arrangement asap.
Local flowers, hooray!

You this company twice in the last 3 years for delivery into the complicated Johns Hopkins area. Both times they met my timed requests and provided great looking flowers. Will continue to use them in the future.

Look, here is the deal: they do good work, but don’t expect to be treated like a King or Queen. These folks have been around a while, and they are not going to pretend that your visit is the highlight of their day. Instead you, the customer, are going to need to act like an adult: figure out what you want, and ask for it. If you do that, you will be very pleased with the results. I walked in on the Friday before Easter (a fairly busy time) to get some flowers for my girlfriend, and got a beautiful, fairly priced arrangement within 20 minutes.

I decided to give them a try, since they were close to where I work. I called on Friday morning for a Friday afternoon or Saturday morning delivery. The person who answered the phone seemed very surprised that I wanted to order centerpieces — only 6 for that day or the next day — not a big deal. I totally felt like I was ordering flowers from a pizza parlor! I asked for «Spring colors» — purple, yellow, pink, orange. She asked me what kind of flowers I wanted — «Daisies and Carnations?» she asked. I said for $ 30, I would like something nicer. She asked me what I wanted, instead of offering me suggestions. She asked me if they all had to match. Really? Whatever. When they arrived, they were white and red — looked more like Christmas time arrangements than spring time. Next time I find another florist.

This is probably the best florist in Baltimore. I mean, I haven’t tried them all so that may be slightly hyperbolic. I do, however, do dumb shit around the house from time to time, thus creating the need to send apology flowers to my lady friend. P & F always come through in a pinch.
My lady friend is always very impressed that I am able to pick out such beautiful arrangements. Here’s the thing, I don’t. I just call them up and I say, «Hey, it’s ‘The Prophecy’. I did that thing again where I left the toilet seat up but this time I also drank a bunch of whiskey, accidentally locked myself out of the house at 4 am, and broke the window and her favorite picture frame as I was trying to get back in. So, I have $ 50 to spend and I need something that looks really awesome!»
Then, they say, «We got it.»
Then I give them some of my treasure, and about 3 – 5 hours later these vases filled with beautiful flowers show up to my lady friend’s place of business and she doesn’t hate me anymore.
The flowers are always fresh and stay looking alive for usually a couple weeks after I order them. Despite what others have said I have always found the employees to be overly friendly and helpful.
Rock and roll.

I have been getting flowers for all occasions from this florist for years, well over twenty years… and have always had pleasant service and excellent flower arrangements.
I did stray a couple times, using proflowers and a few other deals from advertising but I always return because the flowers are so much better from this florist. I will continue to get all of our flowers from here. Thank you, Lombard Hardware 410−276−1294

Unfortunately, my first, and only, visit was an unsuccessful attempt to make a purchase. The flowers I was planning to buy were below their credit card minimum. The woman at the counter seemed flummoxed, so I left. If a coffee shop will let me charge a $ 4 cappuccino, why do retailers have these customer-​hostile minimums?

I have never ordered flowers from Perzynski & Filar but have received flowers from here on several occasions and I’m impressed every time. The first time the shop was randomly selected because it’s near my office — a dozen roses in a tall square vase with rocks on the bottom that was the talk among everyone I knew for weeks, the second was the flowers that were on the table the night my husband proposed (we still have the fun beady-​type things that were part of the arrangement) and again a few weeks ago, my husband called on short notice and picked up the biggest, most beautiful arrangement of flowers I’ve ever seen. Not only are they beautiful, the flowers last longer than any I’ve ever received before. My husband has talked about the woman who answers the phone and was disappointed she wasn’t there the day he stopped in.

I placed an order last Thursday for flowers to be delivered to my boyfriend’s office for our anniversary. Due to my browser’s auto-​fill option my home address ended up in the company name field. I called immediately to correct — they were very abrupt and borderline rude with me, but I was assured the change had been made. Fast forward to today and the flowers have been delivered to my apartment building, NOT his office. I called to discuss the matter and I was treated extremely rudely; the woman all but said that it was my fault. Her parting words? «Well that’s how it is.» I will not be ordering from them again.

I was hesitant to use them, given 2 poor customer service reviews and having very little patience for that, but I thought I would give a call and see.
I live in California and my parents are in Baltimore and I wanted a centerpiece for their Christmas dinner table. I found many options on their website and called with what I had in mind– and it was a good $ 10 less for what I found on 1800flowers (whom I will not deal with again– it is too convoluted to use their online site to order and overseas operators were no help)
Called up and the woman who answered was not unpleasant, not jumping with A+ customer service joy and it was Dec 23. I told her what I wanted and she let me know that they were out of the 3″ pillar candles they showed and would I be ok with a substitute of 2 tapers? I was.
Took the order and assured me it would be delivered on Dec 24.
And that, they delivered and my mom was over the moon happy and they had been able to provide a special 3″ taper candle after all. She was also impressed with the container it came in, which given the arrangement, did not require anything special, since you did not see it.
My mom is keep this card and plans to use them again.
So will I.
The reason for 4 stars– they did not go above and beyond what was expected, but not disappointing at all.

I thought my experience was maybe an isolated one, but after reading Jinah’s… here’s my Perzynski & Filar review.
Called PF on a lazy Thursday afternoon to order flowers for delivery. The person who answered was rude, impolite and inpatient. I said I was going to try someone else and she quickly agreed. At least she did that part right. If you’re too busy for my money, then I’m too busy to give it to you.

Teleflora-​certified, but cheaper than teleflora. Their online ordering service is very convenient since I live on the west coast. I chose this place to send my sister birthday flowers because of reviews that said the staff was friendly. I placed an online order 10 days in advance, but decided to change the delivery address 3 days before delivery. So I called the store and the second I started talking to the lady, she was super rude! She acted as though I was asking for something ridiculous and that I was ruining her day. Not sure that I would return here because I can’t stand bad service. Hopefully the flowers will still be fresh and beautiful.

When my friend moved from NYC to Baltimore last year, I wanted to send her some kind of housewarming gift. I decided on a potted plant, hoping that she would think that having something to water would be fun and nice to look at (rather than something that might just break or get lost). (Of course, you could always end up killing the plant and feeling worse than if you’d broken or lost something, but it hasn’t come to that… yet.)
I came across this place after searching on the internet, and it is right around the corner from where she lives. Between a neighborhood shop in a city I wasn’t familiar with and something like 1−800-flowers, which I’ve used before to pretty good results, I ended up taking a chance on the neighborhood place. It was totally worth it. I was able to order online (
) in the morning, and she got the plant barely an hour later. They must have just walked it over, which is what I had hoped for. The plant was in great shape, and now lives on a sunny windowsill.