No. 031 · Lenten rose
Helleborus orientalis
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Owen's first love. Sear the stems or they sulk.
Est. 2018 · A flower studio in Stonington Borough, Connecticut
Wild at the edges,
perfect at the heart.
Halyard is Owen Calloway and Teo Marchetti, a florist and a set designer who married on the town dock and opened in an old sail loft on Water Street. Weekly flowers for houses along the shoreline, and weddings from Watch Hill to Old Lyme.
Owen and Teo, Thursday, 6:40
No. 214 · Friday
hellebore, fritillaria, jasmine, one clematis being difficult
41.3359° N · 71.9068° W
01 · Arrangements
This Friday's flowers,
built by you.
Choose a palette, a size and how often. We do the rest on Thursday morning, and it lands on your table by Friday at noon.
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Palettes, not promises: the field and the Monday auction decide the exact stems. Free delivery on Fridays to the Borough, Mystic, Noank and Watch Hill. Old Lyme, Westerly and Groton $25.
02 · The stem index
We press one
of everything.
Every stem that comes through the door gets pressed, labelled and filed in the flat drawers by the window. Four from the archive, and the months to ask for them.
Not one of these is in season this week. That's what the archive is for.
No. 087 · Poppy anemone
Anemone coronaria
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Opens and closes with the light, like it's thinking.
No. 112 · Sweet pea
Lathyrus odoratus
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Teo's. Grown on the fence at the field. Smells like June.
No. 140 · Snake's head
Fritillaria meleagris
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Checkered, nodding, ten days a year. Worth it.
You are here: October. In the field now: the last dahlias, cosmos, rose hips and crabapple.
03 · The cooler
What's behind
the glass this week.
Friday, 23 October
In the cooler
- Café au Lait dahlias, the last of the field60
- White garden roses, for Saturday in Watch Hill120
- Copper beech, cut Wednesday3 buckets
- Black calla40
- Rose hips and crabappleplenty
Walk in Wednesday to Saturday. Bring your own jar and we'll fill it, from $40.
04 · Weddings and long tables
Twenty weddings
a year, by the water.
We keep the number small so the two of us are there for every one, from the first walk through the venue to the last candle.
The week of, by the hour
Six months out
We walk the venue with you, then a palette meeting at the studio with real stems in real light.
Tuesday
The imported stems arrive and rest in the cooler for three days to open properly.
Thursday, 5:00
Cutting in our field in North Stonington, before the sun gets to it.
Friday
Building, all day, with the doors open to Water Street.
Saturday, 7:00
The van loads. Owen drives. Installation starts the minute the tent is up.
Saturday, 23:30
We strike, and the table flowers go home with your guests in kraft paper.
Saturdays, May to October
from $15,000
Flowers for ceremony and reception
Off-season and weekdays
from $8,500
November to April, Sunday to Friday
Dinners and parties
from $2,500
Long tables, showers, birthdays
Owen & Teo, the loft, 2025
05 · The studio
A florist and
a set designer.
Owen grew up on a dairy farm in Litchfield County and knows exactly how early five in the morning is. Teo spent eleven years building sets for theater in New York and still lights every table like a stage.
They met at a friend's wedding in Mystic in 2014, where Owen was doing the flowers, married on the Stonington town dock in 2019, and grow about a third of what they use on two acres in North Stonington. The rest comes from small farms and the Monday auction.
"We like a flower that looks like it's about to leave the vase."
The field, North Stonington. Last dahlias before the frost.
"They did our table in Watch Hill and people were still talking about the flowers at Thanksgiving."
"Every Friday at ten, a jar of whatever is perfect. I have stopped trying to guess."
"Teo looked at the tent for four minutes and redesigned the whole night. He was right."
The shop
41 Water Street
Stonington Borough, Connecticut 06378
Wednesday to Saturday, 9 to 5
Sunday, 10 to 2
06 · Visit and inquire
Tell us
what it's for.
Received
Water St.
Water St.
Note from the studio
Got it, thank you.
One of us will write back within two days about {{reasonLine}}, usually from the cooler. O and T