Flowers help Wareham native escape corporate world

Mar 19, 2013

Flowers come by their resplendent beauty naturally, but Mother Nature won't arrange a bouquet for your wedding or graduation.

Tim Trinciante, owner of Tim's Flower Shop, will.

Trinciante, a Taunton resident who grew up in Wareham, recently moved the year-old business to 191 Main Street from Tyler Avenue in East Wareham. He spent years working in the corporate world before deciding to go into business for himself.

"I was sick of the corporate world, making money for someone else," said Trinciante. "One day I was in a flower shop, and I just thought, 'What can I do with this? What can I do with flowers to make people happy?'"

So far, his venture into entrepreneurship has helped him accomplish that goal.

"When you hand someone flowers you get that 'instant,'" when their faces light up and he can see firsthand the appreciation for the fruits of his labor.

"The art is in making it pretty," Trinciante explains. "Flowers are already pretty," so the art is in the arrangement.

To hone his skills, Trinciante attended Rittners School of Floral Design in Boston.

"It's like the Harvard of flower schools," he said. He learned how to do a wide array of arrangements, but noted that there's also room for creativity.

"Once you learn the technique, you can do anything," from highly-stylized arrangements to simple bouquets to brighten up a home or business, Trinciante explained.

Trinciante said he wasn't getting as much traffic as he would have liked at his old location, but since moving the store to Main Street, business is booming.

"My main goal was to move here and have more foot traffic," he said, noting that the presence of some of the other businesses in the building have helped to bolster sales.

"During the wedding season, all the women are going tanning" at the salon across the hall and sometimes pop in to discuss wedding arrangements, Trinciante said.

One of his most popular items is his $15 dozen wrapped roses, and Trinciante says there is a reoccurring theme among the customers who purchase them: "My girlfriend got mad and I need a dozen roses!"

While he can't guarantee it'll get customers a ticket out of the doghouse, it certainly won't hurt.

Tim's Flower Shop is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, visit Timsflowershop.com, or "like" the shop on Facebook.