Palmer Kelley Designs and Gifts

Palmer Kelley is a unique shop that a building entrance with a Wild Birds Unlimited store at this location. I am very familiar with WBU, but had never been in Palmer Kelley. The shop itself is fairly small and only has a few select «cash and carry» flowers, some interesting planters, glass décor items and green plants — okay that’s not everything, but that’s all I can remember. I noticed a woman approach me from a door near the back of the store and quickly realized that most of the activity in this shop probably takes place behind the scenes. I also noted a private consultation room — so, I would say that while PK has some retail, it is more of a design house for events and such.
I did find a very cool looking little item on one display table… it had five cut-​glass bottles of one size and a sixth about half the size of the other five all secured in a pewter caddy — kind of ornate, but very interesting looking. I was actually thinking of buying it for storing some type of fragrance products — aromatherapy bath oils or something similar — but I couldn’t figure out what I would do with the smallest bottle. That conundrum led me to ask what the item was intended for in the first place and nobody on staff seemed to know… I decided to leave it where it sat because I wasn’t really «sold» on how it might be used.
I like the shop well enough and the staff was certainly friendly, but I had the distinct feeling that I was interrupting them because they all kept scrambling to and fro the back room. I wasn’t miffed, but I did feel like an intrusion… perhaps another time. I did like the stem selection here: snapdragons, spicy-​scented stock, astilbe, etc…