RECOMMENDED: How to celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day in Chicago<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Co-founders Liz Topp and Sin\u00e9ad Cleary launched Nerine to celebrate the meeting point of fresh blooms and sculptural artistry. Every bouquet captures a fleeting seasonal mood and an unmistakable creative point of view\u2014the floral equivalent of walking into a room and immediately trusting the host\u2019s taste in music. Since opening their physical shop on Division Street in early 2025, they\u2019ve welcomed flower lovers into their world with curated arrangements and hands-on workshops that make you briefly consider a career change.<\/p>\n In determining our rankings, we weighed floral adventurousness and shop ambiance against a more elusive metric: the thrill of discovering you\u2019ve walked into a place that also sells dangerously covetable home goods (hello, magnetic bud vase<\/a>), delightfully niche offerings like \u201cthe elopement special\u201d and merch<\/a> you didn\u2019t come for but will absolutely leave with.<\/p>\n The next time you\u2019re hunting for a celebratory bouquet\u2014whether it\u2019s for a milestone moment or simply because Thursday felt unbearably long\u2014shop local at Nerine or explore the other essential spots on our list of Chicago\u2019s 24 best florists<\/a>. Oh, and just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, Nerine is offering a limited-edition bouquet<\/a>: their take on lush, romantic but decidedly contemporary romance. It features their namesake nerine lilies alongside soft, sculptural ingredients like roses, sweet pea, calla lilies and anthurium, for $75\u2014proof that love can, in fact, be arranged in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Time Out, we refresh our rankings often, because loving Chicago doesn\u2019t mean staying loyal to the same…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":561573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[60843,960,5386,1818,60844,2107],"class_list":["post-561572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-categories-shopping","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news-shopping-style","tag-shopping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116002657115781573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.webp.webp\")
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