Kuhn Flowers

Kuhn Flowers has been arranging flowers in Jacksonville since 1947, when Bob Kuhn opened the original shop on Duval Street. According to the company’s own history, Bob met his future wife five years later at a florist convention in Miami; she came to work for him and they married the following year, a nice bit of florist trivia for a business that has spent nearly eight decades in the wedding and celebration business. The shop moved to its current Beach Boulevard location in 1957, was sold in 1984 and changed hands a few times over the following decades before Marty McCall and his wife Michelle Morgan bought it in 2015. They kept the Kuhn Flowers name rather than rebrand, and in fall 2020 they completed a major refit of the Beach Boulevard store.

The Jacksonville flagship at 3802 Beach Blvd (San Marco) is a genuine design studio, not just a retail counter: arrangements are handcrafted on site and delivered locally in climate controlled vehicles rather than shipped boxed, which matters in North Florida’s heat and humidity. Orders placed before 2pm get same day delivery at no extra charge, and the shop has standing delivery relationships with hospitals including Baptist Medical Center and Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, as well as funeral homes throughout Duval County, on top of the usual birthdays, sympathy and just because orders.

Kuhn also does more than counter sales. The shop offers floral design classes, corporate account service, holiday design work and full bridal packages with in person consultations, and the gift side of the store carries candles, wind chimes and self care items alongside the flowers. Locally, Kuhn Flowers is known for its holiday window displays: the shop puts together elaborate, animated presentations each season that reportedly draw busloads of school children and senior groups just to see them, a small tradition that has outlasted several changes of ownership.

Today the business operates as a family owned florist with the Beach Boulevard flagship, a second location in Ponte Vedra Beach, and a boutique called Cattleya European Floral in Historic Avondale. The Jacksonville store is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 6pm and Saturday from 8am to 4pm, closed Sundays; the Ponte Vedra store keeps slightly later weekday hours. For anyone in San Marco or the surrounding neighborhoods who wants an arrangement that was actually built in the shop rather than assembled from a wire order, or who needs a same day delivery before a hospital visit or funeral, it’s worth calling ahead at 904-398-8601.