De La Flor Gardens

De La Flor Gardens has operated at 10781 Stirling Road in Cooper City’s Springtree Country Club Plaza since 1986, making it one of the older continuously run small retail operations in the city. The business describes itself as family owned, and its public facing leadership includes Deborah De La Flor, whom the company’s own materials describe as one of America’s premier floral artists who gives design demonstrations at industry events, a detail that goes beyond typical marketing language for a neighborhood flower shop and points to a business with real standing in the floral trade beyond South Florida.

What sets De La Flor Gardens apart from a purely delivery focused florist is the garden center itself. Alongside cut flower arrangements, the Stirling Road location sells nursery plants and landscape material, and offers landscape design and installation services, meaning a customer can walk in for a sympathy arrangement one day and come back the next to pick out a tree or shrub for the yard. That combination, walk in retail florist paired with a working nursery, is a specific and fairly old fashioned business model that has mostly disappeared from South Florida in favor of either pure delivery florists or big box garden centers, which makes a surviving example worth noting.

The shop does also handle same day flower delivery, with a posted delivery fee around 18 dollars, and takes online and phone orders around the clock through an e-commerce presence, and larger wedding and event floral work is handled under a separate, related site rather than through the retail storefront directly. That division, walk in retail and nursery on one side, wedding and event coordination on another, is a useful distinction for anyone trying to categorize the business: the Stirling Road location itself functions as a genuine retail shop rather than purely a delivery dispatch point.

Posted retail hours run Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the shop closed Sundays. Both Yellow Pages and Superpages confirm the Stirling Road address and the (954) 434-1717 phone number, and an older Yellow Pages listing under the name Flowers From the Rain Florist, at the identical address and sharing the same phone number, redirects directly to the De La Flor Gardens website, confirming that the two listings represent one business rather than two separate florists sharing a plaza. The shop holds FTD affiliation and reports customer ratings above 4.5 stars across more than 600 reviews on its floral marketplace profile, a figure that comes from the company’s own reporting rather than an independently audited source, but which is consistent with a shop that has built a four decade reputation in the same location.