bayport flower houses

What bayport flower houses does

Bayport Flower Houses is a privately held, family-owned retail business that has operated continuously since 1932 from a single location at 940 Montauk Highway in Bayport, New York. Founded by Maria and Paul Auwaerter as a small greenhouse carnation farm, the company is now led by third and fourth-generation family members. It operates three integrated service lines: a full-service florist, a garden center, and a landscape design and installation practice, all delivered through one physical storefront on Long Island.

The florist division sells designer-crafted fresh arrangements for occasions including sympathy, birthdays, holidays, and weddings, with a dedicated online ordering portal at bayportflower.net supporting same-day local delivery. The garden center retails plants (annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and tropicals), garden décor, tools, soils, fertilizers, and seasonal merchandise, including a proprietary "Bayport's Best" line of greenhouse-grown blooms and premium arrangements. Landscape services provide design and installation for residential customers, while wedding floral design is offered through custom consultations. Supplementary offerings include seasonal workshops and community events, gift cards, a Winter Storage Program, FTD-network sympathy arrangements, and a Plant Finder database.

The business generates revenue through one-time retail purchases across florist and garden center categories, professional service fees for landscaping and weddings, and workshop/event registration. The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer at the Bayport storefront with same-day local delivery supplemented by an online ordering channel and digital marketing via social media, an email newsletter (Constant Contact), and a Garden Tips blog. The company has no institutional investors, no disclosed funding, and no parent organization.

Name

bayport flower houses

Legal name

Bayport Flower Houses, Inc.

Website

https://bayportflower.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1932

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bayport Flower Houses is a family-owned retail florist, garden center, and landscape design service in Bayport, New York, founded in 1932 and now in its fourth generation. It serves Long Island consumers with fresh floral arrangements, plants, wedding florals, and landscaping under a single storefront.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Florist & Garden Center

NAICS

Florists (45931), Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers (444240)

SIC

Retail-Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply (5200)

akta.pro primary industry

Plants, Seeds & Nursery Retail (Garden Centers) (CRAIAIAB)

Keywords

• Retail florist services
• Garden center retail
• Landscape design services
• Flower delivery services
• Custom floral arrangements

Headquarters

HQ city

Bayport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Florist Arrangements & Fresh Flowers: Sale of fresh cut flower arrangements, seasonal bouquets, and designer floral pieces for occasions including birthdays, holidays, sympathy, and celebrations. Orders placed through the official florist store.
2. Garden Center Products: Sale of plants (perennials, trees, shrubs, annuals, tropical/indoor plants), garden décor, containers, garden art, supplies including soils, fertilizers, tools, and seasonal items.
3. Wedding Floral Services: Custom bridal bouquets, ceremony florals, centerpieces, and wedding arrangements. Planning consultations for couples to design personalized wedding floral pieces.
4. Gift Cards: Sale of Bayport Flower Houses gift cards for gifting purposes.
5. Landscape Services: Landscaping design and installation services offered through the landscape division.
6. Workshops & Events: Seasonal workshops and community events with registration fees.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bayport Flower Houses is a family-owned retail florist and garden center selling fresh-cut flowers, custom floral arrangements, potted plants, and garden/nursery supplies from a single location in Bayport, New York. The business also provides landscaping services and same-day local flower delivery, with online ordering available through bayportflower.net.

Product overview

Bayport Flower Houses operates as a multi-service retail garden destination combining a full-service florist, garden center, and landscaping service. The core offerings include: (1) Florist services offering fresh, designer-crafted floral arrangements for occasions ranging from everyday gifting to weddings and sympathy, sold through their bayportflower.net online store; (2) Garden Center providing plants, décor, supplies, and seasonal items including their proprietary Bayport's Best homegrown annuals; (3) Landscape design and installation services; and (4) Wedding floral design. Supporting offerings include a Plant Finder database, seasonal workshops, gift cards, FTD® sympathy arrangements, and a Winter Storage Program. The business was founded in the early 1930s as a flower farm and remains family-owned, now in its third and fourth generations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fresh-cut flowers and custom floral arrangements

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FTD (Florists' Transnational Delivery Association)minorOthersBayport Flower Houses offers FTD-branded floral products including the FTD® Sunlit Memories™ Standing Spray for sympathy and memorial occasions. This indicates membership in the FTD network, allowing access to FTD's brand-name products and designs for resale.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ProFlowers: Online floral and plant retailer offering fresh-cut flowers, plants, and gift baskets with national delivery. Comparable to Bayport's florist and online-ordering operations because it addresses the same online floral gifting customer and competes for direct-to-consumer floral occasions.
• Teleflora: Wire-service floral network that connects local member florists to handle hand-delivered orders across the U.S. Directly comparable because it operates the same florist-network model and competes for the same local florist membership and consumer floral occasions as Bayport.
• FTD Companies: Florists' Transnational Delivery network connecting local florists for wire-service orders and offering branded floral products. Bayport is already an FTD member selling FTD-branded arrangements, making FTD both a partner and a structural competitor that aggregates local florist demand nationally.
• Local independent florists (Long Island): The broad cohort of independent local florists operating across Long Island (e.g., Sayville Florist, Patchogue Florist) that share Bayport's service area, product mix, and same-day local delivery model. They are the most direct same-market competitors for wedding, sympathy, and everyday gifting orders.
• Armstrong Garden Centers: Multi-location California-based garden center chain offering plants, garden supplies, and landscape services. Comparable as a scaled, brand-driven garden center operator with a similar mix of retail plants, supplies, and landscaping services to Bayport's combined offering.
• Pike Nurseries: Regional retail garden center chain selling plants, garden supplies, and seasonal decor with expert horticultural staff. Directly comparable to Bayport's garden center vertical — both sell live plants, supplies, and seasonal goods to local gardening customers with in-store expert guidance.

Emerging players

• Bloomscape: Online direct-to-consumer plant retailer shipping potted houseplants and planters with care guidance. Comparable to Bayport's "Plant Gifts" and indoor/tropical plant offerings, and a representative online-native competitor in the live-plant retail space.
• The Bouqs Co. Online direct-to-consumer floral delivery company sourcing flowers farm-to-door and shipping arrangements nationwide. Comparable because it addresses the same fresh-flower gifting customer with an online-first, design-forward brand that competes for share of online floral spend that Bayport's e-commerce site also targets.

Broad incumbents

• 1-800-Flowers.com: National online floral and gift retailer offering fresh flower arrangements, plants, and gift delivery across the U.S. Directly comparable because it sells the same core product (fresh-cut floral arrangements) that Bayport Flower Houses designs and delivers, competing for the same gifting and occasion-based customer occasions including sympathy, birthdays, and holidays.
• Home Depot Garden Center: Big-box home improvement retailer with extensive in-store and online garden center assortments of plants, soils, tools, and seasonal goods. Comparable as the dominant mass-market alternative for the garden-supply portion of Bayport's business, competing on price, convenience, and assortment breadth.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BayportFlower
• Facebookfacebook.com/BayportFlowerHouses
• Instagraminstagram.com/bayportflowerhousesinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bayport-flower-houses-inc.

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Investors

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