Bordertown Flowers & Frills (Your Best Floral Friend) - "Home of Jackie's Artisian Corner and Fort B Flowers " proudly serving Amherst and the surrounding areas.
Bordertown Flowers and Frills or as we call it (BFF) located at 60 South Albion Street, is Amherst's newest privately owned floral business operating on what many local people refer to as the Golden Mile of Amherst. Bordertown Flowers and Frills is a full service floral center capable of creating beautiful floral designs for all occasions as well as sending or receiving your floral orders as needed.
Besides specific floral designs BFF also makes fruit, snack, and gourmet gift baskets upon demand. We will deliver your special order in our company vehicle to the Amherst and surrounding areas. BFF also operates a year round well stocked gift shop as well as being home to the one and only "Jackie's Artisan Corner". Jackie's Artisan's Corner currently has over 20 local artisans displaying their special and unique creations at BFF.
We have such artisan creations as paintings, hand knit hats and accessories, jewelry, personally designed hand etched glass, woodworking, wood carvings, hand crafted wood rocking horses, cards, Nova Scotia tartan souvenirs, books by local authors, hand crafted & designed suncatchers, driftwood/beach glass creations and much more.
Cathy White, certified designer and floral business owner has over 11 years experience in the direct floral design industry along with another 20 years prior as an avid gardener maintaining several large private gardens full of annuals, perennials and flowering shrubs. When you combine Cathy's previous floral experience with her young energetic & creative designer; Brianna Voss and the experienced designer & Manager, Miranda Wolfe you have an extremely creative and dynamic team that are eager to serve you and make your floral or gift buying experience with BFF very satisfying. The BFF team perfectly balances the traditional floral design principals and practices, all the while, being very comfortable with the new modern and contemporary styling's that young designers with creative minds and a "can do" attitude bring to a business.
Call us at 902-667-3811 and let Cathy, Brianna or Miranda offer you fresh new ideas on how to express your desired sentiment and feeling with that perfect floral arrangement, giftware, gift basket or hand made creation for that special someone on your list. Call today and the friendly staff of BFF will do their utmost to make sure you will not be disappointed.
Store Hours:
Our shop is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.
We are closed on Sundays.
To help assure on-time delivery during the busy holiday season, place your order at least 1 day prior to the following major holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Administrative Professionals Week, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.
Our shop will always be closed on the following holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Heritage Day (third Monday in February), Easter, Memorial Day, Father's Day, and Labor Day.
Fort B Flowers is an important part of our company and we take great pride in the fact that it is still part of our business along with Jackie's Artisan Corner. Fort B Flowers was the oldest flower business in Amherst and it continues to be so here in our operation. It is very important to us that we continue to celebrate the many years of business they supplied to Amherst and surrounding area.
Our shop serves the following areas: Amherst, Joggins, Northport, Oxford, Southampton & Springhill and surrounding smaller communities.
We also serve the Sackville, New Brunswick area and surrounding areas close to there.
| We also deliver to the following facilities | |
| AH Brown Funeral Service | Campbell's Funeral Home |
| Centennial Villa Inc | Cole's Family Care Home |
| Extra-Mural Program | Jones Family Funeral Centre and Cremation Services |
| Gables Lodge Ltd | Heritage Meadows Retirement |
| Pedersen's Small Retirement | Sackville Memorial Hospital |
| United Church Home For Senior | Victoria Manor |
| White Birches Retirement Rsdnc |
If you have any questions or need more information, please contact us by e-mail at infobffamherst@gmail.com or call us directly at (902) 667-3811. We're always here to serve you and make your flower-sending experience a pleasure.
Bordertown Flowers & Frills
60 South Albion St
Amherst, NS B4H 2W5
We accept the following payment methods:
Visa
MasterCard
American Express
House Account & Electronic-transfers
A local delivery fee of 7.00 will be added to each order, for each address. (For deliveries outside our local delivery area, this fee may vary.)
Orders must be received before 3:00 p.m. in the recipient's time zone to assure same-day delivery. Orders received after that time will be delivered the following day.
We will do our best to accommodate deliveries at specific times of day, but we cannot guarantee it.
We are unable to make deliveries on Sundays. Deliveries requested on this day will be delivered the following business day.
Delivery of orders to rural route addresses or cemeteries cannot be guaranteed.
We will be happy to accept your international orders if you call our shop directly. We are unable to accept international orders over the Internet.
Occasionally, substitutions may be necessary to create your bouquet due to the availability of certain flowers in various parts of the country. Care is taken to maintain the style, theme and color scheme of the arrangement, using flowers of equal value. Additionally, the substitution of certain keepsake items may be necessary due to increased demand, especially during major holidays. In single-flower arrangements, such as an all rose bouquet, or orchids, we will make every attempt to match the flower type, but may substitute with another color.
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