About Gateway Florist, Inc.

Gateway Florist originally located in Waldorf Md has relocated to LaPlata Md. Owners Kent and Tina Cooksey relocated the shop to it's 130 acre family farm in order to expand it's business and services. Gateway Florist has offered regular delivery of all occasion arrangements, weddings, sympathy, get well etc for over 18years and will continue to offer that same quality products and services. However, we have been actively working to expand into a small working farm as well. Our hope is to offer locally (seasonal ) grown wildflowers, sunflowers and some produce. As this portion of our business is just beginning only time will tell how this first year will go. Special notices will be posted on this site when different local items become available. In addition to these new services we also offer a convienent cash a nd carry cooler inside Civista hospital's gift shop located on Garrett Ave in LaPlata Md.

Local delivery areas include all of the Waldorf and the surrounding Charles County area. We also service Mechanicsville in St. Mary's County - Maryland.

We do go outside of our delivery area for special events such as weddings and large party work.



Local Funeral Homes include: Huntt Funeral Home, Arehart Echols Funeral Home, Raymonds Funeral Home, Brinsfield Echols Funeral Home, Adams Funeral Home, Thorntons Funeral Home and Williams Funeral Home

Hospitals : Civista Medical Center

Although we no longer offer walk in service you can reach us by phone for delivery.
Monday - Friday 8:30am -5:00pm
Saturdays 8:30am-2:00pm
We are closed on Sundays

Beginning in October we will be providing the floral arrangements offered in the New Civista Medical Center Gift Shop. The opening is scheduled for Oct 15th, there will be a wide variety of fresh arrangements to choose from if you are interested in picking something up.

We offer 24 hour phone service and this full service web site.

To help guarantee delivery for holidays please place orders early at least 2 days prior to any major holiday ie: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines, Easter and Mothers Day.

We do have extended store hours during the holiday season they will be available by calling the store one week prior to the holiday.

Our shop is closed on the following Holidays: New Years Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and Dec 26th.

Any other unscheduled closings will be noted on the web site and phone at least 2 weeks prior to closing.

Gateway Florist provides a full variety of fresh flowers for all occasions and all design styles. Our fruit and gift baskets are outstanding and can be tailored to your specific needs. We offer a large variety of baskets such as fruit and gourmet, junk food, diebetic snack baskets, bath baskets, chocolate candy and cookie baskets, coffee and tea baskets, etc. If you have an idea we can probley make it into a basket.

We can combine any of our gift baskets with plants or flowers for that extra special gift. We have a full line of plush, balloons, candles and greeting cards.

Gateway Florist offers custom wedding design services and large party designs. Consultation appointments are required and are no charge.

We take great care with all our orders and sympathy arrangements are no exception. We can do a wide variety of pieces from standard funeral baskets to large showy standing sprays. We can even do some custom pieces.

Your orders are very important to us and we offer 100% satisfaction.

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact us by e-mail at gwflorist@comcast.net or call us directly at 1-800-235-6127, (301) 392-5630. We're always here to serve you and make your flowers sending experience a pleasure.

Gateway Florist Inc
Po Box 113
Bryantown, Md 20617

A delivery fee of $10.95 will be added to each order for each address.   We do try to accommodate time deliveries when possible,  if a special request is made and specified times are required we will charge a higher delivery fee.   No time deliveries will be promised on any holiday... we do make note of business and schools. 

Orders for the same day are guaranteed if placed by 2pm the same day with the exception of holidays.  If it is late in the day and you would like a delivery within our local area, give us a call we will try to accomodate you (but no promises).  Orders for Civista Medical Center can be placed up until 3pm for the same day delivery.

Procedures for delivery:

Because our area is growing and many of the street addresses are not on our maps.. we may need to call the recipients to get directions.  Also if the area of the delivery is rural we may call recipients to see if someone is home to receive flowers to avoid wasted trips.  Please make sure you include phone numbers to the recipients on your orders.

When making a delivery to a home if no one is home

•  we will try leaving the arrangement with a neighbor-- we tag the door to notify
•  we will leave the arrangement weather permitting in a safe place at the address
• we will tag the door for the recipient to contact us and a time will be set up for redelivery.