Blooms By The Beach

07/09/2025

07/08/2025

Cortez Stone Crab Festival 2025: After much thoughtful consideration, we have made the difficult decision not to host the Cortez Stone Crab Festival this year.

The aftermath of last year’s hurricanes brought significant challenges to our beloved historic village. Among the impacted was the Cortez Bait & Seafood office, which was flooded along with numerous other properties. In a community like Cortez, rich in heritage and protected as a historic district, permits, approvals, and construction projects are not only more complex but often take longer to complete.

Rather than rush forward with an event that deserves our full energy and attention, we have chosen instead to continue pouring our time, love, and resources into rebuilding and improving. Over the past nine months, our teams have been hard at work making long-overdue improvements to Cortez Kitchen, Swordfish Grill, Cortez Bait & Seafood, and N.E. Taylor Boatworks. Our owner, John, has not yet been able to return to his home, which was destroyed by floodwaters. This stands as a sobering reminder of just how deeply the storms impacted every level of our family-run operations.

This pause is not a goodbye. It is a recalibration. We are leaning into growth, resilience, and thoughtful progress, knowing that Cortez is on the cusp of inevitable changes as new development reaches our shores. Our goal is to preserve the heart and soul of commercial fishing in Cortez while evolving to meet what lies ahead.

The Cortez Stone Crab Festival has always been about honoring our hardworking stone crabbers, celebrating our commercial fishing roots, and gathering with our community. Sometimes, continuing that legacy starts by rebuilding the home front.

🎶 Stay tuned. This fall, we plan to introduce a "Mini Stone Crab Celebration" with live music and stone crab specials at both Cortez Kitchen and Swordfish Grill. Think small concert series, big flavor, and the same local love you have come to expect.

We thank you for your continued support, patience, and belief in what we are building, both literally and figuratively. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of the Cortez story.

-The Cortez Family of Businesses
Cortez Kitchen • Swordfish Grill & Tiki • Cortez Bait & Seafood • N.E. Taylor Boatworks

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day, Bloomies!!
We will be OPEN today and tomorrow, 7/4 and 7/5 from 9:30am - 12:00pm
Let us add some star spangled banner to your holiday weekend!! 🎆🇺🇸💐

07/03/2025

This weekend we celebrate our 6 year anniversary of our Grand Opening here on Anna Maria Island! We are constantly grateful, apreciative and humbled by the tremendous support, patronage and relationships we have built during this time! You all constantly remind us how much we are loved through repeatedly voting for us for “favorite florist” both locally and state wide, and whether we have delivered something special for you here on the island or all over Manatee and Sarasota counties, honorably supported your non-profit, designed your wedding or special event, each and every one of you helped make that happen! Our little shop apreciates your big hearts and can’t wait for the next 6 years as “Your Island Florist”
💗💐🙏

06/19/2025

Hey Bloomies!! Looking for something fun to do inside this summer and out of the heat?! Call us about our summer workshops! Workshops are hosted at one’s home, providing light snacks and beverages, while Blooms by the Beach provides all of the fresh product and supplies! Group sizes are 4-10 guests. Days and evenings available!
Call today for more information and to schedule your group! Prices range $60-$75 per person, depending on type of class.

Workshops available:
“Sip & Stems”
“Bow Making”

Call today! 941-778-2555

06/15/2025

Hey Bloomies!! I love being a florist! And I love doing beach weddings! And I love working with tropicals! Love bright colors too… today’s wedding was no exception… here’s a sneak peak of today’s bridal bouquet 💗💐

06/11/2025

Hey Bloomies!! So some other cool stuff that happened over the weekend Florida State Florists Association International FSFAI Converntion, was that I took my FSMD - Florida State Master Designer Certification test… and I passed!! 🙌🙌
A lot of learning, practicing, remembering, creating takes place to get here and feel so proud to have been able to do it my first try. A HUGE Blooms thank you to Michelle Morgan Bob Tucker ._party_planner and the rest of the testing committee for being awesome and providing fun product to work with and your tireless efforts to ensure we are all growing and becoming better designers! Now on to my AIFD certification next! … but probably next year 🤣💐💗

05/09/2025

Can’t be preppared for a fantastic Mother’s Day, without the always beautiful greens, from our beautiful friends !!
Can’t wait to see you guys in a few weeks!

05/08/2025