Hatfield, Pretoria
Fifty years of flowers, from one shop in Hatfield.
Our story
Eros Florist has been part of Pretoria’s landscape since the 1950s. On 1 December 1974, Beatrice Archer’s late parents bought the shop — then in Hatfield Galleries, near “Japies”, as many old University of Pretoria students will remember. Beatrice spent her school holidays helping behind the counter and joined her mother full-time in 1981.
“Eros” is the Greek word for love. Fifty years on it is still a family business: a second shop opened in Hatfield Plaza in 1988, Beatrice’s husband Ken joined in the late 1990s, and in October 2017 we took The Flower Bucket and its floral and delivery team under our wing. We have been part of Interflora since February 1975.
We are a working studio, not a warehouse. Every arrangement is cut, conditioned and tied by hand on the morning it goes out. Most of our work is for people marking something — a birthday, a new baby, an apology, a funeral — and we would rather talk to you than have you guess.
1974
Family-owned in Hatfield since
13h00
Same-day delivery cut-off (11h00 on Saturdays)
13×
Pretoria News Readers’ Choice winner
How we work
What you can expect
Made on the day
Nothing sits in a fridge waiting for an order. We arrange in the morning for that day's deliveries, which is why the cut-off matters.
Seasonal, not scripted
We buy what is good that week. Your arrangement will match the photograph in shape and palette, with the best stems we can get.
A person on the phone
Funerals, corporate standing orders, weddings and anything unusual — call us on +27 12 430 2203 and we will build it with you.
