Tiger Lily Floral

Debbie Hottensen and Four Decades of Tiger Lily Floral

Debbie Hottensen founded Tiger Lily Floral in 1986, when Las Vegas was still a mid-sized Western city with fewer than half a million residents in the valley. Nearly four decades later, Tiger Lily is one of the oldest continuously operating family-owned businesses in Las Vegas and one of a shrinking number of independent florists that have survived the consolidation of the floral industry by national wire services and online aggregators. Hottensen built the business on event work — weddings, corporate functions, and the convention trade that flows through Las Vegas year-round — while maintaining a full everyday retail operation for birthdays, anniversaries, sympathy arrangements, and holidays. Tiger Lily is woman-owned and family-operated, and it has stayed that way through every expansion.

The business runs two retail locations: Downtown Summerlin at 2115 Festival Plaza Drive and Henderson at 10271 South Eastern Avenue. Both shops maintain walk-in coolers stocked with ready-to-go arrangements, and both handle custom orders for events of any scale. Tiger Lily has been voted “Best Florist” in the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s annual Best of Las Vegas readers’ poll repeatedly over the years, a distinction that reflects consistent neighborhood loyalty rather than a single standout year. The company offers same-day delivery across the entire Las Vegas Valley, a logistical capability that requires its own fleet and route planning in a metro area that stretches forty miles from Centennial Hills to Henderson.

Tiger Lily Floral in the Las Vegas Valley

Las Vegas consumes flowers at a volume that few American cities can match — between the Strip’s hotel lobbies, convention center installations, and a wedding industry that processes tens of thousands of ceremonies per year, the demand for professional floral work is constant. Tiger Lily has served that demand from both the retail and event sides since the Reagan administration. After the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in October 2017, Tiger Lily donated arrangements to first responders and memorials across the valley, an act that reflected the shop’s deep roots in the community it has served for nearly forty years. For Las Vegas residents who want their flowers sourced, arranged, and delivered by a local family rather than a fulfillment warehouse, Tiger Lily Floral remains the standard.

Owner

Debbie Hottensen

Founded

1986

Locations

2115 Festival Plaza Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89135 (Summerlin) · 10271 S Eastern Ave, Henderson, NV 89052

Phone

(702) 737-7077

Website

tigerlily.com