For the rest of the year, the hard part is buildings rather than calendars. Beaverton is a city of apartments as much as houses — the corridors along SW Murray Boulevard, SW Allen Boulevard, SW 158th Avenue and Cedar Hills Boulevard, the blocks around The Round and Beaverton Central, and the dense complexes across Aloha in 97006 and 97078 all take romance deliveries every week. Those buildings have locked lobbies, call boxes that only ring a phone nobody answers at work, and package rooms that are fine for cardboard and useless for water. A recipient's mobile number is worth more than any gate code, and an apartment number is not optional — a leasing office will not accept a bouquet addressed to a first name and a building color. On the single-family side, from Cedar Mill and Bethany down through the West Slope, Garden Home, Murray Hill, Sexton Mountain and Progress Ridge, the constraint is rain rather than access: from October into May, name the covered spot in the delivery note, because an uncovered step in a Tualatin Valley downpour ruins wrapped flowers in minutes.
Two situations come up here constantly and deserve straight answers. The first is the proposal. The scenery is genuinely good — Cooper Mountain Nature Park on Beaverton's own hilltop looks out over the Tualatin Valley, Tualatin Hills Nature Park has 222 acres of trail with a MAX station at its edge, and over the ridge in Washington Park sit the International Rose Test Garden, the Portland Japanese Garden and Pittock Mansion, which is the West Hills viewpoint half this metro has proposed at. Flowers cannot be delivered to any of them. We deliver to addresses where a person can sign, not to a bench at golden hour, so the way this actually works is a shop pickup on your way out — Westside Florist at 4425 SW 109th Avenue in 97005 or Hill Florist at 111 SE 3rd Avenue in Hillsboro — or a delivery to the house or hotel room for afterward. The second is long distance. A lot of people in this town moved here for a job at one of the campuses and left someone behind, and the most common failure in those orders is an address half-remembered from one visit. Confirm the apartment number before you order, not after the driver is standing at a call box.