Get Well flowers in Irvine

A get-well arrangement is the only kind of flower order that can be refused at the door, and in Irvine it is usually refused for one of three reasons: lilies, soil, or scent. The city's medical corridor is concentrated on the Sand Canyon and Alton side of 92618 — Hoag Hospital Irvine at 16200 Sand Canyon Avenue, Hoag Orthopedic Institute next to it on the same street, Kaiser Permanente Irvine Medical Center, and City of Hope Orange County's cancer campus near the Great Park — and the oncology, transplant and critical-care units in that corridor run the strictest floral policies in the county. Lily pollen is the standard exclusion because it stains, drops and bothers patients on oxygen. Potted plants are commonly barred from oncology, bone-marrow-transplant and other protective-isolation units because damp soil carries fungal spores that are dangerous to a neutropenic patient. Heavily scented stems — stargazer, some hyacinth, strong freesia, tuberose — get turned away on floors where patients are nauseated from chemotherapy. Latex balloons are banned nearly everywhere for allergy reasons; mylar is usually fine. None of this is a reason to skip flowers. It is a reason to tell the florist which hospital and which unit, so the design is built to pass.