What do people send when there is no occasion?
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Something small, warm and unmistakably chosen. On the live shelf today, Teleflora's Welcome Beautiful Bouquet is the new-apartment and thank-you piece, Sugar Maples Flower Arrangement and Berries And Spice Bouquet are the ordinary-Tuesday sends, Teleflora's Fall For Copper Centerpiece is the one that stands low on a table rather than needing a vase, and Teleflora's Sky Glass Jade Plant is for the person who loves plants and forgets to water them. Gardenia and Grace Bouquet is the scented option and belongs in a home rather than an open-plan office. Spend the effort on the card instead of the upgrade: two specific sentences will be remembered long after the stems are gone.
What does a just-because bouquet cost here?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $32.49. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
Nobody will be home in the afternoon. What happens to the flowers?
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Tell us that before we dispatch and it stops being a problem. For a single-family address in Rancho Park, Westside Village, Cheviot Hills, Mar Vista or Sawtelle, name a shaded spot — a side porch, a covered entry, behind a gate — and give a mobile number so the driver can text on arrival. For an apartment in Palms, Mar Vista or along Sepulveda and Barrington, give a unit number, a callbox code that rings a phone, and the name of a package room or leasing office if the building has one. On a hot afternoon ask for a handoff to a person rather than a doorstep; flowers left in full Westside sun for four hours do not recover.
Can you deliver to a new baby, or to someone still in hospital?
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To a home, always. To a hospital, only where the unit allows it. UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center on 16th Street, Providence Saint John's on Santa Monica Boulevard, Ronald Reagan UCLA at 757 Westwood Plaza and Cedars-Sinai all sit inside the ring, and maternity floors are usually more permissive than intensive care, transplant and oncology floors, which refuse fresh flowers and soil outright. Neonatal units generally do not accept flowers at all. Call the unit clerk first, and remember the more useful timing: everybody sends something in week one. A delivery in week three, when the visitors have stopped and nobody is sleeping, is the one that gets remembered.
I only know their first name and street. Is that enough?
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For a house, usually yes — a full street address with a first name gets there. For anything with a gate, a lobby, a mailroom or a front desk, no. Apartment buildings need a unit number, doorman buildings along the Wilshire Corridor and in Century City need a resident name matching the unit, offices need a full name plus floor, suite or department, and a studio lot needs a drive-on pass arranged by the recipient's employer. If you are sending to a dog-sitter, a neighbor or a colleague whose surname you have never learned, the safest route is to ask them for the address details directly and lose the element of surprise, rather than lose the delivery.
They buy their own flowers at the farmers market. Is this redundant?
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No, and the Westside is the clearest proof. People here already buy stems at the Wednesday and Saturday Santa Monica market at Arizona and Second, the Sunday Brentwood market on Gretna Green Way, the Sunday Mar Vista market at Grand View and Venice, and at the old nurseries on Sawtelle. That is a chore they run for themselves. What a just-because delivery adds is the part they cannot buy: someone else thought about them on a day that had nothing on it. The flowers are the medium. If they are genuinely a plant person, Teleflora's Sky Glass Jade Plant outlasts anything cut and reads as a considered choice rather than a default one.