### New baby flowers in Bali: send something that arrives finished Most people order for the first day, when the room is already full of other people's flowers. A fortnight later the same gift lands in a quiet week and gets remembered. Either way, two practical questions decide whether it works: where it is going, and what the person receiving it has to do when it gets there. #### Ask the ward before you order Many maternity units will not take cut stems on the ward at all, and the policy differs between buildings rather than following one rule. That question is worth asking before the order rather than after it. If the answer is no, the delivery moves to the home address, either for the day of discharge or for a week later. Nothing about that costs anything except a message. Sending to the home has a second advantage that people rarely think about. Somebody is nearly always in, which removes the usual problem of a courier standing at a locked door holding something that cannot wait in a hallway all day. > "The question we ask before anything else is whether the flowers can go up to the ward. It saves the order more often than any advice about which flower to pick." > JFLOO florist Book the middle of the morning or the middle of the afternoon. A newborn household sleeps in fragments, and a doorbell in the evening is not a kindness to anybody in it. #### What the format has to do Send something that arrives finished. A box or a lined basket over a soaked base needs no vase, no scissors and no sink, and it goes onto a shelf with one hand while the other hand is holding a baby. A wrapped bunch asks for fifteen minutes of work from the person with the least time in the house, and that work usually does not happen until the evening. By then the stems have been sitting in their own condensation inside the wrapping. Keep the footprint small and the base wider than the top. Surfaces near a cot are crowded with bottles, wipes and a phone, and anything narrow goes over the first time somebody reaches past it. Width beats height in that room. #### The island part Seminyak, Canggu and Sanur take 90 to 150 minutes from a confirmed order, while Uluwatu, Tabanan and the remote villas take three to four hours with the gate and the security post included in that. Berawa, Kuta, Legian, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua and Ubud are routine for us. Above 30 °C with island humidity behind it we wrap firmly and pack a cooling element, and on the long runs the box travels closed and gets opened at the door. Delivery runs 9 AM to 10 PM. Orders start at 650,000 IDR, and payment goes by QRIS, GoPay, OVO, DANA or cash to the courier. Lisianthus, ranunculus and macrophylla hydrangea carry the pale end of the palette without any scent, orchids hold their line for weeks in the same piece, and imported roses at 60 to 90 cm come in for cream, blush and soft peach. Tropical foliage keeps the outline steady when the arrangement gets moved one handed. Anything that drops pollen onto white bedding stays out of the build entirely. Tell us whether the ward accepts flowers, the address for the day of discharge and an hour in the middle of the morning or afternoon. Sending new baby flowers in Bali works best when that much is settled before we start building.