Flowers in Boxes in Brooklyn

Flowers in boxes in Brooklyn: carried on, set down or hung up

Flowers in boxes in Brooklyn run from a lidded hat box and a flower handbag with its own handles to a jute pot, a crate and a hanging basket, so the box section covers five quite different shapes. The first decision is less about the flower than about what the recipient will do with the gift: carry it with them, set it down or hang it up. In every one of these forms the stems sit in wet foam, so no vase is needed on arrival.

A rose, a lily or a hydrangea: choosing the flower before the shape

The Brooklyn range leans on roses, both Ecuadorian and the kind florists finish by hand into what the trade calls a French rose, alongside lisianthus, lilies, hydrangea, gerberas and Misty. A French rose is not a variety at all: the florist bends the outer petals back, reflexing them, so the flower opens wider than it would on its own. Most imported cut flowers in the US clear customs in Miami, shipped mainly from Colombia and Ecuador.

Hydrangea takes more care once it is in a box: it drinks more than the other flowers here and takes in water through its petals as well as its stem. Lilies are worth a second look too, but for a different reason: they are toxic to cats, so a box going into a home with one is better filled with something else. Spring is bulb season, and that is when hyacinths show up in the range. Lilac follows in May, the same weeks it flowers along Cherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. That overlap is roughly where a flower handbag filled with lilac earns its place in the range.

Opened on the spot or carried on by its handles

A hat box is meant to be opened where it lands: the lid comes off and the box stays on the table or the windowsill it was set on, roses and all already arranged inside. A flower handbag works the opposite way. It has handles for a reason, and a guest heading to dinner, or to a friend's place, picks it up and carries the flowers on rather than leaving them behind. The "Crescent" Box and the Handbag "Zakat" (Sunset) sit at either end of that difference, one built to stay put, the other to travel.

Guests staying at hotels in DUMBO or Williamsburg are one reason to choose the handbag format, since a flowers in Brooklyn delivery to a room is just as easy to carry down to a restaurant as to leave on the desk.

Flower box delivery in Brooklyn for a sill or a hook

A jute pot and a crate are set down once and stay there; a hanging basket is hung on a hook and left. None of the three is meant to move again once it arrives, which makes them an easy gift to send to someone who will not be rearranging it. Flower box delivery in Brooklyn works the same way for any of the three as it does for a hat box: the foam holds the arrangement for roughly as long as a vase would, provided the water is topped up every day.

Radiators dry the air out in winter, and a box left too close to one needs that daily watering more than usual. Flower box delivery in Brooklyn mostly reaches people on the day they place the order, and the florist photographs the finished box before the courier leaves, so anything worth fixing can still be changed on that photo. A card goes in free of charge. The delivery terms page shows the time for each box in its own listing.

Flowers and macarons in one box for a dinner invitation

Flowers paired with macarons in boxes travel as one gift rather than two, which suits a dinner invitation or a visit to someone's home better than flowers alone. For a Russian-speaking recipient, flowers with a card and something sweet is close to how 8 March is marked, so the combination reads as more than decoration. A family sitting shiva is the one occasion to skip the flowers altogether; fruit or food is sent instead.

Choosing flowers in boxes in Brooklyn starts with what the gift does next. Hat boxes suit one that stays where it is opened, flower handbags suit one that keeps moving, and compositions in jute pots suit a recipient who would rather set something down once and be done with it.