Occasions in Los Angeles

Occasions in Los Angeles: from an April office desk to a November table

Among occasions in Los Angeles, one of the first on the spring calendar falls on a Wednesday: the last full week of April, when offices mark Administrative Professionals Day with flowers and a card. The calendar then runs through the second Sunday of May to the fourth Thursday of November, with personal dates such as a birthday or a new address landing in any month between.

Occasion flower delivery in Los Angeles: personal dates and fixed holidays

Occasions in Los Angeles divide into two groups. Personal dates make up most of the section: a birthday, an anniversary, a golden wedding anniversary, a housewarming, the birth of a child, a christening, a date night, a confession of love, an apology, a thank you, or simply thinking of someone. Fixed holidays sit alongside them, among them Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, graduation, Father's Day and Thanksgiving.

A personal date is mostly a question of format and flower. French roses or lilies suit a declaration, hydrangea works for something softer, a box fits a desk or a car seat, and a basket suits a table that already has enough vases. A fixed holiday is more a question of timing, since the order needs to go in before everyone else's order for the same date.

Delivery for a chosen date and time slot reaches any zone in the city, and the earlier the order goes in, the more slots are still open. A card with a message is free, and it can be left unsigned, and the florist photographs the finished bouquet before the courier sets off; full delivery terms and zones are on the delivery page.

Where a bouquet is headed next, a hospital ward, a hotel room, a hot inland street, changes how it travels, and that routing is covered under how flowers reach a ward, a hotel room or a hot inland street.

Thank-you flowers for an assistant on Administrative Professionals Day

Administrative Professionals Day began in 1952 as National Secretaries' Day, started by the National Secretaries Association to recognise office staff. In the United States and Canada it now falls on the Wednesday of the last full week of April, and the usual gifts are a card, flowers, chocolate and lunch out.

Because the date lands on a working day, the bouquet travels to an office rather than a home. The order needs the company name and the floor, and where a building runs a pass system, reception takes the bouquet in and the sender is told who took it.

This is where JFLOO sends flowers for a thank-you in Los Angeles, and the card can go out signed by one person or by the whole team.

Mother's Day in Los Angeles and the stems that fly in through LAX

Mother's Day falls on the second Sunday of May, set by an Act of Congress and President Wilson's 1914 proclamation. The date has stayed fixed ever since, and it marks the busiest week of the year for cut flowers moving through the city.

Most of that traffic comes through LAX. Over five weeks around the holiday in 2022, from 4 April to 8 May, customs officers there inspected more than 36 million stems, mostly roses, tulips and dendrobium orchids. About four in five cut flowers sold in the United States arrive from abroad, with Colombia and Ecuador the leading suppliers, which is why a May bouquet in Los Angeles has usually just flown in.

On the day itself, order volumes run several times higher than usual, so delivery slots widen and couriers no longer promise an exact minute. Ordering Mother's Day bouquets several days ahead keeps the earlier, narrower slots available.

Thanksgiving dinner: a basket or a bouquet for the host's table

Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November, a date that shifts by a few days each year, and the evening centres on a shared family table.

A guest arriving with flowers is really bringing them to the host, and the host's kitchen may not have a free vase to spare on a night that busy. A basket solves that, since it stands on its own without one; a bouquet still needs water found for it somewhere.

Thanksgiving flowers and housewarming bouquets sit close together in the section for the same reason: both are carried to someone else's table rather than kept at home.

Choosing where to start usually comes down to the date on the calendar: a thank-you for an assistant, a Mother's Day bouquet, a Thanksgiving centrepiece, or simply a birthday. For a birthday, birthday flowers cover the city's biggest subsection, and where a table or a desk calls for something that stands on its own, flower baskets are the easiest place to start.