Sending Flowers to an Office or Coworker in LA

Yes, you can send flowers to an office in Los Angeles, and the order lands cleanly when it carries the company name, the floor or suite, and the recipient's name. Adore Flowers delivers to workplaces during business hours, same day on orders placed before 11 AM, Monday through Saturday.

An office delivery has two audiences: the person it is for, and everyone who walks past their desk for the rest of the week. That second audience is what makes people hesitate. This guide covers the details a workplace order needs, how to pitch the arrangement, and what to do about a standing order.

What details does an office delivery need?

Four things: the company name, the floor or suite, the recipient's full name, and any building or badge instruction. Put them in the delivery notes at checkout.

Reception receives it, signs for it, and routes it internally. Couriers are not walked to desks in most Los Angeles towers, so the front desk is the real destination.

If it is meant to be a surprise, address the note to the recipient and leave the sender's instructions for the desk. Our guide to offices, hotels, and funeral homes covers the awkward cases.

What flowers are appropriate for a coworker?

Moderate scale, low scent, and a vessel that needs nothing done to it. A desk is a shared surface, and a monitor is usually already on it.

Keep the fragrance light. In six years of workplace deliveries I have never had a complaint about an arrangement being too small, and I have had several about one being too perfumed.

Our everyday collection starts at $150 and leaves the studio the same day on orders before 11 AM, Monday through Saturday. Every piece is set in a permanent vessel, so the recipient is not hunting for a jug in the office kitchen.

Do flowers actually do anything in an office?

The research says they change how people think in the room. Texas A&M researchers led by Roger Ulrich studied 101 participants for the Society of American Florists.

Men in the study generated 15 percent more ideas in a workplace that included flowers and plants. Women produced more flexible, creative solutions to the same problems.

What should you send a client rather than a colleague?

Something more composed, and usually larger. A client piece is read as a statement about your company, so it should be neutral, architectural, and clearly not an afterthought.

Our signature collection is where those orders sit, at $300 and $400. For a promotion or a win inside the team, our congratulations collection is the warmer register.

The Society of American Florists reads alstroemeria as aspiring and bronze chrysanthemum as excitement, which is a more useful vocabulary for a work gift than red roses.

What should you write on a card sent to work?

Write it so a colleague could read it over their shoulder. That is the practical test, because someone almost certainly will.

Every Adore order arrives with a hand-written note rather than a printed card. Add the message at checkout, and name the reason: the promotion, the launch, the last day.

Should an office get flowers every week?

If the space has a reception desk, a boardroom, or a lobby anyone waits in, yes. A standing weekly order removes the decision from everyone's calendar.

We run those across Los Angeles from our Downtown studio, on a fixed day each week. See corporate and weekly flowers for how an account is set up.

When will an office delivery arrive?

Inside business hours, in one of two windows: 10 AM to 1 PM, or 1 to 5 PM. Same-day orders arrive in the guaranteed 1 to 5 PM window.

For a workplace, the morning window is safer around a Friday or a holiday. Schedule the date at checkout if the occasion is fixed.

We deliver daily to Century City in 90067, to the towers along Avenue of the Stars, across Downtown Los Angeles in 90012 through 90017, and to production offices in Studio City off Ventura Boulevard. Coverage and fees are on the delivery page.

Related reading

See weekly office flowers in Los Angeles, delivering to hotels, offices, and funeral homes, and what to write on a flower card.