Chicot County, AR Flowers by Hand

Lake Village is the seat of Chicot County and the place most of its flowers go. Chicot Memorial Medical Center and Lake Village Rehabilitation and Care Center are both there, and so is the largest concentration of homes. Around them, Dermott and Eudora each hold a few thousand people, and between the three of them lies 637 square miles of flat farmland in the far southeast of Arkansas.

Funerals and the hour the room has to be ready

Sympathy orders make up a large share of what comes into a county like this one, and they are the orders where a small detail changes everything. Give the service time at checkout. Not the visiting hours, not the date alone: the hour the room has to be ready. A florist plans the build backwards from that moment, and a two-hour error is the difference between flowers standing in place and flowers arriving while people are leaving.

If the notice names a chapel, a church or a graveside, add it to the notes. If the family has asked for a particular color, say so, and it will be respected as far as the week's stock allows. Where a spray is going on a casket rather than standing beside it, say that too, because it changes how the piece is built and not just how large it is.

Celebrations, and getting the date right

The rest of the orders are the happy ones. A birthday, an anniversary, a new baby, a graduation, a thank-you that has waited too long already. For those, the only real trap is the calendar rather than the clock: a delivery attempted on a Sunday is not possible, so anything for a Sunday celebration goes out on the Saturday before it.

A workplace address is fine but empties earlier than a home does, and the window runs into the evening. If the recipient finishes at four, a home address is the safer instruction, and a mobile number in the notes covers the rest.

Three towns on the county's list

Lake Village sits under 71653, Dermott under 71638 and Eudora under 71640. Each has a page of its own with its postal code and the buildings we deliver to there. Dermott City Nursing Home is the main named destination away from the seat. Use this county page when the address is out on a farm road and the town name is a mailing address rather than a place the driver will pass through.

Chicot County holds fewer than ten thousand people now, and the practical effect is that a driver covering it is making a long loop rather than a tight round. That is why the delivery window is stated as a window and not as an appointment, and why a phone number for the recipient is worth adding to any order going to a rural address.

The Central time cutoff, and the hours we deliver

Same day means before 1 PM Central time, read on the recipient's clock rather than yours. After that, the order moves to the next business day. Flower deliveries run Monday through Saturday, and there is no delivery on Sunday. Arrangements are handed over between 9 AM and 7 PM, and where an address falls inside that window depends on the shape of the day's route rather than on anything that can be fixed in advance. A preferred time can be requested and will be passed on, but it is not something anyone can promise.

In the weeks around Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas and Easter the same-day cutoff can be earlier than 1 PM. Ordering two days ahead in those weeks is the simplest way to avoid the question entirely.

Distance is the reason all of this gets spelled out. Chicot County reaches from the state line in the south up past the seat, and a single run can take in a town address and a farm gate twenty miles further on. That is not a problem, but it does mean the honest answer to when it will arrive is a window rather than an hour. Anyone offering you a fixed time for a rural address in Chicot County is guessing at it.

Substituted stems and the photo you get back

Flower types may be substituted for what the florist has that day, with no change to the type of arrangement and no change to its size, shape or value. The care goes into keeping it as close to what you ordered as the supply allows, and in a rural county in midwinter that flexibility is the reason the order can be filled at all.

Once it is built, a photograph of the finished arrangement is sent to you at no additional charge. It is the actual piece, not the catalog image, and it settles the question of what was delivered without anyone having to ask. On an order sent from another part of the country to a relative nobody in your family can visit, that photograph is often the only thing anybody outside the state ever sees of it, and it arrives without you having to chase it.

Where else to look in Arkansas

The neighboring pages are Ashley County, AR to the west, Drew County, AR to the northwest, and across the river Bolivar County, MS and Washington County, MS. For the rest of the state, the Arkansas delivery page is the place to start, and the arrangements are grouped by occasion.