Flowers in Crittenden County, AR

Crittenden County is a long strip of flat land on the eastern edge of Arkansas, 613 square miles of it, with around 47,000 people gathered mostly in the south. The distance from the northern farms of Crittenden County down to the built-up part is real, and it is the first thing worth knowing about a delivery here, because it is what turns a delivery time into a delivery window.

Three towns and 613 square miles

West Memphis carries 72301 and 72303 and holds most of the named buildings. Marion sits at 72364 a short way north, and Earle is further out at 72331. Each town has its own delivery page listing the postal codes and the places we reach there.

Use this page when the address is rural, when you have a postal code and no town name you trust, or when you are sending to two addresses on opposite sides of the county in the same week. The postal code decides the routing, not the town written on the envelope.

The codes on this page do not divide evenly. 72301 and 72303 both belong to West Memphis and between them cover most of the addresses in Crittenden County, while 72364 covers Marion and 72331 covers Earle with the farmland around it. A driver reads the code first, because a road on flat delta ground can carry the same name on both sides of a town line. Willowbend Health and Rehabilitation stands in 72364 on Canal Street, and The Springs Broadway and The Springs of Avalon are both inside 72301, which is the sort of detail that decides whether an arrangement reaches a resident within the hour or at the end of the afternoon.

Birthdays, weddings and new arrivals

Most orders here are not sad ones. Birthdays, engagements, a new baby, a fiftieth wedding anniversary, a thank-you owed since last month. For those the only practical question is the address: send to where the person will actually be between 9 AM and 7 PM, and add a phone number so a driver who finds nobody home has somewhere to go with the problem.

Workplace addresses are worth timing toward the middle of the day, because an office that closes at five empties before the delivery window does. A home address is the safer instruction for anything sent late in the afternoon.

Sympathy flowers and service times

On a funeral order the service time does more work than the street address. Give the hour the room has to be ready rather than the visiting hours, because that is the moment the florist plans backwards from. Name the chapel or the graveside if the notice names one, and say whether the piece stands beside the casket or lies on it, since those are built to different shapes.

Where a service falls on a Sunday, the flowers have to arrive on the Saturday. That is not a preference but the delivery schedule, and it is much easier to work around when you learn it two days early rather than on the morning.

The Central time cutoff explained

An order that arrives before 1 PM Central time is worked the same business day, and the zone belongs to the recipient rather than the sender. On a county that sits close to a state line this matters more than usual, because senders often assume the clock they can see out of the window is the one that counts. It is not.

Flower deliveries run Monday through Saturday and there is no delivery on Sunday. Arrangements are handed over between 9 AM and 7 PM. A specific hour can be requested and passed on, but nobody will promise it, because the route is assembled after the day's orders are in. In the four peak holiday weeks the same-day cutoff can be earlier than 1 PM.

Sitting close to a state line changes one more thing about a Crittenden County order. A sender who has driven through the area often remembers a bridge and a skyline rather than a county, and the address they are working from was frequently written for a postal service rather than for a driver. The code settles it, and so does the town name once it has been checked against the code. Everything on this page is delivered inside Arkansas, Monday through Saturday, and no part of the route crosses a state line, so an address that turns out to sit on the far side of the river belongs on another page rather than this one.

Deliveries to a hospital or care home

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden and Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of West Memphis both take patient flowers at a front desk, and so do The Springs Broadway, The Springs of Avalon and Willowbend Health and Rehabilitation up at Marion. Staff carry the arrangement on to the room from there.

Give the patient or resident full name and a unit or room number where you have one. Behavioral and rehabilitation units in particular have their own rules about what can be brought on to a ward, so if a family member has mentioned a restriction, put it in the notes and the florist will work around it rather than discovering it at the door.

How to pick an arrangement

Flower types may be substituted for what the florist has available that day, with no change to the type of arrangement and none to its size, shape or value. Choose by the shape and the scale of the piece rather than by one flower in the photograph, and you will get what you expected. A photograph of the finished piece follows once the florist has built it, at no extra charge.

The pages bordering Crittenden County include Cross County, AR, Poinsett County, AR and St. Francis County, AR. For anywhere else in Arkansas, start at the Arkansas delivery page, or open the arrangements and choose by occasion first.