Flowers to Any Address in Broward County, FL

One in ten Floridians lives inside Broward County

With a population above two million in 1,203 square miles, Broward County is the second most crowded county in the state, and that density changes what a delivery address needs to say. Roughly half of the 84 five digit codes here belong to towers, gated communities and condominium associations rather than to streets of houses. A unit number is therefore not optional detail, and neither is the building name where one exists. Orders run to Fort Lauderdale, FL under 33301 and 33316, to Hollywood, FL under 33020, to Pembroke Pines, FL in the southwest, to Coral Springs, FL under 33065 in the north, and to Pompano Beach, FL under 33060. Concierge desks are the quiet advantage of the place: a doorman who signs for a piece at four in the afternoon solves the problem that an empty house creates.

Ordering into 1 PM Eastern from another zone

The clock here is Eastern, and an order placed before 1 PM Eastern time goes out for the same business day. That is ten in the morning for a sender on the Pacific coast and eleven for one in the mountain states, so the practical deadline is earlier than it looks on a website that does not say which zone it means. Flower deliveries run Monday through Saturday and Sunday delivery is not available, which matters in Broward County, where a great many occasions are weekend occasions. Arrivals fall between 9 AM and 7 PM, and a specific hour inside that stretch can be requested but not promised. Around Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas and Easter the same day cutoff is frequently earlier than the usual one, and in a county this size those are also the days when the roads themselves add time. For an address on a barrier island, or one behind a manned gate, the front half of the arrival window is worth aiming at rather than the back half, because a second attempt later in the evening is an attempt at a building where the desk has already changed shift.

Thirty four towns and eighty four ZIP codes

The codes climb from 33004 on the coast at the southern end up through the 33060s in the north and out to the 33320s and 33330s in the west, and they do not follow the town boundaries in any way a stranger could guess. That is the argument for typing the code rather than the town: an address described as being in one town on a letterhead may sit under a code belonging to the next one along. Where the recipient works in an office park, the suite number does more work than the street name. Where the recipient lives behind a gate, the gate code or the association name is what gets a delivery past the entrance. A mobile number on the order form is the single most useful thing a sender can add, because it turns a failed attempt into a short phone call rather than a return trip. Broward County covers enough ground that a single wrong digit can move an address from the ocean to the western edge of the built up area, and no amount of goodwill at the far end fixes that after the fact.

Choosing for a home you have never visited

Guessing at scale is harder here than in most places, because a condominium living room and a house in the western suburbs are not the same room at all. A tall vase design suits a lobby, a reception counter or a dining table with space around it. A low, dense bowl is the safer choice for a bedside table, a kitchen counter or a desk. The catalog of arrangements and plants shows every design at the size sold, and going up a size normally means more stems in the same silhouette rather than a different look. Tropical designs travel well in this climate and last longer in an air conditioned room than delicate spring stems do. A potted orchid asks less of a recipient than cut flowers and holds for weeks rather than days, which is worth considering for somebody who travels or works long hours.

Substitution and the summer coolers

Flower types may be substituted for what the florist has available, with no change to the size, the shape or the value of the arrangement ordered. In south Florida that clause does real work between June and September, when the heat decides what is worth taking out of a cooler and what is not. The piece stays the piece: same container, same proportions, same outlay, with a stem of similar weight and color standing in for one that did not arrive. A photograph of the finished arrangement is sent at no additional charge once the florist has built it, which is how a sender in another state sees what was actually delivered rather than the picture that sold it. Raise anything that looks wrong inside three days of delivery, since flowers do not keep, and the resolutions available are a replacement, a refund or a partial credit.

Sympathy and hospital orders in the north

Broward Health North on East Sample Road in Deerfield Beach, under 33064, and HCA Florida University Hospital in Davie, FL take a steady share of the get well traffic. Both want the patient's full name and a room or unit, and both have wards that decline cut flowers outright, intensive care being the obvious one. Funeral directors are a different discipline: Fred Hunter in Davie is one of the named addresses here, and what a funeral home needs is the name of the deceased and the date and hour of the service, since several families may be in the building on the same afternoon. A Sunday service has to be covered on the Saturday before it. Past the line, Palm Beach County, FL and Miami-Dade County, FL have pages of their own, as does the wider list of Florida county pages, and any of them can be ordered from on the same terms that apply across Broward County.