Send Flowers Across Chatham County, GA

Chatham County runs from the marsh to the islands

433 square miles does not sound like much until the water is counted in. The seat sits on the river, the islands sit east of it behind causeways and bridges, and Pooler and Bloomingdale run west along the highway. A florist near the recipient covers whichever of those an address belongs to, and the sixteen town pages under this one are how that gets sorted rather than guessed. Chatham County is the reason a county layer exists at all: sixteen towns is far too many for a state page to make sense of.

The busiest of them are Savannah, Pooler, Tybee Island, Wilmington Island and Garden City. Twenty ZIP codes run beneath them, and 31401 covers the old grid by the river while 31419 and 31410 reach the southern and eastern edges. One step above, every county we deliver to in Georgia is listed together.

Anniversary and congratulations flowers

An anniversary is the order to place two or three days out, because the date is the whole point and a date can be worked to precisely. A congratulations arrangement is usually going to a workplace, which narrows the day rather than the hour. A birthday is the forgiving one and can often be saved on the morning of it if the order is in before that hour. Chatham County handles more of these than most Georgia counties its size.

Size is the decision people take one step too small. On a screen a vase stands alone; on a kitchen counter it competes with a fruit bowl and a kettle, and in a hotel lobby it disappears altogether. The same is true of a hospital room, where a wide arrangement simply will not fit on the table. Go up a step for a large room and stay low and compact for a bedside table. Everything we arrange and deliver in Chatham County is grouped by occasion and by size. A vase the recipient already owns changes the answer, which is what a hand-tied bunch is for.

Tybee Island, Pooler and the towns between

The two ends of this county are not interchangeable. An address in the old grid is a street number a florist can find in a minute. An address on Tybee Island or Skidaway Island is a lane beyond a bridge, and the run out there tends to be made once in a day rather than twice, so a morning order is worth more than a careful instruction.

West of the river, Pooler, Port Wentworth and Garden City are highway towns with subdivisions behind them, and the addresses there are gated more often than not. A contact number for the recipient is worth more than anything you can type, because nobody at a guardhouse in Georgia is going to telephone a florist for permission to come in.

The 1 PM hour, said in Eastern time

An order placed before 1 PM Eastern time reaches the recipient the same business day, and every ZIP code here sits in that single zone. Flower delivery runs Monday through Saturday. Sunday delivery is not available, which on this coast comes up constantly, because weddings, services and family gatherings fall on a Sunday and have to be covered the day before instead.

The window itself runs from 9 AM to 7 PM. A preferred hour can be requested in the notes and a florist will aim at it, though two bridges and a river make a promise to the minute dishonest. Past the cutoff the order becomes the next business day's, and ahead of Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, and again before Christmas and Easter, that hour sits earlier in the morning.

Holiday and event weeks are the ones to plan around rather than fight. Chatham County carries more weddings and more visitors than its size suggests, and in the weeks before Valentine's Day and Mother's Day the cutoff sits earlier and the cooler empties faster. Two or three days of notice turns the order into a choice instead of a scramble.

Sympathy flowers at Candler Hospital

Many of the sympathy orders leaving for Pooler and Garden City have no service attached to them at all. Candler Hospital and St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah take the other kind, and so do Azalealand Nursing Home and Riverview Health and Rehab Ctr, where something small enough for a bedside table is kinder than something that needs a stand and floor space beside a bed.

Write the building, the ward and the recipient's full name on the order. A front desk will sign for flowers and walk them up; an intensive care unit generally will not accept them, so it is worth asking the family first. Where a patient has already been discharged, a home address avoids the whole question and the delivery photo confirms where the flowers went. A florist near the recipient will know which of those buildings takes deliveries at which door.

A funeral order is the firmer instruction: the day before the service rather than the morning of it, and the name of the chapel spelled out in full. A standing spray belongs at the service. A vase arrangement belongs at the family house afterwards, where there will be people coming and going for a fortnight.

Substitution and coastal stock

Flower types can be exchanged for what the florist has on hand that morning, and on a humid coast in late summer that is a real constraint rather than a formality. The arrangement is not exchanged: its size, its shape and its value are the ones that were ordered, and the swap is chosen to keep the finished piece as close to the original as the cooler allows.

A picture of the actual finished arrangement is sent once the florist has made it, at no extra charge, which is the most useful thing on this page for a sender several states away. If something is wrong, the three days after the delivery are the window to raise it, and the outcomes are a replacement, a refund, or credit against part of the order. Bryan County, GA lies south west of Chatham County, GA and Effingham County, GA north west, each with its own towns.