Boise County, ID Flowers by Hand

The Address Question in the Mountains

Two things make an address here different from an address in the valley below. The first is that houses sit up forest roads and along creek bottoms where a number on a post is the only marker, so a phone number for the recipient does more work than any other field on the order. The second is that the name of this county belongs to a city that is not part of it: Boise, ID has its own separate city page, and this one covers the county around and above it.

Idaho City is the seat and the largest of the three towns, and it is small enough that a street name and a surname will usually do. Horseshoe Bend sits down on the river at the north west corner. Robie Creek is a scattering of houses up behind the ridge, reached by one road, and an order for that address benefits from a note about which turning to take. There are no hospital or care addresses in the county, so orders go to houses and to workplaces.

One more thing separates the county from the city that shares its name. Search results mix the two constantly, so it is worth saying plainly that the Boise city page is a different page covering different ground, while everything below this line is about Idaho City, Horseshoe Bend and Robie Creek. A sender who meant the city rather than the county should follow the link above instead of ordering from here.

Seasonal Stems and Substitution

Flower types may be substituted for what the florist has available on the day, which this far up in the mountains is a genuine constraint rather than small print. The arrangement itself does not move: the size, the shape and the value are what was ordered, and a substituted variety is chosen to keep the piece as close to the catalog image as the season permits. A photo of the finished arrangement is sent once it is made, at no extra charge.

Winter and midsummer give a florist very different material, and a color brief holds up better through that than a single named flower does. A note in the order is the way to protect a particular request, because the note is read where the arrangement is built. Anything that looks wrong on arrival should be reported inside three days, since flowers do not keep, and the outcomes available are a replacement, a refund or a partial credit.

The 1 PM Deadline Up the Canyon

Same-day delivery in Boise County depends on one hour: an order placed before 1 PM Mountain time reaches the recipient that same business day. The hour belongs to the recipient's clock, not the sender's, and that is the detail most senders two or three zones away get wrong. Delivery runs Monday through Saturday, and Sunday delivery is not available, so a Sunday gathering up here has to be covered by a Saturday delivery. Deliveries land between 9 AM and 7 PM.

An order placed after that hour is booked for the next working day rather than turned away. On the four dates that fill a florist's year, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas and Easter, the same-day cutoff can come earlier than 1 PM, and a county reached by two mountain roads is one where two days of notice buys a real choice of arrangements. A preferred hour can be asked for, but the honest offer is the window rather than a fixed time.

Birthday and New Baby Orders

The ordinary reasons carry most of the orders. A birthday for somebody who has lived up here for years, a new baby coming home to a house on a forest road, an anniversary, a thank you to a neighbor who cleared a driveway after a storm: each of those suits a different shape. A birthday piece can be bright and can stand anywhere. A new baby order does better low and small. An anniversary usually wants height.

Workplace deliveries are worth more thought here than in most counties, because a good share of the people living in Boise County work down in the valley. An order to an office is signed for and put in water, while an order to a house up a forest road depends on somebody being at home to open the door. The recipient's own habit usually settles it, and a phone number on the order lets a florist ask rather than guess.

The County, the Towns, the Codes

At 1,900 square miles for 8,581 people, this is among the emptiest ground in Idaho and the reason the delivery pattern looks nothing like the valley's. Orders reach Idaho City, ID, Horseshoe Bend, ID and Robie Creek, ID, and each of those town pages carries street detail this one cannot. Mail moves through 83631, 83629 and 83716.

Two counties share a line with this one. Ada County, ID sits along the south west, holding the city that shares this county's name, and Elmore County, ID lies away to the south east. A recipient near either of those lines is still a Boise County address if the ZIP code says so, and the code is what a florist reads first.

An Anniversary and the Four Big Dates

An anniversary here is often an anniversary of moving up out of the valley, and a piece with height suits the rooms these houses have. Congratulations and get well orders work best sent to a workplace down the hill, where somebody signs for them. The arrangements are listed by size and occasion, and the size shown is the size delivered. The other counties in the state sit at Idaho county flower delivery.

Substitution is worth one last mention because it is the part senders worry about: the flower can change, the arrangement cannot, and size, shape and value are fixed when the order is placed. Deliveries run Monday through Saturday between 9 AM and 7 PM, and Sunday delivery is not available in Boise County any more than it is elsewhere. The photo that follows the delivery is sent at no extra charge.