New Baby Flowers

About new baby flowers

For new parents, sent either to the hospital or, more often and more usefully, to the home they come back to. The arrangements here are on the smaller side — a median of about 12 inches — which is deliberate: a hospital room has very little surface to spare.

What these cost

Estimated delivered totals in this category run from $94.94 to $124.94, with a median of $99.94 — 4 of the 51 cost less than that. They cluster hard — 51 arrangements resolve to just 7 distinct totals, so a great many of these are priced identically. By band: under $104.94, 31; $104.94 – $109.94, 8; $109.94 and up, 12. Every one of those figures already includes Florist One's flat $19.99 delivery and service charge.

Delivery

• Hospital deliveries need the ward as well as the patient name, and many maternity units have a cut-off time. Ring the ward before you order rather than after.
• Sending to the home a week later avoids all of that, and is usually the better gift anyway.

How to choose

• Check with the family before sending to a hospital. Many maternity units accept flowers and many neonatal units do not, and policies differ between hospitals in the same city.
• Something in its own container beats a wrapped bouquet here more than anywhere. Most of this category is arrangements and centrepieces rather than wraps, which matters when nobody in the house has a spare hand for a vase and a pair of scissors.
• Strongly scented flowers are worth avoiding in a small room with a newborn. Product descriptions list what is in each arrangement.