A get-well delivery to a house starts with a text. When our driver is on the way, the recipient's phone lights up, and for someone a few days out of surgery and parked on the living room couch, that message buys a few minutes to get up slowly and make it to the door. If the door stays shut, that is fine too. The arrangement goes to a covered porch, a lobby, a front desk or a neighbor, never into direct sun, with a note saying where to find it.
Hidden Door delivers get-well flowers for someone recovering at home across Raleigh, Cary, Morrisville, Apex, Wake Forest, Rolesville, Durham, Chapel Hill and RTP, same-day or next-day. Each arrangement is made in our Northwest Raleigh studio when the order comes in. The designer photographs it and sends you the picture before it leaves, and one of our own drivers carries it to the house. Put the order in the recipient's name at the home address, and mark it as a home at checkout. A compact piece in soft color is the usual choice for the table beside where they rest. Delivery is priced by the recipient's ZIP. Enter your ZIP for the current delivery charge.
Send it the day after they get home
Discharge day is crowded. There is the paperwork, the ride home from Rex on Lake Boone Trail or WakeMed Cary, the stop for prescriptions, the slow business of getting from the car to the bed. Flowers that land in the middle of all that get set on the first flat surface and looked at properly a day later. The better moment comes once the patient has had a night in her own bed and the house has gone a little quiet. Aim for the next day, or a few days in when the first round of visitors has thinned out, and she will have time to sit and look at them.
If your person is still in the hospital, our guide to sending flowers to a Raleigh hospital covers front desks and which units take flowers. Some of those units take none, and the guide suggests waiting for a standard room or sending to the house after discharge. For a recovery in a nursing home or an assisted living apartment, our guide to sending flowers to a nursing home covers the name, wing and apartment number the order needs.
We do not deliver on Sundays, so a Sunday order goes out on Monday, which after a weekend discharge is about the right day anyway.
Same-day delivery is for quick get well soon flowers, the kind you send because you heard this morning that she is home and you want something on her table before dark. Check her ZIP for today's cutoff. A larger piece, or one you want the designer to take real time over, is worth ordering a day or two ahead. Our same-day delivery page shows the arrangements our designers can make for today.
Choose for the table beside the recliner
A recovery happens in a small territory. The side table next to the recliner, the nightstand, the arm of the sofa, the stretch of kitchen counter where the pill organizer now lives. Those surfaces fill up fast with a water glass, a phone charger, a remote and a stack of discharge papers. Whatever you send has to live among them and survive someone reaching across with their one good arm.
So think compact and steady, low enough to see over from a pillow. Soft color reads as cheerful from across a room, and pale yellow, a pale warm pink, a clear sky blue or creamy white with one brighter note all do it. Some people are sensitive to scent while they recover. If you know yours is, pick an arrangement that leans on color and shape.
Compare the size options on the product page with the spot where it will sit. The Standard is the compact one. A Deluxe runs fuller and taller, and it belongs on the kitchen island or the dining table where the family eats now that dinner has moved closer to the patient. If you would sooner set a budget and let the designer decide, Designer's Choice Custom Budget is built for exactly that.
Think about the other person in the house, too. A spouse handling the driving and the middle-of-the-night pills lives with your flowers as much as the patient does. Put them where both of them pass every day, and nobody needs to say so on the card.
A card for the long stretch on the couch
The card holds up to 300 characters, printed and enclosed with the arrangement. It carries your words and nothing else, with no branding and no prices anywhere in the delivery. Checkout reminds you to sign your name. Do it, because a beautiful arrangement from nobody in particular is a puzzle for someone on pain medication.
A card for a hospital room can be short and bright. A home recovery runs longer, and the card sits on the table for a while, so write something she will be glad to reread, and ask for nothing back. "No need to reply. I'm bringing soup Thursday." Or, for the friend who has been binge-watching since the anesthesia wore off, "Tell me which show you're on and I'll watch it too." If there is a caregiver, sign it to both of them. A small offer of real help is the line they remember.
When the recovery stretches into weeks, a second arrangement from our thinking of you flowers tells her you are still counting the days with her.
From Falls River to Chapel Hill, getting it to the door
To the north, our drivers run up the Falls of Neuse corridor to Falls River and Bedford at Falls River. On our own side of town they know the homes off Creedmoor Road and Edwards Mill, and Stonehenge off Creedmoor near Lake Lynn. North Hills has residential towers along Six Forks Road, and where a building has a concierge or security desk, we coordinate so the arrangement reaches the right person. The same team carries arrangements out to Cary, Apex, Durham and Chapel Hill.
The delivery instructions box at checkout is where a home recovery gets easier. Put the gate code there if the neighborhood has one. Say where you would like it left, or that she moves slowly and the driver should give the door a minute, or that her husband will answer. Andrea Harmon did exactly that when she sent to a coworker: "This was a get well arrangement so I let them know it may take my co-worker some time to get to the door. They text and email you, giving description of who answered the door and when it was delivered."
You will get an email when the order is placed, another when it is out for delivery, and a third when it has been delivered. If you cannot be there yourself, that last one is the email that lets you put the phone down.
One from our get-well arrangements is the easy call here. A word about the front step in the delivery box helps the driver as much as anything on the card.