Floral Delivery System

Hi! We periodically receive inquiries about how we deliver flowers. There are so many ways that you can package floral arrangements and bouquets for travel.

Low cardboard boxes with lots of recycled packaging like bubble wrap or crumpled paper that comes to you in vase deliveries, etc. Bulb crates, if you have them can be great, too. Check out this post to see how we use them.

An alternative to using packing materials like bubble wrap or crinkled paper is to use other vases, upside down as spacers. This is one of my favorite tricks for packing wedding order for transport to events, because it is very clean. Works best for metal vases (I don’t recommend glass on glass).

But the simplest set up for us is to utilize a floral-specific delivery system. We have a Seminole Floral Delivery System. The platform base of the kit can be reconfigured in a number of different ways. You can also plant a section of the base pieces into a bulb crate or a wagon, etc. In my delivery van, I set the base pieces onto the top of the shelf we contstructed with 2x4s and chicken wire. We use the top shelf and seminole system to secure centerpieces and wedding bouquets. We put crates with flower buckets of loose flowers for installation work or crates with supplies below the shelf on the floor. The remaining Seminole base plates are configured into a few sections in the open area of the van for the tallest items like urn arrangements, installation work, and 5 gallon buckets with greenery, etc.

The base plates work great in the trunk of a car, too. I use a rubber mallet to put the pieces together and take them part. They hold together well. The pipe pieces look like something simple you’d find at a hardware store. Unfortuntely, they are not a common part at our local store. The exterior diameter of the pipe is _____. If you can find and cut your own pipes to length, you may be able to save some money.

I purchased the “Full Kit”. It comes with 48, 6x8inch base plates and 144 pipe-pins of varying lengths.