Posted by: scentandviolet March 18th, 2025

A lot has changed in our world, including flowers and gifts delivery to hospitals. Even hospital care has changed. With many advances in technology, many surgeries are done at the outpatient level and people are spending less time in hospitals

When the pandemic hit, many hospitals have closed the doors to the outsiders and I am grateful for that. At the beginning of the pandemic, we still had people who insisted on sending flowers to Covid-19 patients. I do recall conversation with one determined lady who insisted I should and can deliver flowers to her colleague in ICU, and that she will persuade the hospital to let me in. When I suggested for her to pick-up the flowers and take them herself, I was told: I don’t want to get infected. Well, neither did I.

Anyway, we stopped delivering to hospitals but continued delivering to long-term care patients in VA, Rehabs, and Nursing Homes. We felt like goodwill messengers at that time. People were sending flowers to express their love and feelings. Card messages were those of love, care, and longing. Our hearts were filled with joy and their rooms were filled with flowers.

Even when the pandemic eased up, flowers and gifts continued to be sent to homes and offices instead of hospitals. One of the reasons was that delivering to hospitals became a little too complicated and most of the delivery services refused to go there. Our in-store delivery drivers continued delivering to HCA West Houston Medical Center, Methodist Houston West, and Memorial Hermann Memorial City, but most of the other hospitals were out of reach for us.

Time moved on, and world keeps changing. Pandemic is a distant memory, pushed deep in the same room with Harvey and Freeze. While we can deliver to hospitals, it is less frequent compared to pre-pandemic time. Our customers typically select delivery to home or a hotel, instead. With patients staying very short times in the hospitals, it is often less complicated to send get well flowers to the residence instead.

Delivering flowers to hospital employees seems to be less frequent, too. Are we no longer grateful for the care we receive? Personally, I used to send thank you baskets to the nursing staff pre-pandemic. I am no longer doing that. Am I less grateful for the care my family members receive, or can I no longer afford to give gifts to nursing staff is a discussion for another time. All-in-all, we all appear to be less grateful to nurses and doctors in hospital.

We continue to care and send get well flowers and wishes to our friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors. We are just choosing to send it to residences and hotels, instead.

Should you decide to send flowers to someone in the hospital, make sure they’re staying there for a while and they’re not in the ICU. You can call us and we can help you make a decision on what to send: flowers, plants, or balloons.

 

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Scent & Violet, flowers and gifts is a full service florist in Houston, TX offering flower, plant and gift delivery in Houston, Katy, Richmond, Fulshear, Sugar Land and Bellaire. We aim to create fuss-free, everyday shopping source for flowers, plants, and gifts. It is our belief that we can create better relationships through gifting, better environments through plants, and better state of mind through flowers.