Need flowers for an office farewell in West Bay this afternoon?

If your office farewell is in West Bay this afternoon, first check the delivery location: Pyat Tsvetov (5 Flowers) delivers across Russia, so we cannot offer delivery to a West Bay address outside Russia. For a farewell at a Russian office, express delivery in large cities takes 1–2 hours after order confirmation, with the arrangements confirmed against your address and timing. Have the office address, recipient’s phone number and presentation time ready before choosing flowers.

At our Saint Petersburg shops, customers planning a colleague’s farewell often start with the same concern: they need something appropriate for work and easy to carry home. Our advice is to settle the handover details first, then choose a manageable bouquet and write a personal card. Pyat Tsvetov has been serving customers since 2011 and has three own flower shops in Saint Petersburg. The steps below will help you organise an afternoon presentation, including when you are ordering from abroad.

Confirm the location and the real deadline

“West Bay” alone does not give enough information to arrange delivery, especially when the order comes from another country. Check the country, city, full street address and office name before making plans around our service. If the address is outside Russia, our stated delivery coverage does not include it. If you are arranging flowers for a colleague in Russia while you are in West Bay, use the Russian destination throughout the order and make the intended delivery date explicit.

For an afternoon farewell, the useful deadline is when the flowers must be in the organiser’s hands, which may be earlier than the speeches. Allow time for reception to accept the bouquet, find the organiser and bring it to the meeting room. State the presentation time separately from the requested arrival time so the two cannot be confused. When ordering from abroad, give the timing in the destination city’s local time and check that your colleague will still be at the office.

Choose flowers that suit a workplace farewell

Start with your colleague’s taste: a favourite colour is a more useful guide than a rigid list of flower meanings. If you know little about their preferences, a balanced mix of colours can express appreciation without making the gesture feel overly personal. Red roses can suggest romance, so consider whether that association suits your working relationship. For a group gift, let the card explain the team’s gratitude rather than expecting a particular flower to communicate it.

Think about the journey after the presentation as well as the photograph in the office. A colleague leaving with a laptop, gifts and personal belongings may find a moderate bouquet easier to manage than a very large one. Strongly scented flowers may be unwelcome in a shared room, particularly if you do not know everyone’s preferences. Browse the bouquets catalogue with size, colour and the recipient’s journey home in mind, and avoid choosing by visual impact alone.

Bouquets we can deliver

Bouquet of 3 white lilies

$50

★ 5.0 · 74 reviews

Mixed bouquet of 7 red roses and 8 alstroemerias

$87

★ 4.8 · 45 reviews

Mixed bouquet of 3 chrysanthemums and 3 alstroemerias

$47

★ 5.0 · 38 reviews

Bouquet of 7 alstroemerias mix

$43

★ 4.9 · 37 reviews

Make the bouquet comfortable to receive and carry

A farewell bouquet needs somewhere sensible to wait before it is presented. Ask the organiser to prepare a clean vase or another stable container with water, and keep the flowers away from a busy desk edge. Avoid leaving them beside a radiator, in direct sunlight or next to warm office equipment. If the farewell includes refreshments, give the bouquet its own space so stems, wrapping and drinking glasses do not compete for the same small table.

After the presentation, the recipient should place cut flowers in a clean vase with fresh water as soon as practical. Remove any leaves that would sit below the waterline, and trim the stem ends with a clean, sharp tool before arranging them. Follow any care instructions supplied with the flowers, since different stems can need different treatment. Refresh the water regularly and remove fading material to help keep the arrangement clean; there is no reliable vase-life promise that applies to every bouquet.

Write a farewell message with a clear sender

For a workplace farewell, a short, specific message usually feels more sincere than a grand statement about the future. Name something the colleague contributed, such as patient guidance, careful work or support during a difficult project. Then add a straightforward wish for their next step, without assuming they are starting another job. For example: “Thank you for your calm advice and for making new colleagues feel welcome. We will miss working with you and wish you every success with what comes next.”

A card with your text is free, and our delivery is anonymous by default: the courier does not name the sender. Include your name or the team’s name in the card if you want the recipient to know who sent the flowers. When several people contribute, agree the wording before ordering so nobody has to improvise at the handover. Our guide to flowers for a colleague leaving offers further context for a farewell in a Russian workplace.

Arrange a handover that works with office access

Office deliveries need details that a home delivery may not: the company name, entrance, floor and any reception or visitor-access instructions. Provide the recipient’s phone number and explain who is organising the farewell if another person will coordinate the presentation. The courier calls the recipient about 15 minutes before arrival, so take that call into account when planning a surprise. If the colleague will be in a meeting or away from their phone, resolve the contact arrangements when confirming the order.

Do not assume that a courier can walk directly into a meeting room or leave flowers at an unattended desk. Check the building’s reception rules and make sure the intended person is available to receive the bouquet. If the recipient is absent, we agree a second delivery that day or a handover to a neighbour or concierge with the sender’s consent; an alternative should be agreed rather than assumed. For more preparation advice, see delivering flowers to a Russian office.

Order to Russia with the timing and payment checked

For delivery to a Russian office, choose the bouquet and provide the complete address, phone number, card text and requested timing. Express delivery in large cities takes 1–2 hours after the order is confirmed; the countdown does not begin simply because you have started checkout. Other options are an exact time with a tolerance of plus or minus 30 minutes, or the windows 09–12, 12–15, 15–18 and 18–21. For an afternoon event, choose timing that leaves room for the office handover, and use the delivery and payment information to review the arrangements.

City delivery costs 500 RUB; for remote districts and suburbs, the operator confirms the delivery price when confirming the order. Online checkout uses CloudPayments, so customers ordering from abroad should check the payment options displayed there without assuming every foreign card will be accepted. Delivery in Saint Petersburg is available around the clock, while advance orders can be placed 1–30 days ahead if the farewell is on a later date. For questions about an urgent order, call 8 (812) 507-67-05 and give the destination and presentation time first.