A Greenwich Lobby Entrance Needs Color on a Truck Day, Not on a Wish Date
The truck date is the plant date
We install seasonal color at Greenwich and White Plains commercial entrances only after the delivery window is real. A wish date on an email is not a window. The loading dock closes at 3. The front loop is valet from 7 to 10. The property manager who signs for flats is off on Fridays. If those three facts are missing, the geraniums sit on a hot sidewalk and the entrance looks worse than before we came.
Book the curb, the dock, and the signer
A Greenwich lobby with a circular drive cannot take a 26 foot box at 8 a.m. without a written slot. We put the truck on the calendar with building security, not with a hope. Commercial grounds maintenance already knows the entrance. Color still needs its own appointment so we are not fighting a moving truck and a board meeting at the same door.
Who signs? If the answer is "leave them by the vestibule," we will not order the flats. Heat on asphalt in August kills a pallet in an hour. Annual flowers are a perishable delivery, not a drop shipment. Call 914-948-6468 with the dock hours before we hold stock.
Stamford and Rye sites have the same constraint with different unions and different garage heights. We ask for the clearance, not a photo of last year's pots.
Irrigation has to be live on truck day
Color that lands in a dry bed because commercial irrigation is still off from a renovation is a write-off. We confirm the zone the day before, not the morning of. If the entrance bed was rebuilt, the old head layout may miss the new pots. That is a repair ticket, not a plant complaint.
Tenant traffic during install is a safety file. We stage on a side pad if the front loop is the only fire lane. Commercial landscape construction that is still finishing the wall cannot share the same morning with a color drop unless both supers agree in writing.
Cleanup is part of the delivery. Flats, plastic, and soil on a Greenwich sidewalk at lunch are a tenant complaint. We haul it the same visit.
Mid-cycle color is another truck, not a leftover tray
If the board wants a swap before a October event, that is a second delivery schedule. We will not "see what is left on the truck" from a residential route. Commercial color runs on its own calendar.
Lighting at the same entrance still needs aiming after the new height. That is a night visit, not a truck day add-on. See landscape lighting as a separate line.
Send dock hours before we order
Before we buy plants, we want dock hours, who signs, and whether the irrigation zone is live. If a separate construction gate is in the way, say so. Contact Bellantoni. Related notes live on the blog. We would rather delay a week than dump color on a curb with no water and no signer.
Is the Entrance Color Waiting on a Real Truck Window?
Send dock hours, who signs, and whether the irrigation zone is live. We will book the delivery before we order the flats.