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April 1, 2025

Ball April Floral Selection


The Bloom Central flower delivery of the month for April in Ball is the Love In Bloom Bouquet

April flower delivery item for Ball

The Love In Bloom Bouquet from Bloom Central is a delightful floral arrangement that will bring joy to any space. Bursting with vibrant colors and fresh blooms it is the perfect gift for the special someone in your life.

This bouquet features an assortment of beautiful flowers carefully hand-picked and arranged by expert florists. The combination of pale pink roses, hot pink spray roses look, white hydrangea, peach hypericum berries and pink limonium creates a harmonious blend of hues that are sure to catch anyone's eye. Each flower is in full bloom, radiating positivity and a touch of elegance.

With its compact size and well-balanced composition, the Love In Bloom Bouquet fits perfectly on any tabletop or countertop. Whether you place it in your living room as a centerpiece or on your bedside table as a sweet surprise, this arrangement will brighten up any room instantly.

The fragrant aroma of these blossoms adds another dimension to the overall experience. Imagine being greeted by such pleasant scents every time you enter the room - like stepping into a garden filled with love and happiness.

What makes this bouquet even more enchanting is its longevity. The high-quality flowers used in this arrangement have been specially selected for their durability. With proper care and regular watering, they can be a gift that keeps giving day after day.

Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, surprising someone on their birthday, or simply want to show appreciation just because - the Love In Bloom Bouquet from Bloom Central will surely make hearts flutter with delight when received.

Local Flower Delivery in Ball


Send flowers today and be someone's superhero. Whether you are looking for a corporate gift or something very person we have all of the bases covered.

Our large variety of flower arrangements and bouquets always consist of the freshest flowers and are hand delivered by a local Ball flower shop. No flowers sent in a cardboard box, spending a day or two in transit and then being thrown on the recipient’s porch when you order from us. We believe the flowers you send are a reflection of you and that is why we always act with the utmost level of professionalism. Your flowers will arrive at their peak level of freshness and will be something you’d be proud to give or receive as a gift.

Would you prefer to place your flower order in person rather than online? Here are a few Ball florists to contact:


Apple Barn
2290 E Walnut St
Chatham, IL 62629


Enchanted Florist
1049 Wabash Ave
Springfield, IL 62704


Fifth Street Flower Shop
739 S 5th St
Springfield, IL 62703


Flowers by Mary Lou
105 South Grand Ave W
Springfield, IL 62704


Friday'Z Flower Shop
3301 Robbins Rd
Springfield, IL 62704


Hy-Vee Floral - South MacArthur Boulevard
2115 S MacArthur Blvd
Springfield, IL 62704


The Flower Connection
1027 W Jefferson St
Springfield, IL 62702


The Studio On 6th
215 S 6th St
Springfield, IL 62701


True Colors Floral
2719 W Monroe St
Springfield, IL 62704


Village Tea Room
3301 Robbins Rd
Springfield, IL 62704


In difficult times it often can be hard to put feelings into words. A sympathy floral bouquet can provide a visual means to express those feelings of sympathy and respect. Trust us to deliver sympathy flowers to any funeral home in the Ball area including to:


Arnold Monument
1621 Wabash Ave
Springfield, IL 62704


Ellinger-Kunz & Park Funeral Home & Cremation Service
530 N 5th St
Springfield, IL 62702


Springfield Monument
1824 W Jefferson
Springfield, IL 62702


Staab Funeral Homes
1109 S 5th St
Springfield, IL 62703


Vancil Memorial Funeral Chapel
437 S Grand Ave W
Springfield, IL 62704


Spotlight on Tulips

Tulips don’t just stand there. They move. They twist their stems like ballet dancers mid-pirouette, bending toward light or away from it, refusing to stay static. Other flowers obey the vase. Tulips ... they have opinions. Their petals close at night, a slow, deliberate folding, then open again at dawn like they’re revealing something private. You don’t arrange tulips so much as collaborate with them.

The colors aren’t colors so much as moods. A red tulip isn’t merely red—it’s a shout, a lipstick smear against the green of its stem. The purple ones have depth, a velvet richness that makes you want to touch them just to see if they feel as luxurious as they look. And the white tulips? They’re not sterile. They’re luminous, like someone turned the brightness up on them. Mix them in a bouquet, and suddenly the whole thing vibrates, as if the flowers are quietly arguing about which one is most alive.

Then there’s the shape. Tulips don’t do ruffles. They’re sleek, architectural, petals cupped just enough to suggest a bowl but never spilling over. Put them next to something frilly—peonies, say, or ranunculus—and the contrast is electric, like a modernist sculpture placed in a Baroque hall. Or go minimalist: a cluster of tulips in a clear glass vase, stems tangled just so, and the arrangement feels effortless, like it assembled itself.

They keep growing after you cut them. This is the thing most people don’t know. A tulip in a vase isn’t done. It stretches, reaches, sometimes gaining an inch or two overnight, as if refusing to accept that it’s been plucked from the earth. This means your arrangement changes shape daily, evolving without permission. One day it’s compact, tidy. The next, it’s wild, stems arcing in unpredictable directions. You don’t control tulips. You witness them.

Their leaves are part of the show. Long, slender, a blue-green that somehow makes the flower’s color pop even harder. Some arrangers strip them away, thinking they clutter the stem. Big mistake. The leaves are punctuation, the way they curve and flare, giving the eye a path to follow from tabletop to bloom. Without them, a tulip looks naked, unfinished.

And the way they die. Tulips don’t wither so much as dissolve. Petals loosen, drop one by one, but even then, they’re elegant, landing like confetti after a quiet celebration. There’s no messy collapse, just a gradual letting go. You could almost miss it if you’re not paying attention. But if you are ... it’s a lesson in grace.

So sure, you could stick to roses, to lilies, to flowers that stay where you put them. But where’s the fun in that? Tulips refuse to be predictable. They bend, they grow, they shift the light around them. An arrangement with tulips isn’t a thing you make. It’s a thing that happens.

More About Ball

Are looking for a Ball florist because you are not local to the area? If so, here is a brief travelogue of what Ball has to offer. Who knows, perhaps you'll be intrigued enough to come visit soon, partake in some of the fun activities Ball has to offer and deliver flowers to your loved one in person!

Ball, Illinois, sits in the crook of the state’s elbow like a small, steadfast stone smoothed by the river of time. The town announces itself with a water tower that reads BALL in block letters the color of sky, a declaration both earnest and unadorned. Morning light arrives here as a patient guest, spilling across cornfields that stretch toward horizons so flat and far they seem to curve the earth. The air hums with cicadas in summer, and in winter, the snow falls with a silence so total it feels less like weather than a kind of communal pause. This is a place where the word “neighbor” remains a verb.

The town’s founder, a man named Elias Ball who arrived in 1856 with a plow and a crate of theological pamphlets, envisioned a community bound by what he called “practical grace”, a phrase that still lingers in the soil. Today, Ball’s single traffic light blinks yellow at the intersection of Main and Sycamore, a metronome for the unhurried rhythm of daily life. At the diner near the railroad tracks, booth cushions crackle under the weight of regulars who order scrambled eggs by raising two fingers. The waitress knows whose coffee needs refilling and whose son just made the honor roll. The clatter of cutlery becomes a kind of conversation.

Same day service available. Order your Ball floral delivery and surprise someone today!



On the edge of town, a park with a wooden gazebo hosts Friday concerts where teenagers play fiddles and grandparents sway in lawn chairs. The music rises into the twilight, blending with the scent of honeysuckle and the distant chug of a freight train. Children chase fireflies, their laughter trailing behind them like kites. There is no digital glow here, no algorithmic urgency, only the raw, unmediated present. A man in overalls leans against a pickup truck and describes the weather as “good for growing,” which could mean anything.

Ball’s library occupies a converted Victorian house, its shelves bowing under the weight of detective novels and agricultural manuals. The librarian, a woman with a perm like cumulus clouds, once spent three hours helping a third grader find a book on owls. Behind the building, a community garden grows tomatoes so red they seem to vibrate. A sign on the gate says, “Take What You Need, Leave What You Can,” and the soil here is dark and rich, as if the earth itself is trying to give something back.

The schoolhouse, a redbrick relic from 1912, still graduates a dozen seniors each spring. Their faces beam from the front page of the Ball Bulletin, the local paper that prints birth announcements, obituaries, and recipes on the same page, as if to suggest the arc of a life can be measured in potlucks. The teacher who taught algebra here for forty years retired last June but still comes to football games, where she cheers louder than anyone.

To drive through Ball is to witness a paradox: a town that exists almost defiantly outside the modern economy’s logic, yet thrives by a different calculus. The hardware store survives because the owner repairs lawnmowers for free. The pharmacy delivers prescriptions by bicycle. The lone factory, which makes hinges, has outlasted four recessions. People here speak of “making do” not as compromise but as art.

What Ball lacks in grandeur it replaces with a texture so dense with care it becomes almost visible. Laundry flaps on clotheslines like prayer flags. Porch swings creak in harmony. At dusk, the streets empty as families gather around tables where grace is still sometimes said, not out of obligation, but gratitude. The stars overhead are not the dim, anemic specks of cities but a riot of light, a reminder that smallness can be its own kind of infinity.

You could call Ball a relic, a postcard, a place time forgot. But spend an afternoon here, and you might notice something: the way the wind carries the smell of rain before it arrives, or the fact that every dog on Maple Street knows its name. This is not nostalgia. It’s something harder to name, a quality that resists abstraction. Ball, Illinois, persists. It endures. It insists, quietly, without fanfare, that some bonds are too vital to dissolve.