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Shop ByGet Same Day Flowers in Rozelle, Ordered by 2pm Weekdays
Order before 2pm on a weekday, or 10am on a Saturday, and the flowers are at their door in Rozelle today. Choose the Australian Natives Bunch for a birthday or the Gorgeous White Arrangement for a funeral from our same-day range below, and for a bed at Balmain Hospital add the ward and the patient's full name to the notes. Or call us, and one of our friendly, Australian-based team will go through the address and the card with you.
“From start to finish easy to deal with... the flowers were delivered exactly 60 minutes after I placed the order” Mark
“I live in WA and required a Vic flower delivery for a birthday. Panic. They lived up to their promise of same day delivery” Julie
“I made my order at 1.50pm on a Wednesday... my daughter received the flowers that afternoon” Maria
“I ordered late and the flowers were delivered same day... I received a photo from the recipient and they were beautiful” Bee
“I am in Canada... I ordered during NSW night time, my day time. Delivered same day. Still looked fresh after a week” Chris
“I tried ordering from the UK... had no joy at all with another florist. Lily’s came through like champs” John
“I live in England and wanted to send flowers to my daughter... she was over the moon with them” Cheryl
“My go to for interstate floral gift shopping... not a single issue in over 10 years” Marcia
“Always fresh, beautifully arranged and delivered on time. They even write my silly messages on the card” Kelly
“They know the stress of ordering flowers for interstate people when you don’t have the details or times right. They get it” Britta
“A bouquet sent to a friend two days away from a family funeral I could not attend. Thank you for being there when I could not” Julie
“Really grateful for the flowers they put together for my friend’s funeral... easy to pick during a stressful time” Viv
“The flowers I ordered were out of season. Lily’s sent me an email to advise me of this and let me choose again” Dee
“They weren’t home at delivery, so they were very appreciative to get a call letting them know where the flowers would be left” Sara
“Beautiful bouquet that looked exactly like the photo on the website. Perfect gift to send to a patient in hospital” Heeni
“Our very ill friend received her flowers the morning after I ordered them after hours, even though we didn’t know which ward” Geoff
“She especially mentioned the bright pink gerbera in the centre. Perfect size for the shelf at the hospital” Janice
“They made an effort to deliver on the day of my sister’s birthday rather than the day after. The teddy was my hug for her” Liz
“I’ve ordered from several florists in the area over past years and Lily’s has been the best” Kate
“I typed a message for a card in German. The card was handwritten with the words I typed in German. Mum was so happy” Stig
“My mother cried all day. A photo would not do justice, she informed me. Very happy with the outcome” Helen
“Promptly sent to celebrate the birth of my friends’ new baby... a florist I can rely upon” Kathryn
“Ordered for my aunt and uncle’s 60th wedding anniversary. My aunt sent me photos, they were absolutely stunning” Karyn
“They were beautiful, even better than the photo we chose them from. The flowers were so fresh and vibrant” Tina
“Still in great condition, which is fabulous given they were delivered 8 days ago. Still holding shape, and have not wilted” Peter
“It is now 9 days later and the rose is still beautiful and has not lost a single petal” Edel
“Recipient said flowers were beautiful and still very good 10 days later. Delivery person was very polite” Denise
“I do not like to order online so will only do phone orders. I spoke to Louisa, who was friendly and helpful” Toni
“The staff member was so helpful to me over the phone, I think her name was April. My sister was overjoyed” Thalia
“You didn’t have the flowers I selected, so you contacted me to advise. The replacement was loved by the recipient” David
“I was very impressed that you communicated about the different flowers being changed. They arrived on time” Serena
“I was concerned the gift would not reach its destination, being rural. It arrived within the promised time” Robby
“Great care shown to ensure they were delivered to the correct student in a large UQ College” Nicole
“A special thankyou to the delivery man for ringing my daughter to let her know he had put the flowers in the shade” Suzette
Same-day flowers for a Rozelle flat: the water inside an arrangement goes off before the flowers do
Anna, qualified florist | on the water you can't see
Nearly three in four Rozelle homes are a terrace, townhouse or flat, so an arrangement that arrives ready to sit on a bench is the easy order: nobody has to find a vase. Inside, most are built in a block of foam, soaked at the florist. After a few days that water goes stagnant, the stem bases turn slimy, and the heads drop before they should.
I first saw it at Salt in Kingscliff: an arrangement that looked perfect from above and smelled swampy underneath. Draw the old water out with a baster or a sports bottle, refill every few days, and the stems keep drinking.
Birthdays, Babies and Funerals in Rozelle
Birthday, new baby, funeral or none of those: each needs something different in the notes, and a ready-made arrangement is the easy order for a flat.
A Saturday Birthday Means the Street Is at the Market
It's their birthday, you can't be there, and it falls on a Saturday. A lot of Rozelle spends the morning at the market at Rozelle Public School on Darling Street (the bacon and egg roll there is the best I've had anywhere), so put a mobile number and a safe spot, the porch or a neighbour, in the notes. Our bestselling birthday flowers suit a terrace or a unit.
Anna's tip: natives take a spell on a porch in their stride, where soft-petalled stems want the shade.
If the Baby Is Still at RPA, Here Is What to Send
The baby is here and you are nowhere near Missenden Road. If mum is still in RPA Women and Babies, put the ward and her full name in the notes; if she might be home by delivery, send to the house with 'baby asleep, knock softly'. See our new baby flowers. New parents have no free hands, and I know that feeling: in 2008 I took lilies to Noble Lakeside Park, near our Marine Parade shop, with Asha, nine months old, in the car. Pollen down the shirt, water up the wrist, and a wail that brought the residents to the glass.
For a new baby I would go soft pinks and gerberas, nothing that sheds and nothing that perfumes the room. The Beautiful Pastels Bunch sits in that palette.
The Funeral Director Knows Where the Flowers Go
You have a name, a date and a funeral notice you have read twice. In our experience the venue and the time come from the funeral director, and the notice names which one: if it says Mannings on Victoria Road, that is the call to make. Just over half of Rozelle records no religion on the census and about one in five records Catholic, so the service may be a Mass at St Joseph's on Gordon Street or a celebration of life somewhere with no altar. Flowers feel like too little for a funeral, and a house with none feels emptier than one with a bunch on the table: families tend to send a sheath or wreath for the service and flowers for the house after. Try 'No words for this one. Thinking of you all.'
Anna, on the sympathy palette
White, cream and soft green do not compete with the room, so I would steer a nervous buyer to the White Lily & Rose Sheath. If the notice says celebration of life, or the family asked for colour, go with colour.
What to Send When None of These Fit?
You do not need an occasion to send flowers. A teacher at Rozelle Public School on the last day of term, a neighbour who minded the dog, a friend who has had a rough week: all of them fit here, and a thank-you bunch is easy to get right.
Anna has a pick for those: the Colourful Bunch Including Chocolates. The chocolates do the thanking, and the bunch stands happily in a jar.
More ways to say it
Order before 2pm on a weekday and the birthday flowers go out today.
Shop Same-Day Birthday FlowersCut-Offs, Wards and What to Put in the Notes
The cut-offs
2pm on weekdays is the last point a florist can make it up and reach the street that afternoon. Saturdays it is 10am, because the florists' day is shorter. No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
What the notes need
Hospital: the ward and full name (Balmain Hospital, Booth Street, or RPA, Camperdown). Funeral: surname, venue and time (St Joseph's, Gordon Street, or wherever Mannings Funerals on Victoria Road has arranged it). Unit: the number and a mobile.
Who receives it
In our experience hospital reception logs the flowers and passes them on, and a funeral venue takes them before the service. If nobody is home, a neighbour or a named spot works. Order by 2pm and the flowers are with them this afternoon.
Nobody Rings to Say Thanks, and That's Normal
After you pay, the order goes to a florist in or close to Rozelle, who makes it up for the date you picked. To change anything, email [email protected] or ring 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm on weekdays.
Siobhan, on the quiet after a delivery
Mostly nobody rings to say it arrived, and that's fine. A new mum is asleep, someone on a ward has their phone in a drawer, a family the day after a funeral has forty other calls to make (I took enough calls between 2006 and early 2011 to know that silence usually means it landed). What does go sideways is a baby who has gone home before the flowers reach the ward, so if you don't know the date, send to the house. Quiet is just a vase on a windowsill.
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