Flowers can reach a Corindi Beach house or holiday cabin today on orders in before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on a Saturday, or any later date you pick at checkout. At Reflections Holiday Park on Pacific Street, add the cabin or site number and a mobile to the notes. For a house, our Colourful Bunch Including Chocolates below is a Corindi Beach favourite lately. Order it online, or call us and our friendly, helpful, Australian-based team will help with the card.
In a Corindi Beach Holiday House, the Vase Has a Big Say in How Long a Bunch Lasts
The vase matters more than people expect. A vase that's too wide lets the stems splay out to the rim, so the heads flop within a day or 2. A narrow vase jams them together fighting for the same water, and the stems in the middle are the first to go.
Holiday houses are where I'd worry most, as the vase is usually whatever came with the place. I'd want the flowers about 1.5 times the height of the vase, with a little room around the stems at the neck. I learned that at the bench after a good bunch of lisianthus wilted from the middle out in a jar far too narrow for it.
The first 3 cards cover a birthday, a parent who's moved up the coast and a partner, and each ends with a line from Anna on the stems or the vase. Our native flowers suit a beach house, whatever the reason you're sending.
If the birthday is today and you won't be there, whatever turns up has to do the job for you. Chocolates get added as an extra to Corindi Beach orders more often than in any other town we've looked at, and our Colourful Bunch Including Chocolates comes with a box built in. Our birthday flowers can take them at checkout too.
Siobhan and I were still doing our own deliveries in 2008 when a man rang our Marine Parade shop in Kingscliff from Melbourne for his mum's 70th at Hastings Point, and asked me to put a box of chocolates in with the bunch. I took a box off our own shelf and drove it up Tweed Coast Road, and she had it open on the front step before I'd got back to the car. Hastings Point is a beach village a lot like Corindi Beach, where plenty of people spend the morning on the sand, so put a mobile in the notes in case your person is out for a swim.
Anna: The carnations and statice in a mixed bunch are the tough stems, and I always found they kept going for days after the roses had opened fully.
A bunch from you won't fill the gap of not being there, but it sits on their table all week, which a phone call doesn't. May is the busiest month for Corindi Beach orders because of Mother's Day, but our thinking of you flowers don't need a date. "Thinking of you. Talk Sunday." is plenty for the card.
If you're not sure of their street number, ring them first with a made-up reason, because in our experience a missing number is what usually holds an order like this up. Our pink flowers suit most mums.
A pink rose with its green sepals folded right back has stored enough sugar to open, so it keeps opening through the week. The tight green buds look fresher on the day, but I learned at the bench that they can sit closed for days and then drop.
If it's for your partner, red roses say it with the least explaining. Our Single Wrapped Red Rose and 3 Wrapped Red Roses go to the house or a workplace, and there's more in our love and romance flowers and the full roses range.
A rose at work makes a small moment in front of the whole office, while a rose left at the house is just as lovely but nobody sees it arrive. Either way I'd expect 7 to 10 days from the roses in clean water in a tall glass, as a wide vase lets the stems lean.
Plenty of orders don't fit a heading. Corindi Beach orders are spread across a lot of different designs, and the 3 that come up most lately are our Colourful Bunch Including Chocolates, the Florists Choice Birthday Bunch and the Australian Natives Bunch. Across all Corindi Beach orders, nearly 1 in 3 go in soft pinks, pastels or lilac.
Anna's pick, if soft colours are where you're leaning: our Pastel Bunch With Vase, as it arrives in its own glass vase, so nobody at a holiday house is relying on whatever came with the place. The pink lisianthus and waxflower in it are the long stayers, and I'd expect them to hold well after the gerberas have finished.
More ways to choose
Almost every Corindi Beach order goes as a bunch, so if it's headed for a holiday house, add a vase at checkout. It can still be with them today if it's in before 2pm on a weekday.
Shop Flower BunchesSame day on orders in before 2pm on a weekday, which gives our partner florist in the area time to make them up and get them to Corindi Beach. Saturday's cutoff is 10am, as the florist works a shorter day. No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
Roughly 2 in 5 Corindi Beach orders are for the same day, and most of the rest for the next. Phone orders go to our team on 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays and 7am to 10am Saturdays.
For a house, the street number, a mobile and a shady spot to leave the flowers if nobody's home. At Reflections Holiday Park on Pacific Street, their full name, the cabin or site number and a mobile.
At a house, whoever answers, or the shady spot you named if nobody does. At a holiday park, in our experience the office tends to take them in and let the guest know. The cabin number in the notes is how the office knows whose flowers they are.
Our partner florist makes the flowers up on the day and takes them out to Corindi Beach. You don't need to chase it, but if you'd like to know it got there, or something isn't right, ring the team or email [email protected] and we'll ask the florist for a photo the same day.
Nearly 1 in 5 Corindi Beach orders come in over the phone, and I reckon that's no surprise. When I was on the phones, from 2006 until Ivy came along in 2011, most callers wanted help with the card, or wanted to check the address was right before they paid. A lot of them were ordering for a parent and just wanted to hear a person say the flowers would get there. If your person doesn't call you the day the flowers arrive, that's normal, and from what I saw the call usually comes the next morning, once they've had a proper look.
If the order needs changing, email the details to [email protected] so the change is in writing for the florist.
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