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Drysdale Flower Delivery, Same Day Before 2pm

A birthday today, a funeral on Thursday, or nothing more than a Tuesday: order by 2pm on a weekday and the flowers are with them in Drysdale this afternoon. The Bellarine run tends to head out mid-morning, so a ten o'clock order travels with it and a two o'clock order follows. A partner florist builds it on the day, so nothing has spent two days in a courier van. A quarter of this town is over seventy, so plenty of these end at a front desk that wants their full name. Saturday the cutoff is 10am. Not sure what to send, or is the address a new court the map does not know? Ring 1300 360 469.

“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
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The 2pm cutoff

2pm weekdays. The Bellarine goes out as one morning run. Later and it moves to tomorrow.

Where orders land

Four doors, from a porch to a ward 20 km west. Each needs a different note.

Where stems start

Most Victorian stock leaves the Epping market floor before dawn and is in a Bellarine cool room by breakfast.

Who makes it

We have no shop in Drysdale. The order goes to a florist in or near the town.

June is the best month of the year to send flowers down here, and almost nobody does.

Anna, qualified florist | fifteen years on the bench

People send flowers in summer and think of cold as the enemy. On the Bellarine the cold does the work. A June living room stays under twenty degrees, and tulips, ranunculus and stock that give a week in a warm room hold ten to fourteen days.

Aged care arrives at a desk before it reaches a room, and there the constraint is furniture. A bedside table in a shared room is forty centimetres, so send a box that carries its own water. Keep the scent down. One resident's oriental lilies become the whole room's by lunchtime, and in a dementia unit send what the resident would know from her own garden in 1972.

Where Drysdale Orders Actually Land

What each Drysdale address needs from you

Road distances from the High Street roundabout. Receiving practice as our florists find it.

Where it goes
When it lands
Who takes it
Put this in the notes
A house in town0 to 3 km
LandsThat afternoon
Takes itWhoever is home
NotesWhether they can leave it, and where.
Regis, Wyndham Street1 km
LandsMid-morning
Takes itReception, then staff
NotesTheir full name and the room number.
A ward in Geelong20 km
LandsSame day, own run
Takes itMain reception
NotesFull name and ward. Wait until they have one.
Cemetery, Oakden Road3 km
LandsNot a delivery
Takes itNobody. No office.
NotesSend to the family home. They carry it in.

The delivery note decides which of these happens. Worth twenty seconds.

What to Send to Drysdale

Three situations cover most of what comes here, and native stems survive all three doorsteps.

Where Sympathy Flowers Actually Go in Drysdale

You are sorting flowers for a service you may not reach. Service flowers go to the funeral director with the deceased's name and the date. Condolence flowers go to the house, inside three days. Reverse the two and the family carry a wreath home.

Anna, qualified florist

Wreaths and sheaves are built flat on one side so they stand against a coffin. With no religion the biggest group here, ask the family what she grew before defaulting to white.

Nobody Home at Ten, Which Is Normal Here

Retired residents here are out by ten, at the bowls or on the rail trail. Deep porches work if the delivery notes carry a safe place. Most thinking of you orders into Drysdale come from Melbourne.

Skip hydrangeas on a hot northerly. Ten days indoors from March to November, four on an unshaded January porch. Chrysanthemums do not care where they sit.

The Eightieth Birthday Order

Eightieth and ninetieth birthdays are a standing order in a town with 254 residents over eighty-five. I did four years of aged care drops out of Kingscliff: mid-morning, before the lunch trays. Anna on what survives in the room.

Whatever you send gets carried out to the lounge for the photograph and back. Gerberas snap at the neck on that trip unless the florist wires them.

Order before 2pm and it is with them this afternoon.

See the arrangements

Still deciding?

No occasion attached, or none that fits. Fine.

For this town I send natives nine times in ten. Banksia, kangaroo paw, eucalyptus. The waxy surfaces ignore a dry northerly and hold a fortnight indoors. Under sixty still buys a real arrangement.

Browse native flowers

Drysdale Delivery Questions, Answered Straight

Mum lives in Drysdale but is in hospital in Geelong. Can you still deliver?

Yes, and it is a separate run twenty kilometres west. A get well order needs her full name, because in our experience staff will not go hunting.

Can you get flowers to a house in Drysdale today?

Yes, in by 2pm. Town and the estates are one pass, so the address does not change the day.

Hand Delivered in Drysdale

Cutoff

2pm weekdays. 10am Saturday.

The local loop

A flat delivey. Drysdale, Clifton Springs, Curlewis and Marcus Hill ride one loop.

Where it stops

Aged care and hospital orders tend to stop at reception.

The one to get right

On Jetty Road and the Curlewis estates, add a landmark: new courts appear faster than the maps. Order before 2pm and it is there this afternoon, door or desk.

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After You Order

An order number comes by email and the job goes out that day. A woman rang me in 2012 about her mother's eightieth in Drysdale. She had not been down from Melbourne in eight months, the trucks were still grinding through High Street then, and all she wanted was the flowers put into her mother's hands.

Siobhan, the other half of this

What people ring about is the silence afterwards. The flowers went at eleven, it is now three, nobody has texted. Nine times out of ten the phone is in another room (my mother, every time). The failure genuinely on us is a substitution nobody flagged.

1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays.

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About the Author

Andrew and Siobhan Thomson, co-founders of Lily's Florist
Co-founder, Lily's Florist

Between 2006 and 2010 I ran the Kingscliff deliveries myself, hundreds of them into hospitals and funeral homes around Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast, Asha in the back for the first two years. A baby in your arms gets you past a busy reception desk.

The network started in 2009 with twenty florists and runs to over eight hundred now. More on the about Lily's Florist page.

Our Kingscliff shop

* The original Kingscliff shop, bought 2006. The brand and network came three years later.