Flowers can be delivered anywhere in Earlville today. Order before 2pm on a weekday, or 10am Saturday, and they arrive this afternoon at their house, their villa, or their counter at Earlville Shopping Centre (add the shop name in the notes). Our Feefo reviews can't be edited or deleted, even by us. Pick the Rose, Gerbera & Lilies Bunch for a birthday, or the Florists Choice Sympathy Bunch for a loss from our range below, and pay securely online. Or call us, tell one of our friendly Australian-based team who it's for, and let them do the typing.
Why lilies keep going in a warm Earlville house
Lilies are one of the best buys for a warm Earlville house. Warm air opens the buds sooner than it would down south, but each stem carries several, so the vase keeps renewing for about four days to a week, in my experience. The catch is the anthers, which ripen as fast as the buds open.
Pinch each one off with a tissue as a bloom opens. At the bench at Salt, in Kingscliff, I learned that next morning is too late: dry pollen bonds to fabric, so lift any spill with sticky tape and never wipe.
A birthday, a death in the family, a thank-you at work: here is how each one lands in Earlville. Any of our flower bunches above can go out same day.
It's their birthday and you won't be at the table. At a house, a mobile in the notes covers the knock nobody answers (they're probably at the shops). At a villa in The Parks on Telford Street or Heritage Gardens on Barr Street, the villa number gets the flowers to the right front door. A 70th or an 80th goes the same way.
Lilies work well here, anthers pinched as each one opens. The buds come on through the week, so the vase looks different on Thursday than it did on Monday.
She's on shift at Earlville Shopping Centre, the old Stockland, on her birthday, or the team there has earned a thank-you. Put the shop's name, her full name and a mobile in the notes; in a centre that size, the shop name is what finds the right counter. A birthday bunch for a friend or our celebration flowers go the same way.
Anna's pick: an arrangement. It sits in its own water, and nobody on a shift has time to hunt for a vase.
Someone has died and you can't be there. Flowers can't be there in your place, and they're still the first thing the family sees walking in. In our experience, flowers for the service go through the funeral director, and flowers for the family go to the house, where our sympathy flowers for home suit best.
I learned why the director matters the hard way. December 2006, pregnant with Asha, I carried a sheaf from our Marine Parade shop to St Anthony's on Pearl Street an hour early, found it locked, and sat on the steps with it across my knees until the director arrived. Two people offered me their condolences.
If the service is at Our Lady Help of Christians, 18 Balaclava Road, the church shares that address with the parish school, so write "church", the time and the director's name in the notes with any of our funeral flowers. "Thinking of you all today" is plenty for the card.
Too early and a sheaf or wreath goes soft in a back room; too late and it misses the Mass. The florists I worked with rang the funeral director for the window.
Not every order has a heading: a new job, a rotten week, a sister you haven't rung since Easter.
Anna, if you're stuck: the Florist's Choice Bunch. With no theme to match, a florist can build it around the best stems in the cooler that day.
Or shop by what they love
In before 2pm on a weekday and it can be in Earlville this afternoon.
Shop Birthday Flowers2pm weekdays, so there is time to make it and get it out that afternoon.
10am Saturday, a shorter morning run.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
After that, choose any date at checkout.
Villa: the village and villa number. Shopping centre: the shop and their full name. Church: the word church, the service time and the funeral director. House: a mobile.
At a villa, usually the resident; in our experience a neighbour will often take them in if nobody is home, so say in the notes if that suits. At a shop, whoever is on the counter. Order this morning and it is delivered today.
Not seeing the flowers is the hard bit of sending from somewhere else. If your mum doesn't ring straight away, that's normal (I took thousands of those worried calls, and it was usually because she was busy showing the neighbours first). To check, call 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays and Saturday mornings, or email [email protected].
The order lands, we confirm it by email, a partner florist near Earlville builds it, and a driver takes it out on the day you picked. If it arrives wrong, email a photo to the update address the same day and we fix it with the florist. The shopping centre orders that come unstuck nearly always have no shop name on them. Big centre. Lilies can do a lot of laps.
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