Edge Hill is a same-day suburb for us: order before 2pm on a weekday, or 10am Saturday, and the flowers are delivered today. They can go to a house, a workplace, or a classroom at Edge Hill State School (put the teacher's name and class in the notes). Any later, choose the day at checkout. Pick the Blush Pinks Arrangement With Chocolates for a birthday or the Gorgeous White Arrangement for sympathy, and buy online in minutes; our 24,000+ Feefo reviews are ones we can't edit or delete. Or call us, and one of our friendly, helpful, Australian-based team will sort it with you.
Choosing flowers for an Edge Hill house, and where they should sit
Any colour works for an Edge Hill house; where the vase sits decides how long it looks good. A lot of these houses are old Queenslanders built around the verandah, and that is where a good bunch tends to end up. Sunlight breaks down the pigments behind reds and purples (anthocyanins), and this far north a red bunch in the afternoon sun can pink out in a couple of days while the leaves still look perfect.
I watched a bucket of red roses by a shop window in Kingscliff go the colour of fairy floss by the Friday. Inside, bright but out of direct sun, reds hold beautifully.
Here is how birthday, get well and sympathy orders work for Edge Hill, and every one can go out today as one of our hand-tied bunches or in a vase.
It's their birthday, you're in another city, and you've no idea which door they actually use. Kirra Hill, Coolangatta, 2008: I carried a vase up twenty-odd front stairs with Asha on my hip, knocked for ages, and the birthday girl was underneath the whole time hanging out washing, quite sure I was selling something.
Edge Hill has plenty of those houses, so if downstairs or the side stairs is the real way in, say so in the notes. Any of our birthday flowers can go out today.
Anna's call: bring a deep red bunch inside, off the verandah, and it keeps its colour.
They're in Cairns Hospital and all you have is a ward number off a text. If they'll be home in a day or two, send it to the house instead. For the hospital, put their full name and ward in the notes; in our experience reception on the ward takes them and the staff carry them through. Get well and hospital flowers both go out same day, and "Get well soon. The couch misses you." covers the card.
3 Gerberas In A Vase suits a shared room: no scent to speak of and no pollen to bother the next bed. Fresh water every couple of days keeps the hollow stems standing.
Someone's gone, you heard it second-hand, and there's no word yet on the funeral. Flowers for the service go through the funeral director; the family home is for the week after, when the visitors thin out. A bunch is a small thing next to a funeral, and it's still there on Thursday when everyone has gone home. "We're thinking of you all" is enough on the card. Our sympathy flowers suit either address, and there is a range made for the family home.
Whites, creams and soft greens sit quietly in a grieving house; save the brights for a birthday. The Gorgeous Whites Bunch keeps to that palette.
A new job, a rough fortnight, or a reason you'd rather not spell out on a card. None of it needs a category. Anna has a view on this one.
Let the florist choose. When I had no theme to match, I put together whatever looked best in the buckets that morning, and those were the bunches I was proudest of. A Florist's Choice Bunch gives the florist that same freedom.
Other ways to find the right bunch
Order before 2pm on a weekday and the birthday flowers reach Edge Hill this afternoon.
Send Birthday Flowers Today2pm weekdays for same day, which leaves the afternoon to build and deliver it.
10am Saturday, because it's a shorter day.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
Upstairs or downstairs, and which stairs. A unit number in the newer blocks. For the hospital, full name and ward; for the school, the teacher's name and class. A mobile, always.
Whoever is home, or a shady spot you name in the notes. At the hospital, the ward reception; at the school, the office. Order before the cutoff and it goes out today.
After you pay, a confirmation email lands and then it goes quiet, which feels longer than it is. Their end can go quiet too, and that is normal; people ring once the kids are in bed, or send a photo a week later with the flowers still going.
One of our partner florists near Edge Hill builds it that day and runs it out. If something is wrong when it arrives, ring the team. We get a photo from the florist the same day and fix it. In our phone years, the orders that went sideways were nearly always a block of units with no unit number. Edge Hill has more of those blocks than it used to.
To check on an order or change it, call our team on 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays and Saturday mornings, or email [email protected].
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