Order before 2pm on a weekday, or before 10am on a Saturday, and the flowers are delivered in Fraser today. Later than that, pick any date at checkout. For a house, add a mobile number to the notes; for Fraser Primary on Tillyard Drive, add the teacher's name. Choose the Lovely Lilac & Lime Bunch below and buy online in minutes, or call us and one of our friendly, Australian-based team will place the order with you.
A gerbera bunch lasts longest on a Fraser kitchen bench when the water stays clean.
A gerbera stem is hollow and folds at the neck once bacteria clog the base. I learnt that at Salt in Kingscliff, watching the stems in one bucket fold, one after another. In a rinsed vase with the water changed every couple of days, in a cool Canberra house, a gerbera bunch tends to stand for a week to ten days.
If a neck does bend, recut two centimetres at an angle and stand the stem in shallow warm water for an hour. Caught early, it often comes back.
About ninety-six percent of Fraser's homes were houses at the 2021 Census, so most orders end on a front step. Below are birthdays, thank-yous, funerals and hospital stays, with what the notes need for each. If they love the bush, start with our native flowers.
Mum's turning seventy in a house you could draw from memory and you're a flight away, which feels strange on the day (nobody warns you). Put a mobile number in the notes, and say which door the family uses.
The Australian Natives Bunch has been our bestseller since around 2013, and it's the one I'd send.
Anna's tip: if there's banksia or leucadendron in the bunch, keep them once the soft stems have gone. Both dry on a shelf for months.
A teacher has put up with your child since February, and a card in the school bag no longer feels like enough. Fraser Primary runs from preschool to Year 6, and in our experience schools take thank-you flowers at the office, so put the teacher's name and year level in the notes.
The 3 Gerberas In A Vase arrive in water, with next to no scent and next to no pollen to mark a desk.
Someone has died, and you're organising flowers between phone calls. The service might be at White Lady Funerals or the Bluegum Chapel at William Cole, both on Nettlefold Street in Belconnen, at St Thomas Aquinas in Charnwood, or at Norwood Park in Mitchell. When I was on the phones, the first thing I asked anyone sending funeral flowers was the start time, so put it in the notes with the funeral director's name. Or send to the family's home. "With love to all of you today" says enough on the card.
Flowers won't make that week any easier, and the family will still remember who sent them. Anna was a florist at Salt in Kingscliff before she joined us, and she has one more thing.
At Salt we timed sympathy work to the hour of the service, so the flowers were at their freshest when the doors opened.
Plenty of orders don't fit the cards above: a stay in hospital, a new house, a neighbour's rotten month. For North Canberra Hospital in Bruce, flowers tend to go to the ward or reception, so put the ward and the patient's full name in the notes.
The Blissful Botanics Arrangement arrives in its own silver cube with the foam already wet, so there is no vase to find. A splash into the foam every few days keeps it drinking.
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Order before 2pm on a weekday and the birthday flowers are there this afternoon.
Shop Bestselling Birthday Flowers2pm on weekdays, so a florist in or close to Fraser can make the order up for the afternoon run.
10am on Saturdays, for the same reason.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
A house: a mobile number and the door the family uses. Fraser Primary: the teacher's name and year level. RFBI Holt Masonic Village on Hardwick Crescent, Holt: the resident's room number. North Canberra Hospital, Bruce: the ward and full name. A service: the funeral director and the start time.
Whoever answers the door takes the flowers in. If nobody is home, our florists tend to ring the mobile in the notes before deciding where to leave them.
For a ward, an office or a house still full of boxes, an arrangement arrives ready to stand.
Once you've ordered, one of our partner florists near Fraser makes the order up and takes it out on the day you picked. A quiet recipient is normal, and it doesn't mean the flowers didn't arrive.
To check on an order, ring 02 8090 0577 or 1300 360 469, the same team on both, 7am to 6pm weekdays and from 10am on Saturdays. To change one, email [email protected]. If something looks wrong when it arrives, send us a photo the same day and we take it from there.
Around 2009 I carried roses to a villa at St Joseph's Village, off Blundell Boulevard in Tweed Heads South. Asha carried the card. The woman sat down to read it, Asha sat beside her, and I stood there holding the roses. Nobody rang the shop to say thanks, and that was fine. Different postcode to Fraser, same job: a step and a card. When a delivery did go wrong in those years, it was nearly always a missing mobile number.
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