Flower delivery to Fredericksfield goes right out to the cane farms south of Home Hill, and a weekday order placed before 2pm arrives the same day. Later than that, just pick the day you want at checkout. Our reviews sit on Feefo, where we can't edit or delete a word. Choose the Natives Flowers With A Vase for a birthday or the Gorgeous Whites Bunch for sympathy from our range below, or call us for a yarn with one of our friendly, Australian-based team.
Bunch or arrangement? What suits a Fredericksfield farmhouse
The vase is the one part of a bunch the florist never gets to choose. A properly made hand-tied bunch has its stems spiralled round one binding point, so they splay at the base and the bunch stands up on its own. At Salt in Kingscliff I learned to tie that point firm for exactly this reason, because once it leaves the shop the bunch goes into whatever's in the cupboard. A mixing bowl lets the stems fall outwards and the bunch opens flat. A jar that's too narrow crushes them together, all fighting for the same water.
A warm farmhouse kitchen makes flowers drink harder, so fill the vase deep and change the water every two days. If you've no idea what's in their cupboard, send an arrangement that brings its own vase or foam and the question never comes up.
Birthdays and funerals are why most people send flowers to Fredericksfield, with anniversary flowers and the odd milestone at the club in between. Most addresses here are a house on a cane farm, so the notes do a lot of the work.
You've got a date, a road and a surname. That's most of an order. Birthday flowers for Mum ordered before 2pm on a weekday go out that day, and the driver works to the road number, so add a mobile in case she's out in the paddock.
Anna's call: Daisies and gerberas are the cheerful birthday flowers, and they want a straight-sided vase that holds them upright. 3 Gerberas In A Vase brings its own.
Someone from a farm family has died and the house will be full for days. Send the tribute to the service, with the funeral director and the start time in the notes, and our florist aims to have it there before anyone arrives. Funeral flowers first, then a smaller bunch to the house a week on, once the visitors have gone. On the card, "Thinking of you all" is enough.
Lilies open one bud after another, so a bunch of sympathy lilies sent to the house still has buds opening days after it arrives. Pinch the orange anthers off as each one opens and nothing gets on the good tablecloth.
In 2008 I took a 70th birthday arrangement to the clubhouse at Murwillumbah Golf Club. The birthday man was out on the back nine. I stood at the bar holding a vase of lilies for forty minutes and got asked twice whether I was in the raffle. He loved them. I still don't play golf.
For a 70th or a presentation night at Home Hill Golf Club on Iona Road, put the organiser's name and the start time in the notes, and the celebration flowers go straight to them.
An arrangement in foam suits a clubhouse table, because nobody at a function goes hunting for a vase. Aircon dries the air out, so sit it away from the vent or the softer petals start to droop before the speeches.
Plenty of orders don't fit a heading. Nobody has said what they like, and you're not going to ring and ask.
Natives Flowers With A Vase, and the vase comes with it. Leucadendron, the backbone of most native flowers, is technically foliage with coloured bracts, which is why it shrugs off the heat. In my experience it goes close to a fortnight. The protea is the thirsty one. Check the water when you put the kettle on.
Or browse by colour and occasion
Their birthday is today? It can still be today.
Shop Birthday Flowers2pm weekdays, to give the florist time to build it and make the run out.
10am Saturday, a shorter day for our florists.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
The number on the road (Oats Road, Linton Road, Fredericksfield Road) and a mobile. For the golf club, a contact name.
Whoever's home. If nobody is, in our experience the florist tends to leave it in the shade, or wherever you name in the notes. Order this morning and it's on today's run.
Once you've paid, an email confirms it, and our partner florist in the Burdekin builds it on the day you picked. Changes go to [email protected]. If something's wrong when it lands, ring 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays or from 10am Saturday, and one of our team gets a photo from the florist the same day. Then we fix it.
From June until late in the year the mills are crushing, and on a cane farm the harvester runs till dark, so if your person hasn't rung by tea time, that's normal (they're probably asleep on the couch). When one went wrong out that way in my years on the phones, it was usually the hour: flowers at three, party at lunch. If there's a lunch, say so in the notes and the florist knows to go early.
ABN: 17 830 858 659