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Shop ByGet Same Day Flowers to Georgetown NSW, Home or on Shift
Today works. Order before 2pm on a weekday, or 10am Saturday, and flowers are hand-delivered the same afternoon to a house in Georgetown, Newcastle, or to their work. Lily's Florist has been delivering here since 2009. For someone in Calvary Mater, next door in Waratah, just add their ward to the notes. Pick the Australian Natives Bunch, our bestseller, or anything from our same-day range below. Or call us. One of our friendly, Australian-based team will help you word the card.
“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
From Georgetown to a shared ward or room, send flowers that keep the scent down
Anna, qualified florist | on scent, pollen and the bed next door
One oriental lily fills a room, and the perfume builds as each bud opens. In a house, that's the gift. In a shared ward or a two-bed aged-care room, the person behind the curtain gets it too. Go gerberas or chrysanthemums there; neither has a scent to speak of.
Lilies going to a house? Pinch the orange anthers off as each flower opens. Wet pollen brushes away. Dry pollen bonds to a shirt, and you lift it with sticky tape, never a wipe. I ruined a good apron learning that in North Carolina. The bud that catches people is the one that opens on day three, after the first anthers have been pinched and everyone's stopped looking.
Three Reasons People Send Flowers Into Georgetown
Across our network, birthdays come first and sympathy second. With Calvary Mater on Edith Street in Waratah, get-well orders here tend to be hospital flowers for a ward desk.
Birthday Flowers: the House, or Their Work
It's a birthday, and you want the flowers there on the day. The house is the safe bet, but check the roster first: hospitals employ more Georgetown residents than any other industry (2021 Census), so the birthday may well land on a shift at the Mater or John Hunter Hospital. If it does, send it home with a shady spot named in the notes, or to work if they'd enjoy the fuss. In 2008 I took red roses up to John Flynn in Tugun for a nurse's birthday. She was in theatre till three, so they sat on the nurses' station and half the floor read the card before she did. She loved them. She heard about them for a week.
Choose from our birthday flowers for a friend or the best-selling birthday flowers.
Anna's call: send it already standing in water. A wrapped bunch sits on the bench until somebody finds scissors and a vase. Simply Stylish With Chocolates & Vase arrives in its own vase.
Give the Ward Name for Hospital Flowers at Calvary Mater
You've got their ward name off a text and you can't get there. For Calvary Mater, that's enough: put their full name and the ward in the notes, and in our experience the flowers go to the ward desk and the staff take them through. If they're in the Mater's hospice, flowers are welcome there, from what our florists tell us. On a cancer ward, ask the family before you send. Get well flowers suit a ward, thinking of you flowers the hospice. On the card, something like Thinking of you every day.
Gerberas suit a shared ward: no scent for the next bed and no pollen on the sheets. 3 Gerberas In A Vase is the one I'd pick.
Funeral Flowers for a Morning Service Go the Day Before
The notice says Corpus Christi on Platt Street, Waratah, or the White Lady Funerals chapel on Maitland Road, Mayfield. Put the funeral director and start time in the notes, and order the day before a morning service. If it goes on to Sandgate Cemetery, say so, and the florist builds for the grass: a wreath or sheath lies flat, where a tall vase tends to tip. Flowers won't change what's happened, and the family still reads every card. Send a wreath or sheath or other funeral flowers to the service, and sympathy flowers for the home a day or two later. For the card: Thinking of you all.
Anna, on colour for a service
Whites and creams sit quietly in a church or chapel already full of flowers. A bright bunch is the one every eye goes to. If the family has asked for colour, send colour.
Stuck on What to Send?
Plenty of orders don't fit a heading. A thank-you to the neighbour who fed the cat, say, or no reason at all. Anna has a pick for this one.
The Australian Native Arrangement sits in foam, so there's no vase to find, it's low on scent, and the woody stems run for weeks. Top the foam up every two or three days, pouring slowly near the base. Foam dries from the top down, so the highest stems go first if you forget. Or browse all our native flowers.
More ways to choose
Order before 2pm on a weekday and the flowers are on the ward desk this afternoon.
Send Get Well FlowersSame-Day Cutoffs, Ward Names and Who Takes It
When to order
2pm on weekdays leaves the florist time to make the flowers and get them out that afternoon. 10am Saturday, because most florists close early that day. Order later and you choose the day at checkout.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
What the notes need
Calvary Mater: their full name and ward, or the hospice. Maroba on Edith Street or Calvary St Martin de Porres, both in Waratah: the room number. A funeral: the director and start time. A house: a mobile number.
Who takes it
In our experience, the ward desk at the Mater, reception at the aged-care homes, and the funeral director at White Lady or wherever the service is. At a house, whoever's in, or a shady spot you name in the notes. Order before 2pm on a weekday and it's there this afternoon.
If You Hear Nothing Back, That's Normal
A confirmation email comes as soon as the order goes through. To change the card, the date or the address, email [email protected] or call 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays. If something's wrong when it arrives, get a photo to us that day so we can take it up with the florist.
Siobhan, on hospital weeks and quiet phones
I was on the phones from 2006 to February 2011, and the question I heard most was "did they even get there?" Almost always, they had. Someone in a hospital bed isn't texting thank-yous (nobody is, believe me), and a family in the week of a funeral is the same. And if a flower the florist planned on isn't in that morning, you'll get an email before anything big is swapped, which I know is the last thing you want when you just need it done. Give it a day.
Sometimes the first you hear is a photo from the person who got them.
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