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Glenvale Flower Delivery Today, Birthday or Church Service

Flower delivery to Glenvale is same day when you order before 2pm on a weekday; after that, you choose the day at checkout. Sending to a resident at Ozcare on Greenwattle Street? Put their full name and wing in the notes. For a birthday at the house there's the Birthday Package Special, and for a service the White Funeral Wreath, both in our same-day range below and quick to buy online. Or call us, and one of our friendly, Australian-based team will help you word the card.

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“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
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Sending Flowers to a Glenvale House, Nursery or Care Room? An Arrangement Looks After Itself

Anna, qualified florist | trained in North Carolina, bench years at Salt, Kingscliff

Send an arrangement anywhere nobody has time to fuss: a house with a brand-new baby, or a room in aged care. It sits in wet foam inside its own box or vase and drinks for days with nobody touching it. A wrapped bunch is lovely where a vase is ready and someone has five spare minutes. A new mum hasn't got them, and neither has a carer with a whole wing.

Carnations and chrysanthemums go about a fortnight in foam in a cool room, in my experience. Save the scented lilies for a house with a vase waiting. It took me a season at Salt in Kingscliff to stop putting together bunches for rooms with nowhere to stand them.

A Nursery on One Street, a Care Room on the Next

Glenvale's median age was 33 at the 2021 Census, and the suburb also has three aged care homes. So birthday flowers here could be headed for a nursery or a care room, and each wants something different.

New Baby Flowers for the Ward or the First Week Home

The photo has come through and you can't get there to hold her. Send to their place, or to maternity at Toowoomba Hospital or St Vincent's Private, where in our experience the front desk takes new baby flowers and staff carry them up. Mums are often home within a day or two, so check first. Use the parents' names in the notes. Nobody at the desk knows who Matilda is yet.

Anna's pick: the Blue Mist Including Vase & Chocolates. The vase comes with it, so nobody goes hunting for one, and the chocolates are for the 3am feed.

Ninety This Week, at Ozcare, Bupa or Glenvale Villas

Gran turns ninety on Thursday. If she's at Ozcare on Greenwattle Street, Bupa Glenvale on McDougall Street or Glenvale Villas on Hursley Road, put the home, her wing and her full name in the notes. Reception usually takes the 90th birthday flowers and a carer walks them through.

At Feros Village in Byron Bay, in 2008, I carried in an arrangement from the Kingscliff shop for a woman turning ninety and found four bunches already on her windowsill: in a vase, a water jug and an old pickled-onion jar. Mine was the only one sitting in its own foam. A carer said "thank God" before the birthday girl said anything. I took the credit.

Anna, on dementia wings: go familiar. Roses and daisies, the flowers they would have grown, built low so nothing tips.

Funeral Flowers Go to the Church First, the House After

The notice came through on the family group chat. Lifeworks Uniting Church on Boundary Street holds funerals inside Glenvale; others run from a chapel in town or at Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery. Copy the place and start time into the notes and the florist aims to have the wreath or sheath there before the family, with flowers for the house a week later. "Remembering him with you today" is enough for the card.

Anna, on a sheath at a Uniting service

White is the standard at a Uniting service, and a Red Rose Sheath from a husband or wife sits right there too. The sheath goes home with the family afterwards. Cut the binding and the roses give another four or five days in water at home.

Nothing Above Quite Fits?

Plenty of orders have no occasion at all: a new job, a rotten week, a sister you haven't rung since winter. Just because flowers need no explaining. If you want a steer, the Australian Natives Bunch is our biggest seller.

Natives are woody and forgive water nobody tops up. If there's leucadendron in the bunch, stand it in a dry jar when the soft stems finish and it holds its colour for months. The rest of the native flowers work the same way.

More ways to browse

An arrangement ordered before 2pm on a weekday is in the room this afternoon.

Shop Arrangements That Bring Their Own Water

If It Has to Land Today, Order Before 2pm

When to order

Before 2pm on a weekday for same day, so it makes the afternoon run. Before 10am Saturday, as most florists close around lunchtime. No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day. After that, you pick the day at checkout.

What the notes need

Ozcare, Bupa Glenvale or Glenvale Villas: full name, and the wing or villa number. Toowoomba Hospital or St Vincent's: the ward. Lifeworks Uniting, or a chapel such as Hiram Philp on Herries Street: the service time. Anywhere else: the number, and the side gate if that's the way in.

Who takes it

Care home or hospital: reception, then staff carry it in. Church: in our experience, the funeral director. House: whoever answers, or if nobody does, a shady spot and a call to you. Order now and it's built today.

Funeral Flowers for a Church or Chapel

The Quiet After an Order Is Usually Good News

Once you've paid, our partner florist in Toowoomba builds it that day and drives it out to Glenvale. At a care home or hospital, our part ends at reception.

To change anything, email [email protected]. To check on an order, ring 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays and from 10am Saturday. If it isn't right when it lands, email a photo the same day.

Siobhan, on why nobody rings straight away

From 2006 until Ivy arrived in 2011 I took the worried calls, and nearly all of them went the same way: has it arrived, because she hasn't rung. Mostly she was feeding a baby, or dozing in the chair after lunch at the home. You'd love the call, and you'd hate to be the reason she got up for it. Now and then a newborn's house doesn't answer the knock because everyone's finally asleep, so the flowers wait in the shade and you get a call instead.

Give the card an extra minute. It outlasts the flowers.

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Over the fence

From a Marine Parade Counter to a Toowoomba Fax

Andrew and Siobhan Thomson, co-founders of Lily's Florist
Co-founder, Lily's Florist

Siobhan and I bought a flower and gift shop on Marine Parade, Kingscliff, in 2006 and launched Lily's Florist in 2009. In 2007 and 2008 Toowoomba was one of our ten busiest delivery areas, and every order was handwritten and faxed to our partner florist there. Yes, faxed. She sent us a hamper every Christmas.

The long version is on about Lily's Florist.