Birthday Flowers to Greta, Same Day if You Beat 2pm

A birthday order has to explain itself at the door. Ask for something bright and the person taking delivery knows what it is before anything gets opened. In by 2pm on a weekday and the flowers are at the house that afternoon, made up that morning by a florist in or close to Greta. Get-well orders are worth asking the family about first, because not one of the four hospitals a Greta patient might be in is in Greta. In spring and summer the run goes early, because the air out this way is drier than the coast and a doorstep is a poor place to wait, so tell us where to leave the flowers if the house is empty.

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Andrew and Siobhan replied

Thanks Simone. Flowers on their own could be sympathy or an apology just as easily as a birthday. The balloon settles that from the doorway, so your daughter knew what she was looking at before she got anywhere near the card.

Not much to it, but it saves a moment of guessing. Glad the one that went up to Greta was a good one.

Andrew & Siobhan Lily's Florist

Birthday Flowers for a Daughter

Same day cutoff

In by 2pm on a weekday, 10am Saturday. No Sunday delivery.

Where the order lands

In our experience a Greta admission lands at one of four hospitals, and not one of them is inside the postcode. Six funeral directors, four other towns.

Who makes it

No shop of ours in Greta. A florist working this stretch of highway builds the order that morning.

The weather station up the road is at Greta's own height, and it reads dry.

Anna, qualified florist | the Hunter is not the coast

People send flowers into the Hunter expecting coastal weather. Greta does not get it. The station at Cessnock Airport is sixty-seven metres up, near enough Greta's own height, and its afternoon humidity falls to forty-two per cent by September.

Dry air does not wilt a flower the way heat does. It pulls water out through the petal faster than the stem replaces it, so the damage starts at the edge. Leucadendron, waxflower, chrysanthemum and carnation hold through it. Hydrangea and sweet pea do not. An order looking tired on day two is usually that. Flowers going out here want an early run and a loose wrap.

One Order, Three Start Times

A weekday order into Greta

One cutoff, three clicks, different outcomes.

In by 11am

Early stops

Built before lunch, near the front of the run. Best odds you can buy in January.

In at 1.55pm

Still today

Makes the cutoff, rides the back of the run. The harder half on a hot day.

In at 2.15pm

Tomorrow

The van has gone. Twenty minutes has cost a day.

They never see the clock. They see what turns up, and when.

The Two Orders We See Most, and Where They Land

Two orders come into Greta more than any others, and only one of them ends up at a Greta address. A box arrangement covers both.

Which Hospital Are They Actually In?

Someone is in hospital and you have the town, not the ward.

Cessnock is twenty-one kilometres south, the Maitland hospital is at Metford, Singleton is west, and anything serious goes to John Hunter at Newcastle. Ask which one first. We drove those runs ourselves out of the Kingscliff shop from 2006 to 2009 and the pattern has not moved since: hospital flowers stop at main reception, and without a ward number they sit there.

Send a box, not a hand tie. A ward has no spare vase and nobody spare to fill one. Skip lilies, the pollen travels on staff clothing.

Nobody Home in Greta on a Twelve-Hour Roster

The birthday is today and the house is empty until the shift ends.

One worker in eight here is in coal and most drive out of town, so a weekday knock meets a closed door. No intercoms here. The delivery note does the work: back verandah, side gate, the neighbour.

If the flowers might wait outside, ask for waxy petals. Carnations will take a north-facing step in September. Sweet peas will not.

Order before 2pm and the flowers are at their door today.

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When Neither of Those Is Your Order

Plenty of orders do not come with a category.

Ask for a native box. Leucadendron, waxflower and a protea head take the dry air out here better than imports, and nobody hunts for a vase. It suits an aged care room at Branxton, a desk at work, or an empty front step.

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How to Order Flowers to Greta

Phone

1300 360 469
7am to 6pm weekdays
10am Saturdays

Same Day Cutoff

2pm weekdays, 10am Saturday. High Street is a morning job: it is a freight route and stopping is the problem.

Delivery $16.95

Greta, Branxton and North Rothbury on the one trip. Check a Huntlee address with us, the maps lag the street plan.

Funerals, Venues, and the Run In

The funeral directors we deliver to for Greta services work from Cessnock, Rutherford, Maitland or Singleton, so give us the venue, not the town. A tribute built for a lawn grave will not fit the columbarium wall on Evans Street. And the run in matters here. The main street is up on a ridge and stays dry while the low crossings west of here go under, so the road in can be shut while High Street is not. If that happens we ring you. Order before 2pm and it is there the same day, chapel or house.

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After You Order

You get a confirmation with an order number, and the order goes out that morning as a paid job. If something looks wrong, ring 1300 360 469 on a weekday, or send a photo the same day to [email protected].

Andrew, on the call we used to get most

My grandmother lived down at Cessnock, and the drive to see her ran along the New England Highway, which is Greta's main street for a kilometre or so. Siobhan and I were on the phones ourselves from 2006 to 2013, and the call that came back most often was someone ringing four hours after a delivery because the recipient had not rung them yet. Almost every time they were at work, or asleep after a night shift. Give it a day, then ring us.

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About the Author

Siobhan Thomson

Co-founder, Lily's Florist

I was eight months pregnant with our first when Andrew and I bought a flower shop in Kingscliff in 2006. I painted the walls, and for the next three years I drove the deliveries myself: hospitals, churches, retirement villages. The flowers were never the hard part. Finding the person was.

The brand came in 2009, the network behind it runs past 800 florists, and the decisions still get made at our kitchen table. The rest is on the about Lily's Florist page.