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Shop BySame Day Flower Delivery to Kooragang Island Workplaces
Order before 2pm on a weekday and the flowers are on Kooragang today. Out on the island they're nearly always for someone at work, so put the company, their name, their mobile and their shift in the notes (Port Waratah, Curlew Street, say), and whoever signs for them knows exactly who to ring. Pick the Bright Arrangement With Chocolates below for the crib room and pay securely online, or call us and one of our friendly, Australian-based team will take the details down for you.
“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
A Kooragang bunch that has to wait out a shift needs more water than a wet pack holds
Anna, qualified florist | on flowers that have to wait for knock-off
A wrapped bunch leaves the florist with a wet pack around its stems, and that pack buys a few hours. If the bunch goes straight off the driver and into a jug, that pack is all it needs. If it waits in a gatehouse until the shift ends, the pack dries out, the stems stop drinking and the softest petals go limp at the edges.
I wrapped hundreds of wet packs before I'd trust one past lunchtime. A long wait wants foam. In an arrangement built into wet foam every stem keeps drinking for days, and a boxed one rides home on a ute seat without spilling a drop. A glass vase makes the trip too, wedged in the footwell with a jacket.
Flowers for People at Work: Birthdays, Retirements and Sympathy
Four people lived on Kooragang at the 2021 Census (four!), so the flowers ordered for the island are nearly always for someone who works there: a birthday that lands on a rostered day, a farewell after decades on the coal loader, which opened in 1984, a wreath the whole crew is chipping in for, or just thank-you flowers for whoever covered a shift.
Birthday Flowers for Someone on Shift
Their birthday falls on a work day and you want something waiting for them. A lot of people out there work shifts, so check which one they're on. On day shift, send the flowers to the site with their mobile in the notes and they'll usually be there before knock-off; on nights, send them home, because a birthday bunch that sits at the gate overnight isn't the surprise you had in mind. And yes, men get flowers too (most of them like it more than they let on), and our birthday flowers for him are picked with that in mind. Anna has a view on this.
A Florist's Choice Birthday Arrangement With Chocolates sits in wet foam, so the front office won't go looking for a jug. Once it's home, tip half a cup of water into the foam every second day. Foam gives no warning: it looks fine right up until it dries, and then the whole arrangement wilts in an afternoon.
Retirement Flowers for a Last Day on Site
A workmate is retiring, the card is going round the office, and you've been handed the flowers. For an afternoon send-off, order for the day itself. If the speeches are first thing, have the flowers delivered the day before so they're already on the table, and if the farewell is at the pub that night, send them to the retiree's home the next day. Our celebration flowers come in sizes to match the years.
Anna's call: an Australian Native Arrangement. It's boxed, so there's no vase to find in the office. Protea and leucadendron hold their shape for a couple of weeks, and once the softer stems are done, what's left dries where it stands and sits on a shelf for months.
Sympathy Flowers From the Whole Crew Go to the Service
Someone on the crew has lost a parent, or the crew has lost one of its own, and the money's been collected in the crib room. The flowers go to the service: White Lady Funerals on Maitland Road in Mayfield or whoever is running it, or Sandgate Cemetery for a graveside, with the start time in the notes. Nobody on a crew is good at this, and everyone still wants it right. "From all of us on the crew" is enough on the card. Browse our wreaths and sheaths, or send sympathy flowers to the home.
Anna, on the graveside
A wreath or a sheath lies flat on the grass and stays put in a gust. A tall vase on turf tips the first time the wind gets under it. From a crew, send the White Funeral Wreath: white sits quietly beside whatever the family has chosen.
Passed a Ticket, Got the Promotion, Survived the Nights
Plenty of reasons to send flowers to work don't have a name: a new ticket, a step up to supervisor, a run of night shifts finally done. Our just-because flowers cover all of it.
Send 2 Lily Stems In Glass Vase. The vase comes with it and the buds open one after another. Pinch the anthers off as each flower opens, or the pollen ends up on a hi-vis shirt. Dry pollen bonds to fabric, so lift it with sticky tape.
Other ways into the range
Order early on a weekday and the thank-you is on site this afternoon.
Send a thank-youFour Things the Notes Need for a Site Delivery
Cutoffs
2pm weekdays, so there's time to make the flowers and get them out to the island, mostly over the Tourle Street Bridge, the same day.
10am Saturday, when florists work a shorter day.
Past the cutoff, choose any later date at checkout.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
What the notes need
For a site: the company (Port Waratah, Orica, the NCIG terminal), their full name, their mobile, and day or night shift. For a hospital: Calvary Mater in Waratah or John Hunter, and the ward (for ICU or a cancer ward, ask the family first). For a funeral: the director, such as White Lady Funerals in Mayfield, and the start time.
Who takes them
On a site, in our experience the gatehouse or the front office takes the flowers, since drivers aren't normally inducted to go further, and the person on duty rings the recipient. At a hospital it's usually the ward desk, and at a funeral the director's staff. Plenty of sites keep alcohol out, so the Bright Bunch + Sparkling is one to send home. Order before 2pm on a weekday and the flowers are delivered this afternoon.
No Word Until Knock-Off Is Normal
Your confirmation email lands straight away (check the junk folder, it likes hiding there), and one of our partner florists near Kooragang makes the flowers on the day. To change anything, email [email protected] or call 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays. If something's wrong when the flowers arrive, send us a photo that day and it gets fixed. Then it goes quiet, which is the hard bit when you're the one who sent them.
Andrew, on a sugar mill gate in 2007
Condong sugar mill, Tweed Valley Way, 2007, middle of the crush. I turned up at the gate in thongs holding a birthday bunch. The bloke in the gatehouse looked at my feet, then at the lilies, and said nobody gets past him without steel caps. Fair enough. He signed, stood the bunch in a bucket and radioed through. The man it was for was on nights and got them at six the next morning. Kooragang works much the same. The gate holds them until the shift ends, and the thank-you call usually comes after that.
Most flowers last a week or so. The card tends to end up taped inside a locker door.
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