Same Day Flowers Delivery - Australia Wide!
Birthday, get well or funeral flowers ordered before 2pm on a weekday are delivered anywhere in Mapleton this afternoon. After 2pm, pick the day at checkout. Each is made up fresh on the day, and natives like the Australian Natives Bunch are our bestsellers. Sending to Mapleton Cemetery? Choose a wreath or sheath, which lies flat on that lawn where a vase would tip. Pick from our same-day range below, or call us and our friendly Australian team will help you choose and write the card.
Which Flowers Last Longest Once They Reach Mapleton
For flowers that are still going long after the day, send natives. They have a reputation for looking like something picked off the back fence, and with Mapleton Falls National Park just west of town, the back fence here is bush. Send them anyway. The softer stems in a native bunch have their week, then the banksia and leucadendron dry where they stand and sit on a shelf for months.
Their stems are dense, so a clean cut isn't enough for them to drink. If whoever gets them does one thing, it's this: split the base a few centimetres with a knife. The first leucadendron I left in a jug after the rest went to compost was still upright a month later.
Birthdays are what we send most, then sympathy, then flowers for someone who's crook. Where a vase could be a problem, our flower arrangements arrive with their own water.
The birthday is today and you won't be at the table. Most birthday flowers go to the house. A party runs differently, as I found out in 2008 carrying six table arrangements for a sixtieth into the Bangalow A&I Hall on Station Street. The birthday girl wasn't there yet. Her sister handed me a stack of chairs. I left forty minutes later with eighty chairs out and cake in a serviette.
Bangalow's hall dates from 1911, and so does Mapleton Hall on Obi Obi Road. A party at either runs the same way: the flowers reach whoever is setting up, so put the setup time and that person's mobile in the notes.
Anna's call: for a party table, the Florists Choice Birthday Arrangement. It's built into wet foam, keeps drinking all afternoon, and nobody hunts for a vase.
Someone you love is unwell and you can't pop round. Still in Nambour General? The ward name goes in the notes. Home on a bush block? Their mobile does, because the number is on the road and the house is up the driveway. Get well flowers or a thinking of you bunch both suit, with a card like "Thinking of you. Ring when you feel like a chat."
Gerberas and roses bring colour without much scent. Save the Oriental lilies for a big room with the window open.
The notice came through and you can't make the trip for the service. A service or burial takes a wreath or sheath: put the time and the funeral director in the notes and the florist works to that window. Sympathy flowers for the home go to the family instead, and in our years on the phones plenty of people sent them after the funeral, once the visitors had gone. "Thinking of you all" is enough on the card.
For the house, whites and soft greens. They don't shout in a room full of people. Check the family's tradition first, because white isn't the safe colour in every one.
Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: the neighbour who fed the dog, a friend who moved there for the quiet, someone doing it tough.
Anna's pick: the Beautiful Pastels Bunch. Soft pinks and creams work for any of those, and nobody opens them wondering what you meant. Brighter? Try our mixed flowers.
More Ways to Choose
Still before the cutoff? Their flowers can go out today.
Shop Native Flowers2pm weekdays for same day, which leaves the afternoon to make it up and drive it out.
10am Saturday, because Saturday runs finish early.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
A mobile number, always. On acreage, the gate and which side of the road. For a hall party, the setup time. For a service, the time and the funeral director.
The person, a neighbour, the family, or the funeral director at a service. Nobody home? Name a shaded spot in the notes. Get it in before 2pm and it goes out this afternoon.
Your confirmation email comes straight away, and one of our partner florists near Mapleton makes it up and delivers it on the day you chose. To change the address or the card, email [email protected] or ring 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays, and one of our team will sort it. Anything wrong when it arrives? Send us a photo that day.
Don't read anything into the quiet. People who are unwell, or grieving, or eighty and out in the garden rarely ring the minute flowers arrive (which, yes, is maddening when you're the one waiting). The thank-you often comes a week later, sometimes with a photo of the vase. In my years on the phones, when something went wrong it was nearly always the address, which is why Andrew keeps asking for the gate.
That's everything between the order and the gate.
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