Same-day flower delivery reaches all of Miami 4220: order by 2pm on a weekday, or 10am on a Saturday, and the flowers are delivered that afternoon to a beachside unit, a townhouse or a desk at work. Miss the cutoff and pick another day at checkout. Sending to Miami Village on Bardon Avenue? Add the resident's unit number to the notes. Buy our Native Arrangement With Chocolates securely online, or call us and one of our friendly, Australian-based team will go through the options with you.
Sending flowers to a Miami unit with the balcony door open to the sea?
Salt rides the sea breeze well past the sand and settles on petals fine as dust. On soft-petalled flowers like roses and lisianthus, it draws the moisture out and the edges go papery in a couple of days. Waxflower, banksia and the leathery native leaves shrug it off.
So for a unit off The Esplanade with the slider open to the beach, put roses a room back from the door, where they do beautifully, or send natives and give them the balcony table. I learned that on the bench at Salt, the boutique florist in Kingscliff where I worked, because the sea air came in every time the door opened. Roses love Miami. They just want the inside room.
Tap where the flowers are headed. Each place shows the note it needs and a card line to borrow.
Miami Village, 170 Bardon Avenue
In the notes: their full name and unit number.
Happy 80th, Mum. Sorry I can't be there to see your face.
John Flynn Private, Tugun, or Pindara Private, Benowa
In the notes: the patient's name, plus the ward.
Get well soon. The beach will keep till you're back.
White Lady Funerals, 2140 Gold Coast Highway
In the notes: the name of the person who has died, and the service time.
With love and deepest sympathy to you all.
Miami State High School, Gold Coast Highway
In the notes: the teacher's full name. The school's front office usually takes them in.
Thank you for getting me through Year 12.
North Burleigh Surf Club, 293 The Esplanade
In the notes: a mobile that will answer on the day.
Happy birthday. First round's on you.
The flowers will fade. The card can stay on the fridge for years.
Birthdays are what we send most, with sympathy second. The cards below cover both, plus a hospital stay and a shortcut for when nothing fits, or you can go straight to our mixed flowers.
It's their birthday, they're at work till six, and home is one of the units or townhouses that make up most of Miami. You can send the birthday flowers to work, where someone is there all day, or home, with the building name, the unit number and a mobile for them in the notes, so there's someone to ring about where the flowers should wait. Our bestselling birthday flowers are a safe start.
A bunch that has waited in its wrap all afternoon wants a fresh cut on the angle and lukewarm water, which climbs a thirsty stem faster than cold. If the heads have dropped, give it an hour and they lift again.
Someone's gone into John Flynn or Pindara for an operation and you can't get there. We took flowers into John Flynn ourselves in 2007, out of our Kingscliff shop, and in our experience they wait at the ward desk until staff can bring them to the bed. Already home? Send get well flowers to the house.
Anna's pick: an arrangement already standing in its own vase or box, light on scent. Nobody on a ward has a jug handy, and the patient in the next bed may not want the perfume. Pick from the flower arrangements; roses and gerberas keep the scent down.
The service is at White Lady Funerals on the Gold Coast Highway, or Calvary Church on Redondo Avenue, and you can't be there. For a morning service, order the day before. Something for the family at home can follow a week later, once the house goes quiet. It feels like too little to send. They'll still remember who did.
Whites, creams and soft greens sit quietly beside a coffin and still hold their own from the back row of the chapel. A sheath lies flat on the coffin or a table, so nobody goes hunting for a vase ten minutes before the service. The wreaths and sheaths are built that way.
Plenty of orders don't have a heading: a new job, a rotten week, a thank-you to the neighbour who fed the dog. You don't need a category to send flowers.
Take Anna's shortcut and go the Florist's Choice. It's built from the best of what the partner florist near the address has in that day, so the stems arrive at their peak.
More ways to choose
Order before today's cutoff and the birthday flowers are in Miami this afternoon.
Send birthday flowers2pm on a weekday, which gives the florist time to build the flowers and have them out the door that afternoon.
10am on a Saturday, a shorter day for florists.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
Building name and unit number for the blocks along The Esplanade and the Gold Coast Highway. The resident's unit at Miami Village. The ward at John Flynn or Pindara. The service time for White Lady or Calvary.
A person at the door, the ward desk or the chapel staff. For an empty unit, name a neighbour or a shady spot. In before the cutoff, in Miami this afternoon.
Your confirmation email comes straight away. No word from them that evening is normal; flowers go in water before anyone picks up a phone. To change anything, email [email protected] or ring our team on 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays and from 10am Saturday.
In 2007 and 2008 most of our Gold Coast orders went out in our own van, Siobhan and me driving, from the shop on Marine Parade in Kingscliff. Nursing homes, John Flynn, a lot of unit blocks. When it got too much for one van, the first florist we handed the Gold Coast to was in Miami. These days one of our partner florists near the address makes your order on the day. Not right? Photograph it, email us that day, and we fix it.
Then go and put the kettle on.
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