Flowers can be at a Mulgrave home today if the order is in before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on a Saturday; otherwise, choose the date at checkout. John R Hannah Mulgrave on Wattle Grove offers dementia, respite and palliative care, so give the resident's full name and room. Our Gorgeous Whites Bunch below works for a birthday visit or a thank you to the staff. Order online, or call us and we'll make sure the card says what you mean.
In palliative care, flowers are wanted, and the room decides the rest
Palliative care is the one place no one argues about flowers. The rooms welcome them and the staff understand what they mean. What changes is the room itself. Visitors come and go all day, the bedside table is crowded, and the person in the bed may be sensitive to strong smells, so a heavy perfume like oriental lily or stock can be too much.
Choose something with a soft scent or none: roses, lisianthus, a few stems of something they grew. Keep it low and steady in its own container, because nobody wants a vase going over in that room. I put together a lot of flowers for rooms like that, and the ones that worked were never the biggest. They were the ones that looked like the person.
What happens after you pay, and what each step needs from you.
A weekday order in by then goes out that afternoon.
One of our partner florists near Mulgrave builds it from the day's stock.
For John R Hannah, the resident's full name and room for reception.
For a new mum at Monash Medical Centre in Clayton, her name and the maternity ward.
A townhouse needs its unit number and which side of the driveway.
Ready? Choose an arrangement
Mulgrave has almost no apartments but plenty of townhouses on shared driveways, so for a house order, step five is the line to get right.
Mulgrave is a suburb of many traditions: fewer than half its homes speak only English at the 2021 census. Flowers here run from birthday flowers for Mum to aged care on Wattle Grove and new babies at Monash.
Dad is at John R Hannah on Wattle Grove and you want something in his room. The home offers respite, dementia and palliative care, so say which part of the home he is in if you know.
His full name and room go in the notes; in our experience reception takes the flowers and the staff carry them through. In the shop years I took flowers into a palliative room at a home in Tweed Heads and the family made room on the windowsill as if I had brought another visitor. Our thinking-of-you flowers carry a card like “Love you, Dad. We are all with you.”
Anna's pick: roses in a low container of their own, with nothing heavily scented.
Your sister has had the baby at Monash Medical Centre in Clayton, next door to Mulgrave, and you are a long way off. Her full name and the maternity ward in the notes, or the house once she is home.
Our new baby flowers or yellow flowers suit the ward, with “Welcome, little one. Can't wait to meet you.”
Nothing that sheds pollen near a newborn. Gerberas and roses give the colour, and a box keeps them steady on a crowded tray table.
Someone has died and you are not sure of the family's customs. Mulgrave is Chinese, Greek, Italian, Sri Lankan and more, and what is right differs between them, so ask the family before you choose.
For a service at Le Pine in Glen Waverley, where the chapel seats about 130, or a Mass at St John Vianney on Police Road, the service time and the family name. Our funeral flowers and white sympathy flowers cover most traditions. “With deepest sympathy to the whole family.”
White is the safest colour across almost every tradition. Red is the one to keep away from a funeral unless the family asks for it.
A neighbour, a colleague at Waverley Gardens, a friend going through something. No category needed.
Anna's pick: our flower bunches. A bunch goes into whatever vase the house has, and a fresh cut at an angle on day one lets it drink straight away.
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For a room on Wattle Grove, white sits quietly and stays clean in a cool corner.
White Flowers for a Care RoomBefore 2pm on weekdays, so the florist has the morning's stock and the afternoon to deliver.
Before 10am on Saturdays, as the Saturday run is short in our experience.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.
John R Hannah on Wattle Grove, BlueCross Hansworth on Hansworth Street or Royal Freemasons Monash Gardens on Wellington Road: the full name and room. Monash Medical Centre: the ward and full name. Le Pine or St John Vianney: the service time and family name. A townhouse: the unit and driveway side.
Reception at a care home, the ward desk, the funeral staff, and at a house whoever is home. Before 2pm on a weekday, it goes out that afternoon.
The order goes to one of our partner florists near Mulgrave that day, made from the morning's stock. If a stem in the photo is not in, the florist matches the colour and keeps the size.
If something arrives wrong, send a photo the same day and we fix it. The team is on 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays and from 10am Saturdays, and changes go to [email protected].
Palliative orders were the ones I took slowest, in the years I was on the phones. People did not always say it outright (they would say he is not well, or we are all here now), and I learnt to listen for it. If that is where you are, put it in the notes so the florist keeps it gentle. Now and then those flowers arrive on a day when nobody answers the phone afterwards. That silence is not a bad sign. The family is in the room.
Flowers will not change what is happening in that room, and they still tell everyone in it that you are thinking of them.
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