Preston VIC Flower Delivery Today, Home or Aged Care

Preston gets flowers delivered today on orders placed before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on a Saturday; after that, choose the date at checkout. Uniting AgeWell Preston on Bruce Street has a memory support unit and its own chapel, so give the resident's full name and room. Our Gorgeous Whites Bunch below works for a birthday or a plain thank you. Use the cart, or call us and an Australian voice will finish the order for you.

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“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

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Birthdays
Sympathy

At a grave, the flowers live on the water they carried in

Anna, qualified florist | on flowers left out at a grave

In the Orthodox calendar a death is marked again at forty days, three months, six months and a year, and when the family goes on to the grave, the flowers are left out in the open. A cut stem keeps drinking after it is laid down. With no water under it, the petals start drying from the edges in, fastest in sun and wind. Carnations and chrysanthemums have tougher petals and keep their shape longest out there. Roses do lovely work in the cemetery vase, if the plot has one, topped up with clean water.

For a grave visit I used to put the stems in a wet pack, damp wadding sealed around the base, which buys a day or so. After the first time I saw an unwrapped posy at the end of a hot afternoon, no grave posy left my bench without one.

The Cemetery Called Preston Is in Bundoora

Four Preston addresses that are easy to mix up

Tap the one you mean and copy the line into the notes.

Preston Cemetery Coburg Cemetery Bruce Street aged care An Orthodox church

Preston Cemetery is on Plenty Road in Bundoora, not in Preston at all.

Write the section and the name on the plot.

Coburg Cemetery is on Bell Street, inside Preston. It has been full since 1971 and opens only for existing family graves.

Write the family surname and the section.

Uniting AgeWell on Bruce Street has a memory support unit and its own chapel.

Write the resident's full name, and say if they are in memory support.

Sts Cyril and Methodius on Yann Street is Greek Orthodox. St Nikola on Tyler Street is Macedonian Orthodox. They are a few streets apart.

Write the church by name and the service time.

Address sorted? Choose white sympathy flowers

Two cemeteries named after the wrong suburbs and two churches a few streets apart: one line in the notes sorts all four.

Memory Support, Memorials and Get-Well Runs

Preston's orders run from the aged care on Bruce Street to the Orthodox churches on Yann Street and Tyler Street, with plenty of birthday flowers for a friend in between.

Nan in Memory Support on Bruce Street

Nan has moved into memory support at Uniting AgeWell, and you are not sure she will know who sent them. The flowers might mean more to you than to her, and that is fine. Send them anyway.

Use her full name and say memory support; in our experience reception takes them and the staff carry them through. In the shop years I once walked a birthday bunch around a care home in Tweed Heads twice before anyone asked who it was for. The woman it was for had been sitting by the front window the whole time. Our thinking-of-you flowers carry a card like “Love from Sophie. See you Sunday.”

Anna's pick: an arrangement in its own container, low and facing forward, so it fits on the bedside table beside the photos and nobody has to find it a vase.

Forty Days, Three Months, Then a Year

The funeral was weeks ago, and now the family is keeping the memorials. In our experience Orthodox families mark those days as carefully as the funeral itself.

Flowers go to the church for the memorial or to the grave, and the notes need to say which. Preston Cemetery is on Plenty Road in Bundoora; Coburg Cemetery is on Bell Street in Preston. Our sympathy flowers and sympathy roses both suit a memorial. “Always remembered, always loved” is enough on the card.

Anna, on the headstone ledge

Keep it small for a grave. A low posy of white roses sits on a headstone ledge where a tall arrangement would go over in the first gust.

Get-Well Flowers Go to Heidelberg

Somebody from Preston has gone into hospital, and the message only said the Austin. Preston has had no hospital of its own since PANCH closed in 1999; its old site on Bell Street is now Bell City.

So get-well orders from here go to the Austin on Studley Road, or to the Mercy Hospital for Women next to it for a new baby. Full name and ward, and only once they are on a general ward, because in our experience intensive care takes no flowers. Our get-well flowers or hospital flowers suit the bedside, with “Rest up. The next ones we bring ourselves.”

Leave the oriental lilies for home. One stem fills a shared room, and the next bed did not ask for it.

No Heading Quite Fits This One

A new job, a good result, a friend who has had a hard month. You do not need a heading to send flowers.

Anna's pick: our daisies and gerberas, bright, unscented and easy in a small flat. Gerberas lean toward the window, so turn the vase each morning and they stand straight again.

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Before You Pay: Times and Notes

When to order

Weekdays before 2pm, so there is time to build it and get it across before the afternoon gets late.
Saturdays before 10am, as the Saturday run tends to finish by early afternoon.
No Sunday delivery, except Mother's Day.

What the notes need

Uniting AgeWell on Bruce Street or Preston Hilltop on Montague Street: the resident's full name and room. Jensen Funerals on Bruce Street: the service time and the family name. A church: which one, and the time. A stall at Preston Market: the stall name.

Who takes it in

Reception at an aged-care home, the funeral director's staff, whoever is setting up at the church, and at a house, whoever answers. Before 2pm on a weekday, it goes out the same afternoon.

Arrangements That Need No Vase

What Happens on the Day

The order comes to us, goes to one of our partner florists near Preston that day, and they make it up from that morning's stock. When a photographed stem has not come in, the florist matches the colour and keeps the size.

Something wrong? Photograph it the same day and we fix it. Ring 1300 360 469 between 7am and 6pm on weekdays or from 10am on Saturdays, and send changes to [email protected].

Siobhan, on a word she had to look up

A woman rang once wanting sympathy flowers for a Preston family, and when I asked about the service she said no, this is for the žito. I had no idea what she meant (I wrote it down the way it sounded and looked it up after). It is the boiled wheat made for a memorial, and the flowers were for the table beside it. Now and then a memorial order still goes to the house when it was meant for the church, so name the place. And if the family has not rung, they are probably feeding forty people.

Being remembered on the fortieth day, after everyone else has gone home, is the part that stays with a family.

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About the Writer

Andrew and Siobhan Thomson, co-founders of Lily's Florist

Andrew Thomson

Co-founder, Lily's Florist

Preston I know from the order book rather than the street. The way an order works has barely changed since Siobhan and I drove out to Bray Park in early 2009 with Asha in the back seat and asked a florist if she wanted our orders. Today more than eight hundred partner florists do, one of them near Preston.

Our accountant told us not to buy the shop that started it. He still does our books. The rest is on about Lily's Florist.