Flowers Delivered to Warrimoo, Even the Empty House

What Holds Up in a Warrimoo Kitchen, and When to Send It

Anna, qualified florist who spent years telling people what actually survives a mountains summer

Most people reach for roses and hope for the best. Up here you can do better, and the timing matters more than the flower. Warrimoo runs high enough that a lounge room in June or July stays five or six degrees under the Sydney basin, and cool rooms slow everything down. Winter is the best time of year to send flowers to this address, not the worst. Tulips, ranunculus and anemones are cheapest and strongest from June to August, and most of them are grown down in the Southern Highlands, an hour or so south, not flown in from the other side of the country.

Most Warrimoo homes stand empty through the working day, and that decides the flower as much as the season does. A bunch has to forgive a warm afternoon on its own. Chrysanthemums and carnations do that. They will hold fourteen days on a bench and barely notice a missed water top-up. Keep them clear of the fruit bowl though. Ripening fruit gives off ethylene, a gas that ages cut flowers, and a bunch parked next to a bowl of bananas drops days early. Hydrangeas and sweet peas are the opposite, beautiful, and the first to fold on a west-facing step in a February heat spike.

In winter I pointed people at the cool-season stems, for the extra week they give you. In summer, natives or chrysanthemums, and ask for a morning run. A banksia or a protea head is close to indestructible, and it belongs to the same bush growing outside the window. A pretty photo means nothing if the flowers are cooked by the time someone gets home. Longevity is the quiet part of the gift. A bunch still going strong a fortnight later is a fortnight someone keeps seeing it, and thinking of you.

From the Sydney Market to a Warrimoo Doorstep

There's no warehouse on the highway packing these into a box. A partner florist near the mountains buys at market, builds your bunch that morning, and drives it up the Great Western Highway the same day. That's the whole point of the network.

* What happens to your order once it lands in the Lily's Florist network.

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After You Order

Once you've ordered, it goes straight to a partner florist in or near Warrimoo as a paid order, and they build it that morning. You'll get an email confirmation. If you want to know exactly what's going out, or you forgot to add the safe-place note, ring us and we'll add it before the driver leaves.

If something's not right when it lands, tell us the same day. A photo to [email protected] or a call on 1300 360 469, and we'll sort it while there's still time to. Not three days later.

Andrew on the empty-house problem

The one thing that used to catch us out here was the empty house. A bunch left on a west-facing step on a February afternoon can wilt before anyone gets home, and for a while that was our most common Warrimoo complaint. So we changed how we take the order. Now we ask where's safe before the driver leaves, not after, and the safe spot goes on the run sheet. It's a small thing. It fixed most of it. One more: if they don't message you straight back, don't read into it. The flowers did their job the moment they landed, whether anyone's got their phone out or not.

Quickest way to change anything is the phone, 7am to 6pm weekdays and from 10am Saturdays. Email's fine too, we read every one.

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