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Flowers Into East Melbourne

Most of what we send to East Melbourne goes to a hospital. Epworth Freemasons on Clarendon Street, St Vincent's Private on the Victoria Parade side and the specialist rooms between them take flowers from us most days, and a ward delivery is treated differently to a doorstep one. It needs a patient name, a ward and a bag that holds its own water.

Beyond the hospitals it is a small, quiet suburb. The terraces along George Street, Powlett Street and Hotham Street, the apartments on Wellington Parade facing Yarra Park, and the offices around Albert Street and the Parliament end all sit on the same short run from the studio, so nothing waits around in a van.

Outside of Melbourne Florist Shop, Kate Hill

How East Melbourne Gets Ours

First Look at the Market

Our buyers have been at the Melbourne market since 2007, and the growers show them the good lines before those lines reach the floor. That head start is why an East Melbourne arrangement can carry stems that were cut the evening before. It also means a box can be refused without a conversation, and plenty are.

Checked on the Bench

Every delivery from the market is opened at the Southbank bench and gone through stem by stem. What passes is stripped, cut and stood in clean water, and it is usually designed and away within a day. The florist working on your order checks it again as it comes together, and once more before it leaves for East Melbourne.

Water for the Ward

Hospital wards do not keep spare vases, so our signature bag was designed with a water vessel seated in its base. Flowers go from the bench to the bedside standing in water and can stay in the bag for the whole visit. Top the water up each day. If anything is not right, we replace it or refund it.

VALERIE 20 stems of white oriental lilies in a large white footed ceramic vessel

What East Melbourne Sends

Get well and new baby flowers make up most of what East Melbourne asks for, with thank you arrangements for surgeons and ward staff close behind. Birthdays, anniversaries and sympathy flowers go to the terraces and apartments through the year. Tell our florists who the flowers are for and they design to suit, with roses, lilies, hydrangeas and whatever came off the market floor that morning.

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Delivery Around East Melbourne

East Melbourne sits between flowers into Richmond, Fitzroy deliveries, the Melbourne CBD, our Collingwood florist page and flowers to Carlton on our morning run. The full list of suburbs is on our Melbourne delivery suburbs page.

East Melbourne Delivery Questions

Can I have flowers delivered to East Melbourne today?

Yes, on orders placed before 1pm. Anything after that goes out on the next delivery day. East Melbourne is covered Monday to Saturday.

What will delivery to East Melbourne cost me?

The East Melbourne fee is worked out at checkout from the address before you pay, so nothing is added afterwards.

Do you deliver to Epworth Freemasons and St Vincent's Private?

Every week. Give us the patient's full name, the ward or room and a contact number at checkout, and our florist will hand the flowers to the ward desk. The bag holds water, so they can go straight to the bedside.

What if the patient has been discharged before the flowers arrive?

Hospitals will not always take flowers for a discharged patient, so we call the number on the order and redirect them to a home address where we can.

Which flowers are likely to be used?

Whatever our buyers rated best at dawn. Through the year that means roses, lilies, tulips, hydrangeas, ranunculus and natives, and there are plants, wine and gifts if the ward rules do not allow flowers.