Last month, on a quiet Saturday morning, we delivered to Lakeview Drive, just across from Lilydale Lake.
I know that street well — I used to live nearby more than ten years ago. Back then it was a peaceful retirement area. Today, new housing estates are slowly appearing beside the older homes, but many of the original residents still remain.
The order came from a daughter living in Perth. She asked us to send her mum a bouquet of spring flowers and leave it on the front bench. The note read:
"Mum's knees have been bothering her lately and she can't bend down to tend her garden anymore. Please send her something beautiful."
We put together a gentle arrangement of a handcrafted arrangement of soft pink orchids with green leaves, elegantly wrapped in pink paper and presented in a white Flowerland branded gift bag. Captured as part of a personalized flower delivery service to residential homes in Lilydale, Victoria. — colours that felt like they belonged in an old garden.
When we arrived, we placed the bouquet on the bench as requested and took a quick photo from a distance (without showing the house number). We sent it to the daughter.
A short while later, she replied:
"She just called me, crying. She said she sat on the bench looking at the flowers and felt like she was still taking care of her garden. Thank you."
It wasn’t an expensive bouquet. But for a retired gardener who could no longer kneel in the soil, those flowers gave her back a little piece of her garden on an ordinary Saturday morning in Lilydale.
Some moments don’t need to be grand. They just need to be thoughtful.
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