To Ringwood — With Flowers
The Quiet Craft Behind the Busy Streets
It isn’t just because Eastland hums with shoppers every weekend, or because trains arrive and depart from Ringwood Station all day long.
It’s because just beyond those busy streets, there are homes where flowers arrive — and everything slows down.
Some weekends, we deliver to the apartments above Eastland Shopping Centre. Downstairs, thousands of people move through the mall. Upstairs, a door opens quietly. A bouquet is received in soft socks and morning light. No special occasion. Just because. The contrast always makes us pause.
Other deliveries take us down Great Ryrie Street, past older homes and newly rising townhouses. A daughter orders flowers for her mother who has recently moved into a smaller place. “She left her garden behind,” she tells us. So we bring a little of it back.
Then there are the deliveries that turn toward Maroondah Hospital. These are different.
We park near the visitor entrance and walk through corridors where time feels suspended. Hospitals hold many kinds of moments — beginnings, recoveries, quiet waiting. When we place flowers in a room at Maroondah, we are not only wishing someone well. We are reminding the space that life continues to unfold. That someone, somewhere, is thinking of them.
From our studio in Nunawading, it is a 15-minute drive to any of these places.
Fifteen minutes is short. But it is long enough for us to consider who is on the other end.
If you have someone in Ringwood — above Eastland, along Great Ryrie Street, or in a room that could use a little light — we can be there today.