Sympathy Plants

Choosing a plant to send during a difficult time

Something understated is usually right. Green foliage rather than anything loud, and a plant that copes with lower light, because it may sit in a hallway or a corner for a while before anyone decides where it should go. Avoid anything that needs attention in a week when nobody has attention to spare.

Why a living plant

A plant is still there in a month, which is often when the messages have stopped and the house is quiet again. It keeps growing without being asked to, and it doesn't need to be dealt with. For some people that matters more than something that arrives, is admired, and is gone by the weekend.

Funeral and memorial plants

Send it to the family's home rather than the service. We don't deliver to funerals, memorial services, funeral homes, chapels or crematoriums, because we can't deliver at a set time and a gift that arrives after everyone has left helps nobody. The home is the better send in any case. A plant landing a few days afterwards, when the visitors have gone and the week goes quiet, is the one that gets noticed. As a memorial gift it holds up over years rather than days, and it can be moved, repotted and kept without ever needing to be explained.

Condolence plants and thinking of you

A condolence gift is asked to do very little: arrive, be noticed, and not create a job. Greenery manages that. The same is true of a thinking of you plant sent with no occasion attached, for someone having a hard month rather than a bereavement. In both cases something understated carries further than something large.

When it will arrive

Order before 12pm on a weekday, or before 10am on Saturday, and we deliver the same day across the suburbs we cover. Our drivers head out in the early afternoon and homes are delivered by 6pm, with business addresses done by 5pm. There are no Sunday deliveries. You can check whether an address is covered on our Brisbane delivery areas page, and our delivery terms set out the rest.

Saying something without saying much

Add a greeting card at checkout and write the message yourself. We don't write it for you, and that's deliberate: a short line in your own words carries more than a longer one that came from somewhere else. If you're sending on behalf of a few people, names on a card are enough.