Thank you, John, and apologies this reply comes a few months late. Something you wrote stuck with me, that since you couldn't be there in person, you wanted a florist close to their home. That instinct was exactly right, and I'll be straight about how it worked. Lily's is a family business run from the Tweed, not a shop in Sandy Bay, but the arrangement was made by a florist in or near there, close to your relative. The hands you wanted nearby were real ones. We were down in Hobart as a family last year, so Sandy Bay isn't just a dot on a map to me. A native arrangement suits an eightieth, they hold their shape and last well, so an older recipient gets weeks out of them. Good that the flowers and chocolates both went down well. Hope the milestone was one worth marking, and thank you for choosing us for it.

Andrew & Siobhan Lily's Florist