Send Flowers to Perth, Australia

Perth sits on the Swan River on Australia's west coast, closer to Singapore than to Sydney, and it keeps its own clock: Western Standard Time, with no daylight saving. That matters when you order from abroad, because next-day delivery depends on placing the order before midnight Perth time. Deliveries run Monday to Saturday, never on Sundays or public holidays.

The city is famous for wildflowers. Each September, Kings Park, the huge bushland park overlooking the centre, puts on a festival of Western Australian species, and the red and green kangaroo paw is the state's floral emblem. Local florists often work native blooms such as banksia and kangaroo paw into arrangements alongside roses and lilies, a nice touch for someone homesick for the west.

Perth has long drawn migrants from Britain, Ireland, South Africa and South-East Asia, and many households include fly-in fly-out workers who spend weeks away at mine sites, so flowers from afar are a familiar gesture here. Typical addresses include houses in Subiaco, Mount Lawley and the beach suburbs around Scarborough, apartments in East Perth, offices on St Georges Terrace, the University of Western Australia in Crawley, and Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch. Summers are hot and dry, so anyone who wants to send flowers to Perth in January should mention who can take them indoors promptly.

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