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New year compositions in Melbourne for a Christmas that falls in summer
Christmas Day and Boxing Day are back-to-back public holidays in Victoria at the start of summer. Snow last fell on central Melbourne in 1986, so fir here goes onto a summer table. New year compositions in Melbourne split into two kinds: one part is carried out of the door for a visit, the other stays behind on the table, and that split is where the choice starts.
Fir to take round on Boxing Day: bouquet, basket or wreath
Boxing Day, the 26th of December, is a public holiday in Victoria, the day after Christmas. What travels well in someone's hands is a hand-tied bouquet of noble fir from New Year bouquets, or a basket of the same greenery set among flowers. The nobilis itself is the same noble fir that goes into Christmas trees in the northern hemisphere.
A basket has one advantage a bouquet does not: it stands on a table without a vase, so whoever receives it does not have to hunt one down before the kettle has even boiled. A wreath works differently again. It is handed over the same way, then either hung on the front door or laid flat in the centre of a table.
Christmas lunch at home on the 25th is also a public holiday. What belongs there is a low arrangement built flat rather than tall, or a small tree made from bound fir branches that sits in a corner or on a sideboard once the plates are cleared.
Because the table piece needs to be in place before guests arrive, it suits ordering for a set date well ahead. Any suburb can be booked for a particular day and time slot, and the earlier the order goes in, the more of those slots are still open closer to Christmas. Before deciding where it will sit, it's worth a look at what the summer heat does to an arrangement, covered on the page for the wider range.
Bento cakes and company sets for the last week before Christmas
A bento cake is a small cake, little bigger than a hand, sold in its own cardboard box with a short greeting piped onto the icing for whoever opens it. It can travel in the same delivery as a fir arrangement, so a sender can cover both the table piece and something sweet in one order rather than two.
Once it arrives, a cream cake should go straight into a cool spot: by USDA guidance, food like this should not sit out for more than two hours at room temperature, or more than one hour above 32 °C.
Collins Street is lined with banks and offices, and a business sending to several of them can use corporate gift sets, built for a multi-address run. Several addresses can sit in one order, though delivery is still charged for each address separately, and an account manager can arrange an invoice and the paperwork that goes with it on request.
For New Year compositions delivery in Melbourne, the florist sends a photo of the finished piece before the courier leaves, and a card is free. Most orders are delivered on the day they are placed; the timing is shown on each product page. Delivery to the city centre costs nothing; everywhere else is a fixed amount set by zone, both listed under delivery terms.
Where to begin depends on who it is for. Something to stay on the table through lunch and after points to tabletop arrangements. Something to carry out of the door on Boxing Day points to a basket, which needs no vase at the other end. Fir and something sweet together point to New Year gifts, where a bento cake travels in the same delivery.