Send flowers to Bunbury and the South West

Bunbury is the capital of Western Australia's South West, 175 km south of Perth on a peninsula between Koombana Bay, the Leschenault Estuary and the Indian Ocean. Governor Stirling founded the settlement in 1836 and named it after Lieutenant Henry William St Pierre Bunbury; to the Wardandi Noongar people the place is Goomburrup. With 76,452 people in the urban area at the 2021 census it is the state's largest city outside Perth, a working port and mining-services town that also happens to have bottlenose dolphins visiting the beach in front of the Dolphin Discovery Centre. Flowers ordered here are arranged by a florist in Bunbury and delivered by hand, not couriered down the Forrest Highway.

Bunbury suburbs and the towns across the estuary

The city run covers Bunbury itself, South Bunbury, East Bunbury, Carey Park, Withers, Usher, College Grove, Glen Iris, Picton, Davenport, Vittoria and Pelican Point. Across the estuary, Eaton and Australind are delivered from Bunbury, as are Dalyellup and Gelorup to the south; Capel and the farms beyond may be a next-day run. The Australind train from Perth arrives at the station in East Bunbury, which is handy if you are sending flowers to meet someone off it. Edith Cowan University's South West campus and South Regional TAFE are both in town, and flowers to a student on campus need a mobile number and a building, because reception desks will not hold them. The same goes for shift workers at the port or out at the mines: a home address beats a workplace.

Same-day flowers to Bunbury, on Perth time

Order before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on a Saturday, Western Australian time, and the bouquet is delivered that day, Monday to Saturday, with no deliveries on Sundays. Western Australia does not have daylight saving and sits two hours behind the east coast in winter and three hours behind Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart in summer, which is good news for anyone ordering from over east: the 2pm Bunbury cut-off is 4pm Sydney time from April to October and 5pm from October to April, and 4pm Brisbane time all year. From Adelaide it is 3.30pm in winter and 4.30pm in summer. Later orders go out the next working day or on the date you choose.

Bunbury Regional Hospital and St John of God

St John of God Bunbury Hospital is at the corner of Robertson Drive and Bussell Highway, Bunbury 6230, with visiting hours from 3pm to 8pm. Bunbury Regional Hospital, the public hospital, is in the middle of a $572 million redevelopment that will make it the largest hospital in regional Western Australia, and the entrances and ward numbers are changing as the work goes on. For either hospital, ring the ward before you order: intensive care and some wards take no fresh flowers, and give the patient's full name and the ward so the flowers are not left at a desk. If the patient is about to go home, send them there instead.

Bunbury Cemetery, the crematorium and sympathy flowers

Bunbury Cemetery on Hales Street, Carey Park 6230, has been on its present site since 1914, laid out originally in a Union Jack pattern and now covering just over 25 hectares with burial lawns, a mausoleum and the Bunbury Crematorium and Memorial Gardens on the same ground. Because most services are held there, florists in Bunbury handle wreaths, casket sprays and sheaves daily; order them two or three days ahead through the funeral director or directly. Because delivery to the service itself is never guaranteed, the family's home should always be given as a second address. People searching for a funeral florist in Bunbury are usually in a hurry: a sympathy bouquet to the house can go the same day under the normal cut-off.

Mediterranean seasons: what is fresh in Bunbury

Bunbury has a Mediterranean climate, with January days averaging about 30 degrees and July nights around 7, and most of the 729 mm of rain falling between May and September. Spring, from September into November, is wildflower season in the South West; kangaroo paw is endemic to this corner of the continent and turns up in local bouquets alongside sweet pea, peony and delphinium. Summer is roses, gerberas, carnations, gladioli and orchids, all of which shrug off a dry 35-degree day better than soft garden stems. Autumn brings proteas and leucadendrons, and the cool wet winter is the best time of year for tulips, ranunculus and daffodils. Ask for a seasonal bouquet and the florist chooses what came in freshest.

Flower days on the South West calendar

Mother's Day is Sunday 9 May 2027, the biggest flower day of the year in Bunbury as everywhere; with no Sunday delivery, flowers go out on Saturday 8 May and the cut-off is 10am. Valentine's Day on 14 February lands in the hottest, driest month, so roses should go to a workplace in the morning or a home where someone can get them into water. Anzac Day on 25 April is a day for a sprig of rosemary and a wreath at the dawn service, not a bouquet, and Father's Day is Sunday 5 September 2027, just as the wildflowers start. The district's shows run in spring too, with the Brunswick Show on 24 October 2026 the nearest to town.

What flowers to Bunbury cost

Bouquets start at AUD 75, with larger arrangements, dozen roses and native bunches priced above that. The delivery fee is shown and added at checkout, and the card comes free.

Did you know? Did you know? Bunbury's Noongar name is Goomburrup, and the settlement founded by Governor Stirling in 1836 is now, at 76,452 people, the largest city in Western Australia outside Perth.