
Order before 14:00 local time and your flowers can be delivered the same day, and deliveries run Monday to Saturday, so most of the week is available to you. A new job, a graduation, an exam finally passed: sending flowers to Malta on the day the news arrives is worth more than a card that shows up a week later. You order and pay securely online in your own currency, whichever one that is, so the distance between you and the island costs you nothing but the minutes it takes to choose.
Choose an arrangement this morning and a florist on the island can have it at their door before the day is over.
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Arrangements are made with what's freshest, which is a florist's honest starting point on any given morning. If a flower isn't available, the florist substitutes one of equal or greater value in a matching style, so the arrangement holds its shape, its scale and its colour rather than arriving as a thinner version of the picture you chose. If the recipient isn't home when it arrives, the florist will typically call them or arrange a redelivery, which is why the contact details you enter are worth a second look before you pay.
Maltese postcodes run three letters followed by four digits — for example, VLT 1117. Put the street and number first, then the town or locality, then that code, and a driver has everything needed to find the door. Include the recipient's local phone number too, because florists use it to confirm availability and the exact address. Apartment blocks often want a door code before anyone gets past the entrance — add it at checkout, in the field provided, at no extra cost.
There are over 200 gifts to choose between, over 100 of them flowers, so the bouquet is a starting point, not the only option. Gift baskets, plants and chocolates cover the moments when cut flowers are not quite the thing: a plant for someone who has just moved, chocolates for a team that pulled a long week, a basket for a household with people coming and going. Pick the one that matches the person and everything else about the order stays the same.
Outdoor growing here concentrates in the cooler autumn-to-spring months, since the hot dry summer limits field production, and the rest of the year leans heavily on imports from Italy and the Netherlands. Carnations, gladioli and chrysanthemums are the stems most often grown locally, around Mġarr, Siġġiewi and Gozo, with much of the trade passing through the Pitkalija wholesale market at Ta' Qali. The look tends to be bright and densely packed with strong seasonal colour: roses, lilies, gerberas and orchids among the blooms, eucalyptus, fern, ruscus and asparagus fern behind them, hand-tied and wrapped in cellophane or paper, often finished with ribbon. For funerals, white lilies and chrysanthemums are the conventional choice, with large standing wreaths placed at the church and graveside.
Valentine's Day on 14 February, when red roses are the standard gift, and Mother's Day, whose date varies by year and typically falls on a Sunday in spring, are the exception to the usual schedule: florists open for the big flower days, so your order can arrive even when the date falls on a Sunday. Order at least 48 hours ahead for either. Village feasts (festa) run parish by parish, mostly between May and September, with flowers decorating churches and statues for the processions, and Santa Marija, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, is the major religious feast for floral church decoration. On All Souls' Day, 2 November, flowers and wreaths go to cemeteries; at Christmas on 25 December, poinsettias and festive arrangements decorate homes and churches.
Someone mid-journey is almost impossible to reach with a delivery. An airport, a railway station, a cruise terminal — a person passing through is never in one place long enough for a driver to find them, so send to their hotel, office or home address instead, timed for after they arrive. Workplace deliveries are best aimed inside office hours, and it is worth picking a day you know the recipient will be at their desk, because a bouquet waiting at reception over a weekend helps nobody.
Ordering from another country takes a few minutes online, and a local florist handles the delivery, so the order crosses the distance and you stay where you are. A card message comes with every order at no extra cost, printed word for word: whatever you type is what they read, which makes it worth writing more than your name on the line. Type it in the box at checkout, before you pay, and the florist prints it as it stands.
Yes — order before 14:00 local time and your flowers can be delivered the same day. Orders placed after the cutoff are delivered on the next available day you choose at checkout.
Acceptance depends on the hospital and ward, so check before ordering; otherwise delivery goes to reception. Use the hospital's own city and full address, with the patient's full name and, where possible, the ward or room.
Yes. Include the guest's full name and, if you can, their arrival date or booking reference, so reception can match the delivery to the right guest.
Yes. Include the resident's full name and, where possible, the floor or unit. It is worth checking the residence accepts flower deliveries; reception will usually pass them on.
You can request a preferred time slot, but exact times cannot be guaranteed — deliveries follow the local florist's routes and workload for the day.
Yes. You can pick any future delivery date at checkout, which is the safest option around busy periods, and the calendar only offers dates that are available.
Wreaths and formal funeral pieces need 24-48 hours' notice, so place the order as soon as the details of the service are settled.