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Footscray Florist - Melbourne Sustainable flower delivery

Well,  Footscray is certainly on the brink of a few big changes. With the new Footscray Hospital being built and due to arrive 2025, Franco Cozzo in talks with Moondog brewery to arrive, we have had a new walkway put in along Dalmahoy street leading to the famous Footscray Market. it’s all happening in Footscray. 

We continue to use sustainable practice within our flower designs and love using locally grown flowers for our Weddings in Melbourne and regional Victoria. We love being sustainable in our event floral work and look forward to creating flowers for your next occasion.

We are in...


Spring Flowers are here in Footscray

Spring Flowers are here in Footscray

Our Footscray Florist is stocked with Spring flowers. Please call to organise pick up orders or order online for flower deliveries across Melbourne. We are still Melbourne's leading Sustainable florist and are passionate about bringing you the freshest and most beautiful flowers.

Watch out for October arrivals of Lilac, Waratahs, Flannel Flower, Pin Cushions.


Sustainable Florist | Melbourne | Footscray

We have been practicing sustainable floristry from the day we opened in 2014. There has been lots to learn along the way. 


Heres why we don’t buy imported flowers. 


We love supporting local flower farms and love visiting the farms in the peak of seasons and getting to know the farmer. 


Imported flowers come smothered with chemicals and we don’t like putting our hands on them.

The carbon footprints involved in getting a bunch of non seasonal flowers from across the other side of the globe is massive and we like to keep our footprint low.

Lastly the Overuse of...


Valentines Day In Melbourne

Valentines Day In Melbourne

WE ARE DELIVERING FLOWERS TO ALL AREAS OF MELBOURNE THIS VALENTINES DAY - but not your typical red roses

I'd like to offer you a free tip for this Valentines Day. DONT buy imported roses (actually ever!) and for gods sake ask your florist to hold the floral foam and plastics! Both are damaging our planet to the max. Check out this bin of old blooms going to waste completely wrapped in plastic! (Aggghhhh Im crying right now.)

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WILD COLLECTIVE - Richmond, Cremorne, Melbourne, The World

So this style of bouquet, Wild Collective, seems to have been growing flower legs and walking out our Richmond door. Each day we are delivering flowers like these across all of Melbourne. Delivery areas include, Richmond, South Yarra, South Melbourne, Melbourne CBD, Abbotsford, Collingwood, Malvern, Hawthorn, Camberwell, Kensington, Flemington, East Melbourne, Albert Park, Windsor, Prahran, Heidelberg, Northcote, Fitzroy, Kew, St.Kilda, Elsternwick and plenty more  around our City. You can order yours online here, with us, at Lilac and the Cat. You'll be sure to have the most...