Sending flowers to Katikati

Radius Lexham Park, Summerset and Athenree Life

Our data lists three aged residential care homes in the area:

• Radius Lexham Park, 3 Binnie Road, Katikati
• Summerset by the Sea, 181 Park Road, Katikati
• Athenree Life, 7 Marina Way, Athenree – a separate settlement north of Katikati

Write the home's name and the resident's full name on the order. A compact arrangement or a pot plant is often easiest in a resident's room.

Avocado and kiwifruit roads: RD addresses

With orchards all around, plenty of recipients live on rural roads. Use the RD number exactly as given (for example "RD 1"), add a phone number and gate notes, and allow extra time – rural addresses can take longer, and NZ Post no longer delivers parcels to most rural addresses on Saturdays. Katikati's climate records run from a high of 31.4 °C in February to a low of −3.2 °C in July, so a sheltered drop-off spot in the delivery notes helps blooms in both seasons.

Hot Spring Road cemetery, marae and Main Road funerals

Katikati Cemetery on Hot Spring Road dates from 1878 and is open. It has a Returned Services section and a children's section; plots can only be bought for immediate use while the council confirms additional land. Elliotts Funeral Services has a Katikati branch on the corner of Main Road and Sheffield Street. Ask the funeral director where flowers should go. The area has two marae, Te Rere a Tukahia (Ngāi Te Rangi) and Tuapiro (Ngāti Ranginui); for a tangihanga, our tangihanga guide is a useful starting point.

From Vesey Stewart's settlers to the Mural Contest

Katikati was established by George Vesey Stewart, who brought two groups of mostly Irish settlers on the Carisbrook Castle (1875) and the Lady Jocelyn (1878); many were Ulster Scots from County Tyrone. Kauri gum digging became an important industry in the late 19th century. The first mural, 'Waitekohe School', went up in 1990, and the town now holds the biennial NZ Mural Contest & Art Festival. You can pick up a mural map from The Arts Junction on Main Road, learn the local history at the Western Bay Museum, or visit Waitekohekohe Recreational Park and the Sapphire Springs hot springs, 3 km south of town.

Katikati College (Years 7–13) and Katikati Primary School (Years 1–6) are the town's schools – our graduation flowers guide has ideas for end-of-year milestones.

If the patient is in Tauranga Hospital

There is no hospital in our data for Katikati itself. If your patient is at Tauranga Hospital, its Health NZ page says you can send flowers directly to the wards throughout the day. See our Tauranga Hospital page, or the Tauranga page for city deliveries.

Places flowers often go in Katikati

Rest homes and care

• Radius Lexham Park
• Athenree Life (Athenree)
• Summerset by the Sea

Funeral homes

• Elliotts Funeral Services Katikati

Cemeteries

• Katikati Cemetery (Hot Spring Road)

Put the recipient’s ward, room or the funeral director’s name on the order so the florist can find them.