Sending flowers to Kihikihi

Kihikihi is a Waipā District town of about 3,820 people on State Highway 3, 5 km south of Te Awamutu, which it serves as a satellite community. Its name means 'cicada' in Māori, imitating the insect's sound. Because many services are in Te Awamutu, a flower order for a Kihikihi family often ends up there – so we cover both.

Choose bouquet for Kihikihi

Order by 2 pm on weekdays (11 am Saturdays) for same-day delivery in many areas

Local florists make up and deliver the flowers
Hospitals: check the ward rules
Funerals: what to send and write

Colourful bouquet – send flowers to Kihikihi

Popular bouquets to send to Kihikihi

Made up by a florist near the recipient.

Order by 2 pm on weekdays (11 am Saturdays) for same-day delivery in many areas

Romance

Roses with seasonal stemsHave a look

Seasonal flowers

Florist’s pickHave a look

Cheerful birthday flowers in bright colours

Birthdays

Bright and colourfulHave a look

Get well

Sunny stemsHave a look

Sympathy

Lilies in soft tonesHave a look

New baby

Gentle coloursHave a look

Weddings

Generous bunchHave a look

Mother’s Day (May)

Florist’s pickHave a look

Send flowers for the right occasion in Kihikihi

Pick the moment and a local florist takes over.

Birthday

Add some colour to the big day

Anniversary

Roses that say you remembered

Hospital

Check the ward rules first

Mother’s Day

Second Sunday in May

Graduation

Ceremony dates by university

Sympathy & funerals

Where to send, and what to write

Love & romance

Valentine’s in a Kiwi summer

Cheerful flowers to help someone get well

Get well soon

Sunny stems for a recovery

Roses from the town next door

Te Awamutu, 5 km north, is often called 'The Rose Town of New Zealand' for the rose gardens in its town centre. Roses are an obvious choice for someone from Kihikihi or Te Awamutu. The Kihikihi Trail cycleway to Te Awamutu opened in 2017. Our Te Awamutu page covers deliveries there.

Swarbrick Drive, College Street and other Te Awamutu care homes

Aged-care homes for the area are in neighbouring Te Awamutu, not in Kihikihi itself:

CHT Te Awamutu Home & Hospital, 414 Swarbrick Drive
San Michele Home & Hospital, 175 College Street
Camellia Resthome, 1743 Rewi Street
Te Ata Rest Home, 588 Teasdale Street

Put the resident's full name and the home's name on the order.

Kihikihi Cemetery, Christ Church and Alexandra Street funerals

Kihikihi Cemetery is listed by Waipā District Council; railway surveyor John Rochford (1832–1893) is buried there. Christ Church (Anglican), built in 1881, is one of nine Heritage New Zealand listed places in the town. The nearest funeral home in our data is Te Awamutu Funeral Services at 570 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu. Sympathy flowers usually go to the funeral home or the family – ask first. Our funeral flower guide helps with the card.

Rewi Maniapoto, Ōrākau and the frontier town

The Māori chief Rewi Maniapoto lived in Kihikihi, and the 1894 Rewi Maniapoto Memorial and Reserve is a Heritage New Zealand listing. The Battle of Ōrākau was fought near the town from 31 March to 2 April 1864; Rewi's reply to a surrender offer is recorded as 'Ka whawhai tonu ahau ki a koe, ake, ake' – 'I shall fight you forever, and ever, and ever.' A memorial marks the general battle site on Arapuni Road, about 4 km east of Kihikihi; the pā site itself is on private farmland.

In the 19th century Kihikihi was described as a 'border settlement' or 'frontier town', and it was ruined in the 1880s by the 'Great Wet Peace' with the partition of the King Country. Its other heritage places include the c1868 Alpha Hotel, the 1883 Star Hotel, the 1904 Town Hall, the 1907 Constable's House and Police Station and the 1920 World War One Memorial – our Anzac Day guide covers flowers for 25 April.

Patients at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton

If your patient is at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, flowers are not allowed in Critical Care (ICU and HDU, Level 4 Meade Clinical Centre); check with the ward before sending. See our Waikato Hospital page.