🚚 Important Shipping Info
Howdy bulb lovers,
🌸 ALL SUMMER BULB ORDERS ARE PRE-ORDERS 🌸
If your order contains even one Dahlia, Gladioli, Calla, Begonia, Gloriosa or other Summer bulb, your entire order will join the pre-order queue. New Summer bulb pre-orders placed now are expected to dispatch around 6 to 10 November.
Good news... all orders placed up to and including 17 October are done and dusted! 🌸📦
Most of our Summer bulb range has now been dug, cured, sorted, graded and counted, and the boxes are continuing to fly out the door.
Our big Dahlia stocktake launch on Sunday 18 October saw 1,800 orders fly in... crikey! We’ve already dispatched 81% of that batch, and the team is working through the rest.
Orders are dispatched mostly in the order they were received. The timeline below is our best estimate of when the remainder of each batch will leave us.
📦 Current Dispatch Progress
As of 29/10/26
Orders Placed up to 17 October
Progress: ✅ 100% dispatched
All done and dusted! Every order placed up to and including 17 October has now headed out the door 🎉
Sunday 18 October
Progress: 🚚 81% dispatched
Our big Dahlia stocktake launch brought in 1,800 orders... crikey! The remainder are expected to dispatch between 30 October and 2 November.
Orders Placed 19 to 31 October
Status: 🌸 In the pre-order queue
ETA: Expected to dispatch between 2 November and 5 November.
New Pre-orders
Status: 🌷 Joining the pre-order queue
ETA: New Summer bulb pre-orders placed now are expected to dispatch around 6 to 10 November.
📦 Is my order a pre-order?
Contains a Summer bulb? Yep... it’s a pre-order!
If your order contains a Dahlia, Gladioli, Calla, Begonia, Gloriosa, Hippeastrum or any other Summer bulb, the whole order will be held and dispatched together when your place in the pre-order queue is reached.
The only exception is orders containing only edibles, such as seed potatoes or asparagus, and/or non-bulb goodies such as fertiliser, gloves and soap. These are not part of the Summer bulb pre-order queue and will usually head out within a few working days.
📦 A few handy notes
We’re currently pumping out around 300 to 400 orders every day, mostly in the order they were received.
We generally send each order in one box rather than splitting it into separate shipments. This keeps courier costs down and helps prevent parts of your order from going walkabout.
Once your goodies have been packed and booked with the courier, we’ll flick you an email with your tracking details.
💌 From the farm
With all orders placed up to and including 17 October dispatched, we’re now working through the big 18 October stocktake launch batch. 81% are already on their way! Thanks for keeping us busy... that was one heck of a Sunday!
Thanks heaps for your patience while we work our way through it. We’ll keep these percentages and dates updated as we go, so check back anytime for the latest.
The Gravatts & the Bulbs Direct crew 🌸