About
Blooming Gift Studio
We are a small flower and gift studio in Cannington, on the south side of Perth. Real people, market runs before sunrise, and bunches that leave the coolroom looking like they were picked that morning. Most of them were.
From a rented garage
to a proper little studio
Blooming Gift Studio Pty Ltd started with one florist, a secondhand van and a stubborn idea about how fresh a bunch should be.
A garage, a bucket, a Mazda ute
Mia starts selling weekend bunches out of a rented garage in Cannington. Customers are mostly neighbours, then neighbours' workmates, then people who drive across the river on purpose.
The coolroom changes everything
We sign the lease on Unit 2/66 Kent St and install a real coolroom. Stems stop wilting in the van over summer and the regulars notice within a fortnight.
Delivery number ten thousand
Somewhere between a Tuesday funeral tribute and a Friday wedding, Mick logs our ten thousandth delivery. We celebrate with dumplings from the shop next door, then get back to work.
Knocking through the wall
The unit next door frees up, so we take it. Twice the bench space, a corner for night workshops and a wall of polaroids from weddings we have done flowers for.
Still small on purpose
Around a dozen orders a day, three market runs a week and same-day delivery across Perth when the phone rings early enough. That is the size we like.
I still do the market run myself. If I would not put a stem on my own kitchen table, it does not go in your bunch.
Find us at Unit 2/66 Kent St, Cannington WA 6107, right next to the place with the good dumplings.
The rules we actually work by
Most flower shops order once a week and hope for the best. We are at the market three mornings a week before the doors properly open, because that is when the good stems are still on the trolley. If it is older than 48 hours, it does not come home with us.
We charge what a bunch costs to make, plus enough to keep the lights on and the van fuelled. If the cheaper option will do the job, we say so. That honesty is probably why people keep ringing us for weekly flower subscriptions instead of the big online stores.
And we would rather sell you a $65 bunch that sings than a $150 one that sulks by Wednesday.
Four people, one coolroom
No call centre, no gig drivers, no relay orders. The person who answers the phone is usually the person who ties your ribbon.
Mia Callaghan
Founder and head floristStarted the studio in a rented garage in 2019. Still does the dawn market run and most of the wedding consults herself.
Josh Ralston
Grower and market liaisonLives at the markets so the rest of us do not have to. On first name terms with growers from Roleystone to the Swan Valley.
Renee Kinsella
Weddings and events leadThe calm voice on the phone when a marquee floods or a ceremony moves. Builds installs that survive a February arvo.
Mick Donnelly
Dispatch and courier leadPlots every run so bunches spend minutes in the van, not hours. Six years on the road and zero flowers left in the sun.
We take on a junior florist most summers. If you can hold secateurs and a conversation at the same time, write to bloominggiftstudio@gmail.com with photos of something you have made.
What left the bench this month
Most of what we photograph gets delivered before we remember to post it. Here is what made it to camera.
Bigger jobs live on the wedding flowers page, and our hampers and gift boxes have their own page too.
The numbers we actually count
Pulled from the dispatch book and the coolroom log, not a marketing deck.
What we stand for, literally
These are taped to the coolroom door. New starters learn them before they learn the till.
- Bought at dawn. Most of our stock was still in the ground 24 hours before you hold it.
- The 48 hour rule. Anything older gets benched, composted or donated, never sold.
- Honest pricing. If the cheaper bunch does the job, we will tell you before you spend the extra.
- Nothing wrapped in plastic. Paper, jute and compostable wrap only, since day one.
- Good seconds go to aged care homes around Cannington, not to the skip bin.
- Everyone on the bench lives within 15 minutes of Kent St. Local jobs stay local.
- Our WA natives come from licensed pickers, never ripped out of the bush.
- Workshops run after hours, $65 a seat including a glass of Swan Valley white.
Press and pats on the back
We are not famous and we are fine with that. Here are a few kind words we did not pay for.
Mia talked us out of the pricier package and into the one that suited the room. That is not how shops usually behave.
Ordered at 9am from a hospital bed, bunch was in Mum's room by lunch with a handwritten card. Who does that anymore.
The tiny Cannington studio sending Perth's freshest postbags, one dawn market run at a time.
Where you might have seen us:
Asked at the counter this week
Still curious? Ring the studio on +61 8 9221 4976, or just come in. Someone is always near the bench.
Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 2pm.
Come smell the difference.
The studio is at Unit 2/66 Kent St, Cannington, open seven days. Duck through the coolroom, see what came in that morning, and tell us who the flowers are for.