Kiwi Flowers

About Us

Kiwi Flowers is run from Auckland, NZ by Jane and Doug Rickit and their daughter, Claire Sawyers. Being ex-commercial growers who now operate a dynamic e-tail florist outlet, their reputation locally for quality and variety is very highly regarded. Combine this with customer service that is second to none and the result is a winning team.

From backgrounds in Administration/ Personnel Consultancy and 20 years serving the community with the New Zealand Police respectively, Jane and Doug began growing flowers in 1993 at their family farm in Pukekohe. To further develop their business their first retail outlet was established in 1994.

The business grew and added some impressive names to its already long list of prestigious clients including The Heritage Hotel Auckland, South Auckland Health, Auckland Tennis, Mainzeal Construction and Bledisloe New Zealand Ltd, the largest chain of funeral homes in New Zealand.

In 2001, due to popular demand - and many suggestions from existing satisfied clients - Jane and Doug made the decision to go online.

Kiwi Flowers was formed to enable the customer service values established in the retail stores to benefit online customers. There was a real need for a site that had excellent photography showing the real beauty of flowers, clear details of the item being purchased and confirmation of the actual gift sent. There was a missing link. Jane and Doug were determined to raise the standard of online floristry in NZ by inventing the unique "E-Guarantee" email photograph service.

Jane and Doug have an experienced team of florists working behind them, complimented with part time assistants. Kiwi Flowers also has a custom designed delivery van zips around town with Jane, Pepper and Brindy at the wheel attending to as many Auckland deliveries as possible. Many a smile it has created as it arrives at the recepients address bearing goodies from friends and family afar.

In 2003 Jane and Doug's daughter Claire joined the Kiwi Flowers team behind the scenes. After much persuasion and with a new fresh approach, Claire has recently completely revamped our website as well as adding many of the new gift items available. In her role as Marketing Manager, Claire fights with a passion to make sure Kiwi Flowers is seen as much as possible, whether it be online or off.

Finally, no team is complete without a mascot! Pepper (aka. Rattie) our gorgeous, fun loving Schnauzer, joined Kiwi Flowers in the Christmas of '03 and soon became the darling of the company. But to her initial dismay and now delight, they were not content with just one- with the next recruit arriving in a delivery box on Valentines Day '05. Little Brindle (aka. Pirahna) has enthusiastically thrown herself into her role as chief water inspector and teddy bear thief of Kiwi Flowers and also pulls off a good impression of a Rottweiler when she is woken up abruptly! "Team Schnauzer" ensures all customers are greeted with a cautious but friendly sniff and are thoroughly entertained by their fascination with the chasing of brooms ...