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Please don't order lilies for your friends and lovers if they have a cat. Really... a gift of flowers for a cat owner is... I won't say it's *always* a bad idea, but consider if the cat owner has any house plants.
If they have no house plants there is a *reason* for that. It's called: The Cat. You can have house plants OR a cat but not both. Cats chew on plants, and they will chew on lilies and get sick and possibly die. No, they don't know not to eat these plants. They dig right in.
Six years ago someone got me a huge bouquet of lilies. I knew that they were bad for cats, so I left them in the clear plastic wrapping as I made a call to a neighbor to give them away.
As I was on the phone, #picaTheCat found the flowers, started unwrapping them. They had been in the apartment less than 5min and she was already on her way to eating them! It's THAT bad.
Even if your friend DOESN'T have a cat, please don't get them lilies unless you know it's ok.
Usually my hayfever is only mild but lily pollen sets off everyone in the household, really badly. This can be prevented by cutting off the stamens before they ripen, but that's a tedious faff.
@regordane @futurebird also can be prevented by just... Not sending flowers! For my part I'd much rather someone bought me a houseplant, sponsored a bit of woodland or something. Flowers should grow outside where insects can benefit from and support them, not die a lonely death in my house.
@regordane @futurebird even better: dont get anyone anything unless you have their consent