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Shop ByFlower Delivery Austinmer NSW, Same Day
Your flowers can be at their door in Austinmer today. Order before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on Saturday, or pick a later date at checkout. Each bunch is made up on the day it travels. For a patient at Coledale Hospital on Lawrence Hargrave Drive, give their full name, and the unit if you know it. Have a look at our same-day flowers below, from $42.95. If you would rather talk, call us and one of our friendly, Australian-based team will walk you through it.
“From start to finish easy to deal with... the flowers were delivered exactly 60 minutes after I placed the order” Mark
“I live in WA and required a Vic flower delivery for a birthday. Panic. They lived up to their promise of same day delivery” Julie
“I made my order at 1.50pm on a Wednesday... my daughter received the flowers that afternoon” Maria
“I ordered late and the flowers were delivered same day... I received a photo from the recipient and they were beautiful” Bee
“I am in Canada... I ordered during NSW night time, my day time. Delivered same day. Still looked fresh after a week” Chris
“I tried ordering from the UK... had no joy at all with another florist. Lily’s came through like champs” John
“I live in England and wanted to send flowers to my daughter... she was over the moon with them” Cheryl
“My go to for interstate floral gift shopping... not a single issue in over 10 years” Marcia
“Always fresh, beautifully arranged and delivered on time. They even write my silly messages on the card” Kelly
“They know the stress of ordering flowers for interstate people when you don’t have the details or times right. They get it” Britta
“A bouquet sent to a friend two days away from a family funeral I could not attend. Thank you for being there when I could not” Julie
“Really grateful for the flowers they put together for my friend’s funeral... easy to pick during a stressful time” Viv
“The flowers I ordered were out of season. Lily’s sent me an email to advise me of this and let me choose again” Dee
“They weren’t home at delivery, so they were very appreciative to get a call letting them know where the flowers would be left” Sara
“Beautiful bouquet that looked exactly like the photo on the website. Perfect gift to send to a patient in hospital” Heeni
“Our very ill friend received her flowers the morning after I ordered them after hours, even though we didn’t know which ward” Geoff
“She especially mentioned the bright pink gerbera in the centre. Perfect size for the shelf at the hospital” Janice
“They made an effort to deliver on the day of my sister’s birthday rather than the day after. The teddy was my hug for her” Liz
“I’ve ordered from several florists in the area over past years and Lily’s has been the best” Kate
“I typed a message for a card in German. The card was handwritten with the words I typed in German. Mum was so happy” Stig
“My mother cried all day. A photo would not do justice, she informed me. Very happy with the outcome” Helen
“Promptly sent to celebrate the birth of my friends’ new baby... a florist I can rely upon” Kathryn
“Ordered for my aunt and uncle’s 60th wedding anniversary. My aunt sent me photos, they were absolutely stunning” Karyn
“They were beautiful, even better than the photo we chose them from. The flowers were so fresh and vibrant” Tina
“Still in great condition, which is fabulous given they were delivered 8 days ago. Still holding shape, and have not wilted” Peter
“It is now 9 days later and the rose is still beautiful and has not lost a single petal” Edel
“Recipient said flowers were beautiful and still very good 10 days later. Delivery person was very polite” Denise
“I do not like to order online so will only do phone orders. I spoke to Louisa, who was friendly and helpful” Toni
“The staff member was so helpful to me over the phone, I think her name was April. My sister was overjoyed” Thalia
“You didn’t have the flowers I selected, so you contacted me to advise. The replacement was loved by the recipient” David
“I was very impressed that you communicated about the different flowers being changed. They arrived on time” Serena
“I was concerned the gift would not reach its destination, being rural. It arrived within the promised time” Robby
“Great care shown to ensure they were delivered to the correct student in a large UQ College” Nicole
“A special thankyou to the delivery man for ringing my daughter to let her know he had put the flowers in the shade” Suzette
The cutoff, and what sets it
2pm weekdays, 10am Saturday, nothing Sunday. The cutoff is the florist's working afternoon: buy, build, drive.
Where it lands
A house above the beach, a bed at Coledale Hospital four kilometres north, an aged care room at Woonona, or a chapel at Bulli.
Which cemetery
Bulli Cemetery is closed to new burials unless the family already owns ground there, which the council states plainly. Scarborough at Wombarra still lists at-need sites.
Who makes it
We have no shop in Austinmer. It goes to a florist in or near Austinmer with the stems and the bench free that morning. Next section: what that costs you.
What Hand Delivered by a Partner Florist Costs You
The line at the top of this page
You have read that a partner florist delivers this. On its own that line does not tell you if it is good news.
What you give up
You cannot walk in and point at a bucket. There are shopfronts two kilometres up at Thirroul where you could, and today they beat us on it.
What you get instead
Built the morning it travels, so it has not sat two days boxed on a truck, and your order stops depending on one shop being open.
There is a commission in this and it exists. The florist adds flowers to cover it, they do not take flowers out. That is the trade, and better you have it now than at the door.
Out here the format decides more than the flowers do.
Anna, qualified florist | trained in North Carolina, three years on a beachfront bench at Kingscliff
Ask me what goes wrong on a coastal doorstep and I will give you the same three marks. Water gone. Stems kinked a third of the way up. One side of every head bruised flat. I learnt to read them at a shop on the Kingscliff beachfront.
People sending to a beach suburb worry about heat. Summer here tops out at twenty-five degrees and a rose gives seven to ten days. Wind is the number. Bellambi, five kilometres south, averages twenty-three kilometres an hour at 3pm, and a tall vase hands that a flat face to push on.
A carnation runs three weeks in a cool room and three days beside a bowl of fruit, because ripening fruit gives off ethylene. Same room is enough to do it.
So make the format decision before the flower decision. The stems are the easy part.
The Format Decision, Made Before You Pick a Stem
Five formats, one exposed Austinmer doorstep
Wind figure: Bureau of Meteorology, Bellambi AWS station 068228, mean 3pm wind speed 23.3 km/h, annual, 13 year record. The ratings are ours, from what our florists run into on open coastal addresses and on ward and care-home runs.
Format
On an open step
Ward or care room
What happens
Box arrangement
Holds
Best
Weight low, carries its own water, no vase to find
Low posy vase
Usually holds
Good
Wide base, fits beside the medical gear
Tall glass vase
Tips
Poor
Broad face to the breeze, water out by six
Wrapped hand tied
Holds
Poor
Somebody has to find scissors, a vase and ten minutes
Wreath or sheaf
Not a doorstep
Not a room
Goes to the funeral director with the service time
Four of those five decisions get made at the order form, in about eight seconds, by somebody who will never see the doorstep.
Weekdays close at 2pm, Saturdays at 10am, so the format is usually the only decision left.
Let the Florist Build ItWhat to Send to Austinmer, and Where It Has to Go
Sympathy runs first here and a long way ahead, which the beach photos hide well. If you know what you want, the flower bunches are the quick way in.
Which Cemetery Is It, Bulli or Scarborough?
Flowers will not touch what has happened and you know that. What they do is stand in a room you cannot get to.
Funeral or family home, two addresses, both right. Condolences go to the house. Service flowers go to the funeral directors at Bulli with the chapel and service time on the order, and the family will know which cemetery is theirs. Sympathy to the home goes the same afternoon.
Colour is where this suburb stops behaving like the rest of the country.
Just over half of Austinmer wrote no religion on the last census, so white is right in a chapel and a coin toss at a celebration of life. Ask what she grew and what colour she wore. If nobody knows, send banksia and kangaroo paw. Keep the card short; thinking of you and your family is enough.
What Actually Works in an Aged Care Room
It has been a while, and you do not need a better reason. Nearly every bed within ten kilometres of Austinmer is long-stay, so thinking of you carries better than get well. In our experience it lands at reception under her full name, and nobody on that floor has ten minutes for vase water, which is the argument for an arrangement that carries its own. If the room is a dementia unit, the flowers may mean more to you than to her. Send them anyway.
Anna on what survives a room nobody attends to
Chrysanthemum, carnation and lisianthus: two weeks with no attention, no scent for a shared bay, no staining pollen on a bed table. If comfort matters more than longevity, send what she gardened.
Weekdays close at 2pm, Saturdays at 10am.
Browse Box ArrangementsNot Sure What to Send? Start With the Format
Neither card above has to match. A birthday here has its own problem: four in ten residents are professionals working sixteen kilometres down the road, so the house is empty until six.
Send the sixty to eighty dollar box and let the florist pick the stems.
The bigger number changes the character of a bunch before it changes the size. Under sixty dollars is a smaller version of the same idea. Above eighty you move into protea and orchid. In the middle, natives give the longest life per dollar we sell.
Austinmer Delivery Questions, Answered Straight
What is the real same day cutoff for Austinmer?
2pm Monday to Friday, 10am Saturday, nothing Sunday. The Sunday gap is the market's doing: Sydney's flower market trades 5am to 9am Saturday and does not reopen until Monday.
Which hospital is nearest to Austinmer?
Bulli Hospital and Aged Care Centre is roughly three kilometres south, Coledale roughly four north, and neither runs an emergency department. Anything acute goes to Wollongong Hospital, where the ward restrictions bite hardest.
What happens if nobody is home above the beach?
The florist finds the most sheltered spot, usually a side gate or covered porch. Name it on the order and leave a mobile: an open step plus a north-easterly puts a tall vase on its side inside an hour.
Browse by what you need
Ordering Same Day Flowers for Austinmer
Same day
By 2pm weekdays, 10am Saturday. Monday to Saturday.
Delivery
A flat fee across 2515 and up to Coalcliff, subsidised: a single drop to a village this size costs us more most days. From $42.95.
If something is wrong
Ring 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays. Tell us inside 24 hours and send two photos, front and back. The back settles it.
The Saturday problem, and the fix
The Saturday cutoff is 10am, the run goes out late morning, and half of Austinmer is at the beach or at nippers until afternoon, so Saturday meets more empty houses than any other day. Name a safe place and leave a mobile. Order before 2pm on a weekday and it reaches the door that afternoon.
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After You Order
An order number lands in your inbox within minutes and the job goes down the coast with a date on it and a price already paid. Most recipients send a photo, some take a day. A quiet afternoon is not a verdict.
Andrew, who took the calls from 2006 to 2013
Wet winters were the weeks I dreaded on that phone, and 2011 and 2012 were both wet ones. Rain on the escarpment, the pass backed up above Bulli, a forty minute run taking the afternoon. The ones that stayed with me were the service orders. So we hold 2pm, and when somebody rings at ten past two with a service next morning, the honest answer costs us the order. We take that.
ABN: 17 830 858 659
Nearby, on the same coast run
Bulli has the chapel strip and the hospital, Woonona the aged care beds, Clifton and Coalcliff the landslip road north.
About the Author
* The original Kingscliff shop, bought 2006. The brand and the network came three years later.
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