You are sending flowers to someone at work on the industrial estate, to a relative at the caravan park, or to a Clay Street address. Most Bohle orders land in one of those three places, and the arrangement sits in front of whoever else is around. Reception staff, a neighbour at the park, the partner who opens the door. Whoever sees it will see what you chose. We have run flowers into this suburb for close to seventeen years. The driver knows the Enterprise Street turn-off without looking at the GPS.
The suburb is 121 people on a 2021 count, but the Bohle Industrial Estate running off Ingham Road carries most of the delivery volume. The 484-hectare defence transmitter in the north takes no flowers at all. Five kilometres from the airport, ten from the CBD. The partner florist's northern run passes through the estate most mornings, which keeps the Bohle delivery window tight. I am Andrew Thomson. Siobhan and I started Lily's Florist in 2009, and our partner florists cover Bohle same day when the order comes in before 2pm.
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The purple statice is the quiet workhorse. After the tulips drop and the roses loosen at day ten, the statice keeps its colour on a reception desk for another fortnight. Papery bracts, near-zero moisture, dries in place.
View ProductArrangement format, built in whatever vessel suits the delivery. Usually a compact foam box for a warehouse reception, sometimes a vase for a Clay Street home. The florist shops the market that morning and builds with what came in strongest. The freedom to choose is the freshness advantage.
View ProductStaggered fade. Gerberas go first at day seven. Roses hold through day ten. Carnations run to day fourteen. A retirement at the industrial estate that lands on a Thursday still has colour on the kitchen bench by the following Friday.
View ProductAnna's counter-pick. Beautiful flower. Wrong for most Bohle addresses. Asiatic pollen stains hi-vis and office paper. Tall stems do not suit a caravan annexe. If sending here, ask the florist to strip the anthers before delivery.
View ProductStarting from $42.95 (single wrapped rose). Delivery $16.95. Browse all flowers.
Same day to Bohle. Order before 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays and the flowers are at reception, the caravan park, or the Clay Street door this afternoon. Delivery fee $16.95 (subsidised). Prices start from $42.95 for a single wrapped rose.
Phone 1300 360 469, 7am to 6pm weekdays, 10am Saturdays. Ordering from another state is fine. Our team takes the whole order on the phone.
Send Flowers to Bohle TodayMost florist sites do not show you a product and tell you it is the wrong pick. We put the yellow lilies up because people search for them and they are beautiful. On the right day, to the right address, they land. Bohle is not that address. Asiatic lily pollen drops orange onto whatever sits underneath the flower, and whatever sits underneath it at a warehouse reception is usually paperwork, a hi-vis hanging on a hook, or someone's lunch. The pollen stain does not come out. I took enough calls from angry customers whose recipient had orange streaks across a work shirt to know this is not a rare event. It is the standard outcome if the anthers are not stripped before delivery.
The fix is simple. The florist pinches the anthers off each floret as it opens. Takes thirty seconds. If you are determined to send lilies into the industrial estate, put it in the delivery notes. The partner florist covering this area will do it without argument. If you have no strong reason for lilies, one of the three other picks above covers the same emotional register without the pollen problem.
The caravan park on Ingham Road is the other complication. Those sites are small. A tall lily bunch in a cylinder vase takes up counter space that does not exist in a van annexe. The ones I steered toward the park over the years were compact arrangements in a box, or a wrapped bunch the recipient could rest on a shelf without rearranging the whole kitchen. Hand-tied bunches are fine if the delivery notes mention it is going to the park, because the florist will size it sensibly rather than sending the tallest version they build.
Workplace deliveries to the industrial estate are a different beast again. The address is a warehouse, a portable site office, or a reception desk at a factory. The flowers arrive while the recipient is on the floor or out on a run. The staff at reception sign for it, move it to a bench or counter, and the recipient walks past it when they come in for smoko. What survives that morning on a steel bench in a warehouse is not a delicate stem. Carnations, chrysanthemums, gerberas, mixed native combinations. Protea if you want to make a statement. I would steer away from open roses and hydrangeas in summer because the warehouse air conditioning strips humidity and those petals dry from the edges inward by mid-afternoon.
The partner florist covering Bohle works from a bench where the flowers came in that morning from the Rocklea market truck. The order pings through to their inbox within the hour, usually while they are conditioning the day's stock. They build it. They drive it. Twelve minutes from the shop to the industrial estate on a normal Tuesday. Longer on a wet-season afternoon when Ingham Road is slow.
* What happens to your order when it hits the Lily's Florist flower network, from confirmation to the delivery address.
Workplace orders into the industrial estate skew toward promotions, retirements, and the quiet sympathy bunch when someone on the crew loses a parent. Residential orders to Clay Street and the caravan park skew older: birthday, get well, thinking of you. The two cards below cover both. A bunch that works on a Clay Street kitchen bench may not survive a Friday afternoon in a warehouse office, which is why the detail on the delivery slip matters as much as the flower on the counter. If you are sending a workplace celebration, start with Card 1.
Sending flowers to someone at work is not a quiet gesture. Reception sees it when it lands, half the crew walks past it at smoko, and whoever the recipient is will be watched for a few minutes when they come in off the floor. One colleague photographs it for the group chat. Another asks what the card said. The photo test matters more here than at home, where only the recipient sees it. A colleague's milestone birthday, a retirement, a congratulations on a promotion, a quiet bunch when someone on the crew loses a parent. Most workplace orders into Bohle are one of those four.
Name the company in the delivery address, not just the street number, and put the recipient's name in the delivery notes. Reception signs for deliveries across the estate, then the package sits on a counter or a shared bench until the recipient comes through for smoko or the shift change. Add a line about the handover. "Please leave at reception for [name], they will collect at 3pm" is enough. The florist writes it on the delivery ticket. The driver reads the ticket on the run. Order before 2pm if the occasion is today. Orders coming in at 3pm for same-day to an industrial address are asking the system to do something it cannot reliably do when there is a market run, a conditioning window, and a twelve-minute drive between the florist and Ingham Road.
The card gets read in front of whoever is at reception, and then the recipient either takes it back to their bench or leaves it with the flowers for everyone to see. Keep it short. One sentence, two at most. "Congratulations on the promotion, mate" reads better than three paragraphs at a reception desk where the next delivery is already arriving. I steered callers away from long messages on workplace orders because the recipient rarely shares them, but the colleagues always ask what it said. Write it for the audience as well as the person.
If you are sending to the caravan park, there is a fair chance the recipient moved there after downsizing and you are a few hours away or interstate. You come up when you can. The flowers bridge the bits in between. Clay Street is different. Smaller residential pocket, standard door deliveries, the recipient is usually home by the time the driver arrives. Most Bohle residential orders come in as a birthday for someone older, a get well, or a thinking of you because you have not been up in a while.
Park addresses need the site number in the delivery address, not just Ingham Road. The site office accepts deliveries if the resident is out. From what our florists have seen, a verandah or awning safe-drop is fine at a Clay Street address in dry weather. A note in the delivery instructions is worth including. "Leave under the awning" does the job. The recipients at the park tend to be older, and the ones I took calls about were often embarrassed about the size of the space when their daughter or son rang worried the arrangement would not fit. It always fit. The florist scales what they build to the address when the notes say "caravan park" or "site [number]".
One call I remember was from a woman in Melbourne whose mum had moved to a van after selling the family home. The mum did not pick up when the flowers landed. She rang her daughter three days later because she had been out fishing with the neighbours. The delay in calling back did not mean anything went wrong. It meant the recipient was living a life you are picturing differently from where you are sitting.
Florists Choice Bright Mixed Bunch from $79.95. Delivery $16.95.
Order Before 2pm for Same DayNone of the situations above matched. You do not need to fit a category to send flowers to Bohle. If you are stuck between the four picks up top and the yellow lilies are out, the Florist's Choice Arrangement covers workplace, caravan park, and Clay Street in one product. Box format means reception does not hunt for a vase, the caravan annexe has a shelf for it, and a kitchen bench looks right. The florist builds from the strongest stock at market that morning. Some mornings that is roses and ranunculus. Some mornings it is chrysanthemums and lisianthus. Both are good work. Call 1300 360 469 if you want to talk it through.
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10am Saturdays
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Order before 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays for delivery that afternoon. No Sunday delivery. Orders after cutoff roll to the next working day.
$16.95 subsidised flat fee anywhere in Bohle QLD. Flowers arrive hand-delivered by the partner florist covering the northern Townsville runs.
The Bohle Industrial Estate and the caravan park both sit near flood-prone ground between the Bohle and Ross rivers. Townsville City Council holds flood hazard overlays over parts of the estate in their planning scheme. In major wet-season rain events, from what our florists have seen, access to some addresses on Enterprise Street and lower Ingham Road can slow while the water comes off. In a normal week, the run is twelve minutes from the shop. On a 150mm rain day in February, it is longer. If you are ordering during an active weather event, call us on 1300 360 469 and we will tell you what the driver is seeing. Send a Thank You to Bohle
Mrs Paula ordered florist's choice flowers for next-day Friday delivery. The courier was not working until Monday, so the flowers went out then instead. That is a Type 5 complaint in the making. Late delivery on a birthday is disappointing. Late delivery on a funeral is unrecoverable. What stopped this one from turning into a one-star review was the call. Mrs Paula got a personal call explaining why the Friday delivery could not happen, and the flowers went out on the Monday. By the time the recipient opened the door, the sender already knew why it had been delayed and what the fix was.
Most people who ring with a late-delivery problem are not angry when they start the call. They become angry when nobody listens. Mrs Paula finished her review with "I would use Lily's Florist again for deliveries." That is not the line a person writes after a bad experience. It is the line a person writes when the business did something wrong and then did the work to make it right. The bright colours and the floral selection landed because the florist had three days to choose the stock and nobody was rushing the arrangement out the door under pressure.
Once your order goes through, it hits our system the same way every order has since 2009. Payment confirms automatically. The address, the card message, and any delivery notes go to the partner florist covering the northern Townsville runs. The florist has the order on the bench within an hour on a normal weekday. If it is a Saturday order, the cutoff is 10am and the same run happens on a tighter window. When the delivery address is on the industrial estate, the driver runs it between the morning residential deliveries and the afternoon school pick-up window so the flowers land at reception in time for them to be logged and moved before the recipient comes through.
If something goes wrong, ring us on 1300 360 469 or email [email protected] the same day with a photo of the arrangement. I ring the florist myself and ask what happened. The fix usually lands before the day is over. Most problems come down to a substitution the florist made without checking. That is fixable if we hear about it early. Not three days later.
Andrew handles the operational side and he is better at it than I am. What I can add is this. When the flowers arrive and the recipient does not ring back straight away, it does not mean anything went wrong. Someone in a caravan park on a Tuesday morning might have the radio on and the door shut. A bloke at a warehouse reception is probably on the forklift when his flowers land, and he will not see them until smoko. The staff at reception signed for it and put it on the counter. He will find it in an hour. Give the day a bit of room before you assume the worst. The photo is usually in your inbox by evening.
If it is still bothering you by the next morning, call. That is what the number is for.
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