Colourful Bunch Including Chocolates

A mixed colour hand tied bunch with a box of chocolates, built for the sender who wants colour without committing to a single palette. $129.95 including the chocolates, same day delivery by a partner florist before 2pm weekdays. The bunch features roses, freesia, lisianthus, carnations, statice and complementary foliage across red, pink, yellow, lilac and cream. The chocolates are boxed and travel alongside the flowers as a separate element.

The glass vase in the photograph is for display purposes. It is not included. You can add a vase at checkout, or the bunch will arrive hand tied and wrapped ready to drop into any vase at home.

What The Florist Is Building

The bunch reads as generous mixed colour built around six flower types. Working from the top of the dome down, yellow freesia spikes sit at the upper edge, several florets already open and several still in tight bud. Freesia opens sequentially from the bottom floret upward, which is the quiet trick of the stem. It also carries the only real fragrance in the arrangement.

The focal roses anchor the middle of the dome. Two or three deep red standard roses sit at half open on delivery day, petals just starting to reflex. Pink roses of similar variety sit beside them, slightly paler, slightly smaller. The tonal step between a red rose and a pink rose placed next to each other adds a depth that matched clusters of either colour would miss.

The trumpet shaped purple blooms clustered through the middle section are lisianthus. Several flowers per stem, some open, some still tight. Customers who rang Anna at the Pottsville home office often described these as the rose looking flower that isn't a rose. Lisianthus holds well past a week in a vase, reads as expensive, and handles warm rooms better than roses do.

The cream and pink carnations sit through the lower middle of the dome, ruffled heads carrying visual weight. The small deep purple florets scattered as filler are statice, technically limonium, which dries in place without collapsing. A secondary yellow element lower in the arrangement looks like spray carnations selected for the brighter shade. The deep burgundy texture at the outer edges reads as either spray roses or hypericum berries, and behaves the same way either way by holding its visual weight after the roses finish.

Jane wrote on 18 February 2026: "The flowers were as beautiful is the picture which is often not the case." That's the target for the florist on every build of this product.

Why It Sits At Seventh Nationally

This bunch was the seventh most popular product across the Lily's Florist range nationally last year. The format hasn't changed much in fifteen years. The composition shifts slightly across seasons as stems come and go, but the architecture is stable. Mixed hand tied bunch in red, pink, yellow and purple, with a box of chocolates beside it.

Anna has been with Lily's Florist since 2010. She took inbound calls from our Pottsville home office through the early years and moved across to bookkeeping in 2018. She has processed or quoted orders for earlier versions of this bunch several thousand times.

A product that reaches seventh is rarely the flashiest in the range. It's the one the buyer lands on when the decision is wearing them down.

What The Price Is Doing

At $129.95, this sits toward the upper end of the bunch range. The flower content reads as around $75 to $85 of retail stem value. The rest covers hand tie labour and the chocolate bundle. The combined spend produces a different product from the $80 versions, with more stems and a physical gift alongside the flowers.

The chocolates pull more weight than their price. A box alongside the flowers lifts the whole send from "flowers" to "considered gift," which is what the sender was already after. The hesitation that shows up on the base mixed bunch tends to disappear once chocolates are in the cart.

About Gerard's Review

Gerard wrote on 27 March 2026: "Easy to use and order however what was order and what was delivered looked very different. The flowers were no where near as full as the picture on the website."

We publish this review because hiding complaints helps no one, and Gerard's complaint is one we've seen variations of across the years. Anna's fifteen years on the bench before Lily's gives her the vocabulary for what usually causes this specific gap.

Jane's review earlier on this page shows the ceiling when the photo gap closes. Gerard's review is what happens when one of the three causes Anna describes kicks in. If you have had a similar experience with a Lily's Florist delivery, email [email protected] or call 1300 360 469 within 24 hours of delivery and attach a photograph. We handle these diagnoses case by case. The outcome depends on what the photo actually shows, but every genuine complaint reaches a real person on the Armidale team.

Who Sends This One

The order pattern across the years Anna spent answering phones shows four overlapping archetypes.

Long distance tops the list. A sender in another state or another country picks this product because physical presence isn't an option, and a mixed bunch with chocolates carries more weight than a single variety when the sender can't turn up to compensate with their face. Maria ordered this bunch from Canada on 30 March 2026, which is a reasonably typical origin story for the product.

Apology orders are close behind. Someone needs to make up for a forgotten date or a rough argument and doesn't know what would land. A send of apology flowers that covers four colours and arrives with chocolates hedges every preference. Something in that order lands, which is the psychological work the sender needs.

Then there are the safe-gift buyers, ordering for a colleague, a friend's parent, or a recipient whose tastes aren't known to them. Committed palettes are high risk in those situations. Mixed colour solves the problem without requiring research on the sender's part.

The fourth pattern is the upgrader. Started with a cheaper mixed option, felt it looked thin in the cart, and moved across to this product because the chocolates rounded the whole send out. It's the natural step up from the entry level mixed bunch for a sender who wants the delivery to land as a proper gift rather than a quick hit.

Occasion wise the bunch shows up across birthdays, thank yous, thinking of you sends, just because orders, and early stage romantic interest where red roses alone would read as too committed. The Bright Bunch With Vase at $99.95 is the vase-inclusive alternative with a similar mixed palette. The Blue Mist Bunch With Chocolates is the same concept in a cooler palette.

The Staged Fade

The long advantage of a mixed bunch over a single variety is how the fade staggers. A dozen roses peaks and finishes together. You get a run of good days and then the whole arrangement needs to come out. This bunch works differently. Different flowers hit their prime at different points across the fortnight.

Anna fielded these calls for three years from the Pottsville home office.

Mixed bunches outperform single variety arrangements on this exact question. Customers who know to watch past the roses get the second week.

Care

When the bunch arrives, strip every leaf that sits below the waterline before you put the stems in a vase. Leaves below the waterline rot. Bacteria from the rot climbs the stem and blocks the drinking channels. Once those channels are blocked, the flower stops taking up water. Skipping this single step can cost roughly a fifth of the potential vase life.

Change the water every third day and recut the stems at forty five degrees when you do. A fresh cut reopens the vascular system. If you skip the recut, the stems draw water through progressively narrower and dirtier openings.

Keep the arrangement away from the fruit bowl. Ripening fruit releases ethylene gas, which tells cut flowers to finish faster. Roses and carnations are particularly sensitive to it. A west facing windowsill in Australian summer will fade red roses to dusky pink within forty eight hours and turn pink roses chalky, so pick a spot with ambient light rather than direct sun. Full care notes across all flower types live in our caring for your flowers guide.

Delivery

The bunch is hand tied by a partner florist in the recipient's suburb and delivered the same day for orders placed before 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays. Delivery is $16.95 across Australia. The actual wholesale cost of same day flower delivery is higher than that, and the difference is absorbed as part of the order. No Sunday deliveries, because the wholesale markets close Saturday afternoon and stale stems on a Sunday aren't worth sending.

If anything about the delivery isn't right, email [email protected], call 1300 360 469, or use the live chat on the site within 24 hours of arrival. Attach a clear photograph of what was delivered. The Armidale team handles complaints in person.

Substitution Policy

Every stem listed above is what the partner florist aims for on the day. Wholesale supply doesn't always cooperate. Freesia sometimes arrives short on a particular colour, lisianthus occasionally runs out by Thursday afternoon, and spray carnations shift across the year depending on which growing regions are in season. When a specific stem isn't available, the partner florist substitutes on colour and proportion rather than on variety. Yellow freesia that hasn't turned up might become yellow spray roses or yellow stock. Purple lisianthus might become purple matthiola or a soft purple chrysanthemum. The florist protects two things: the mixed palette and the overall generosity of the bunch. Colour balance across the dome is the guiding principle on any swap. Substitutions are always equal or greater value than the stem they replace.

If you want a specific flower guaranteed, call 1300 360 469 before placing the order. We can check what the partner florist in the delivery suburb has in their cool room today and confirm before the order is accepted.

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