Flower Delivery Coombabah: Same Day

Ordering Flowers to Coombabah

Coombabah sits right in that pocket of the northern Gold Coast where the M1 spits you out and suddenly you're navigating roundabouts and suburban streets. I know this stretch well because for years, if we weren't grabbing sushi at Runaway Bay before training or games, we were cutting through Coombabah to get there. It's one of those suburbs you pass through a hundred times before you really see it. Quiet streets, mix of older homes and new builds, the kind of place where people actually live rather than just holiday.

When you order flowers through us to Coombabah, a local Gold Coast florist puts together your arrangement that morning using what's fresh at the markets. They're a real shop with a real address and real people who know these streets. That's how we've always worked. No warehouse, no flowers sitting in a box truck for 48 hours.

* You order. We connect with a local florist. They deliver. No post, no boxes.

Same day delivery is available if you get your order in before 2pm on weekdays or 10am on Saturdays. Delivery is $16.95 and yes, we're subsidising that because actual delivery costs on the Gold Coast often run higher, especially with fuel and traffic the way it is. No Sunday delivery though, and Anna, our florist who spent fifteen years on the bench before joining us, will tell you exactly why that matters.

Why We Don't Deliver on Sundays

Anna has a rule about this. "Flower markets close Saturday afternoon," she explains. "So anything going out Sunday is Friday stock. By Sunday, you've already lost about thirty percent of the vase life. Three days of sitting around before the flowers even arrive at someone's door. That's not a delivery, that's a compromise."

I asked her once if we could work around it somehow, source from somewhere else. She looked at me like I'd suggested putting the milk in before the tea. Some things just don't work that way.

What to Send to Coombabah

If you're sending for a birthday or just because, our Florist's Choice at $71.95 gives the local florist creative freedom to use what's best and freshest that day. Seasonal flowers, properly conditioned, no awkward substitutions forced by a rigid recipe.

For sympathy flowers, Anna steers toward whites, soft creams, and muted greens. "There's a reason those colours work," she says. "They're calming. They don't fight with grief." If flowers are going to a funeral home or wake, our florist can coordinate timing with the director. That kind of detail matters and it's something the good ones just do without being asked.

Hospital deliveries need different thinking. We send boxed arrangements or flowers already in a vase because hospital rooms don't have counter space, scissors, or spare vases lying around. The last thing a patient needs is a beautiful bunch they can't actually put anywhere.

Not sure what to send? Call us on 1300 360 469 and talk to someone who can help. Australian voices, Australian call centre. We can walk you through the options and find something that fits your budget. We have flowers under $60 if that's where you need to land.

A Familiar Drive

Here's the thing about Coombabah for us. For years, Friday nights meant driving across to Carrara for Ivy's basketball with HDNA Heat. And most of the time, especially if Asha was coming along, we'd stop at Runaway Bay first. There's a sushi place we like and it became part of the ritual. Grab dinner, watch the game, drive home. Coombabah was always on that route, the bit between the M1 exit and actually getting where we needed to be.

I remember Asha coaching at Tallebudgera Rec Centre for four years. That was her thing while she was still at school. Now she's playing in her 2026 team and here's a strange aside: Cam Smith's daughter plays in the same team. I'm still not entirely used to seeing him at games. There's something surreal about casual sideline small talk with someone you've watched on television for decades. Not sure how long he'll be around given footy season is starting and he's got a new role with the Broncos, but for now, the Gold Coast sport parent world is a small one.

* Our family in 2024. We started Lily's Florist in Kingscliff when Asha was a baby. Now we coordinate 800 plus partners while driving to netball, ande that is a LOT!

How Your Order Reaches Coombabah

You order through our website or over the phone. We match your order with a local Gold Coast florist who can get it there same day. They make the arrangement fresh, using flowers from that morning's market run. Then they deliver it themselves.

No middlemen warehouses. No flowers sitting in cold storage at a distribution centre. The florist who makes your arrangement is usually the same person who carries it to the door. That's the model we built back in 2009 when we realised trying to ship flowers across the country from one central location was never going to work.

Our network has over 800 partner florists now. We don't charge them membership fees and we don't take a slice off the top of their labour. They add a few extra stems to cover our commission and pass on the full value to you. It sounds simple because it is. The complicated version involves warehouses and box trucks and wilted petals. We went the other way.

* This is the shop we bought in 2006. Zero experience, a baby on the way, and our accountant told us not to do it. Our first partner was actually in Miami, actually she was also our friend from Pottsville where we lived for 3 years but she worked there and helped to hook it up.

What Other Customers Have Said

One customer from England sent flowers to Runaway Bay and wrote: "Website easy to follow. Great flowers - a very happy Aunty. Thankyou will definitely order from you again."

Anna reads reviews like this because she knows what they reveal. "When someone says the aunt was happy, that's not just politeness," she told me. "It means the flowers arrived looking good. Not stressed, not wilted from sitting in heat. Happy flowers make happy recipients. You can't fake that."

Another customer wrote: "Beautiful arrangement. Still going strong after 2 weeks!" Anna's response: "Longevity tells you everything about stem selection and hydration. A pretty photo means nothing if the flowers are wilting by day three. When someone says two weeks, that florist selected properly."

We've got over 23,000 verified reviews on Feefo and we've won their Trusted Service Award for 2024, 2025, and 2026. Not because we asked for it but because enough customers took the time to say something.

* Feefo Trusted Service Award 2026. Three years running now and 23,000 reviews later.

If Something Goes Wrong

Call us or email within 24 hours. Send photos of both sides of the arrangement. We'll sort it out, whether that means a replacement delivery or a refund. Contact [email protected] for any changes after you've ordered.

About the Author

Siobhan Co-founder, Lily's Florist

Siobhan runs Lily's Florist alongside her partner Andrew from their base near the Gold Coast. They bought a flower shop in Kingscliff in 2006 with zero experience, against their accountant's advice, and somehow turned it into an Australia-wide network of over 800 partner florists. Their daughters Asha and Ivy grew up in the business and most decisions are still made at the dinner table or on the drive to sport.

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