Flower Delivery Hobart: Same Day

Send Flowers to Hobart Monday to Saturday

We took the kids to Hobart last year. Hired a Tesla for the week to see what all the fuss was about. Novel experience, I'll give it that. Couldn't charge at our Airbnb though, so we were relying on public chargers which wasn't ideal. And the range wasn't what I expected. Could have been the cold. Could have been the two teenagers and their copious amounts of makeup weighing us down. Jury's still out.

Living in Northern NSW, we grossly underestimated how cold Hobart would be. Arrived and it was 2 degrees. Windy. That kind of cold that hits your face and makes you question every decision. We're used to 22 degrees in winter. This was something else entirely.

The Tesla's range dropped in the cold. Might have been the battery chemistry, might have been the heating working overtime, might have been the teenagers and their straighteners. Whatever the reason, the car that promised 450 kilometres was giving us closer to 320.

Flowers have the same problem, except nobody warns you about it.

Anna, who spent fifteen years as a working florist before joining us, explains it like this: "It's not the cold that kills flowers. It's the swing. A bouquet sitting in a heated Melbourne warehouse, then loaded into an unheated mail van, then crossing Bass Strait overnight, then sitting in a cold Hobart depot. The temperature goes up and down and up and down. Tropical stems like Anthuriums can blacken within hours of that kind of stress. The cells don't get time to adjust."

This is why we don't post flowers to Tasmania. Our Hobart florists start with stems that are already acclimatised. Already conditioned in local temperatures. Already prepared for a Hobart winter morning. The flowers your recipient unwraps have never seen a mainland warehouse.

MONA was worth it though. Strange, confronting, brilliant. The kids pretended to be unimpressed but I caught them actually reading the exhibition notes.

Hobart means something to us beyond a holiday though. This page has existed almost as long as Lily's Florist has. Hobart was one of our very first delivery locations, back in 2008. Before we were a national network, before we had 800 partner florists, there was a shop in Kingscliff, a Yellow Pages ad we didn't know about, and a Hobart florist named True Colours Florist who said yes when we nervously asked if she'd help us with orders.

This is foundation ground for us.

What You're Probably Worried About

Ordering flowers online to Tasmania comes with specific anxieties. You're spending real money on something you'll never see, trusting a company you've never used, hoping it comes together for someone who matters.

"Will you actually deliver to Hobart, or just post from Melbourne?"

Most online florists don't have anyone in Tasmania. They box flowers in a mainland warehouse, post them, and call it delivery. Except posting to Tassie takes days. By the time flowers cross Bass Strait in a mail van, they're thirsty, bruised, petals going brown at the edges.

We have actual partner florists in Hobart. Your flowers are made fresh that morning. Delivered that afternoon. Not posted. Not bouncing around in transit for three days.

"Will they look anything like the picture?"

When a warehouse worker follows a recipe card, you get something that technically qualifies. When a trained florist with their own shop makes your order, you get something they'd put their name on. Our Hobart florists aren't anonymous. They have reputations in their own community. They're not sending their worst work out the door.

"Am I paying premium prices for average flowers?"

Our florists don't pay us membership fees. A $70 order means $70 worth of flowers, not $50 of flowers and $20 disappearing into franchise fees.

"What if something goes wrong?"

Call us. 1300 360 469. Real people answer, six days a week, based in Armidale. If something's not right, let us know within 24 hours. Send a photo. We'll sort it.

"I don't know what to pick."

Our Florist's Choice option lets our Hobart florist select the freshest arrangement for that day. Takes the guesswork out.

* This is a photo of our OG shop in Kingscliff in 2006 before going fully online with flowers 3 years later.

How Hobart Became One of Our First Locations

In 2006, Andrew and I bought a florist and gift shop in Kingscliff NSW. I was pregnant with Asha, we knew nothing about flowers, and our accountant told us not to do it. We ignored him.

The plan was to scale back flowers and focus on gifts. But that phone kept ringing. Previous owner had taken out a Yellow Pages ad (the actual book) and suddenly we were copping 40 plus calls a day. Our baby was trying to sleep in the back of the shop and that phone was loud.

Most calls were for places we couldn't reach. "Can you send flowers to Hobart?" We'd say sorry, we can't help. Over and over.

Then one freezing June day, barely any money in the till, we thought there has to be a way. What if we found a florist in Hobart and asked them to help?

We called True Colours Florist. Told them who we were, what we were trying to do. No membership fees, just a small commission covered by adding a few extra stems. She said yes.

That was the beginning. We built a website for her, gave her all the orders that came through it. She was getting 10 extra orders a week without spending anything on marketing. We were staying afloat. Everyone won.

Eventually managing separate websites became impossible, so we created one national brand. Lily's Florist. Built landing pages instead of standalone sites. Hobart was there from the start. This very page you're reading has been here since 2008.

Our competitors are tech companies who spotted a gap in the market. We're two people who owned an actual florist and figured out the rest as we went. That's why florists trust us. We've been where they are.

* Photo of the family and I on our trip to Hobart last year. Andrew, Ivy, me, and Asha

What to Send to Hobart

Different occasions need different thinking. Our partner florists in Hobart handle all of them, but here's what we've learned matters most.

Sympathy and Funeral Flowers

This is where Anna's fifteen years as a working florist show most. She gravitates toward whites, soft creams, and muted greens for sympathy arrangements. "There's a reason those colours work," she says. "They're calming. They don't compete with grief. Bright colours can feel jarring when someone's in that headspace."

Timing matters too. We don't just send flowers to a funeral home and hope for the best. Our florists call the director to coordinate delivery so the arrangement is fresh for the service, not sitting in a back room since dawn.

One customer told us: "A funeral wreath was delivered with less than 24hrs notice. Not only was the telephonist very helpful, she was also gentle and caring as I was very upset. Wreath exceeded my expectations."

That's what sympathy work looks like when it's done properly. Sympathy wreaths and sheaths start from $88. If you'd prefer something for the family home rather than the service, we handle that too.

Hospital Deliveries in Hobart

Royal Hobart Hospital sees plenty of our deliveries. Anna learned early that hospital flowers need different thinking. "The patient isn't getting out of bed to find scissors and a vase," she explains. "A boxed arrangement is the vase. Just set it down and it looks finished."

There's another consideration most people don't think about. Some hospitals restrict heavily scented flowers because the compounds can affect patients with respiratory conditions. "Lilies are often banned," Anna says. "For any medical delivery, I'd stick with gerberas, chrysanthemums, roses. Things that look beautiful but won't make a sick person feel worse."

When ordering for hospital, give us the ward, bed number, and recipient's mobile. If they've been moved, we'll track them down. Get well flowers from $54.

New Baby

Royal Hobart's maternity ward is another common delivery spot. Anna has opinions here too. "New baby flowers need to be fuss-free. Nothing that sheds petals, nothing with intense scent that might bother the baby, nothing that needs attention. New parents are not going to be trimming stems and changing water."

Our new baby arrangements come in boxes that don't require vases. Practical when someone's exhausted and juggling a newborn. Starts from $54.

Birthdays and Milestones

Birthday flowers are our most common Hobart orders. Milestone birthdays especially. 60th, 70th, 80th. Parents in Hobart, kids scattered across the mainland, can't make the trip across the strait. Flowers say you remembered.

Tasmania has beautiful native flora, and our Hobart florists know what's in season locally. If you want something distinctly Tasmanian, ask for natives in the order notes.

One recent review: "Absolutely legendary guys! The delivery was mega early, and the amount I got for the price was awesome."

Thinking of You (No Occasion)

Sometimes there's no birthday, no event, no reason. Just a reminder that someone's not forgotten. A text disappears into a phone. Thinking of you flowers sit on the kitchen bench for a week. Parents notice the effort. That's not a cop out. That's genuine thought when circumstances don't allow the trip.

Not Sure What to Pick?

Our Florist's Choice at $71.95 lets our Hobart florist select the freshest arrangement for that day. They know what came in from the markets, what's looking best, what will travel well in Hobart's cold. Takes the guesswork out.

If you're watching budget, flowers under $60 still get the same local florist treatment.

Same Day Flower Delivery to Hobart

Order by 2PM weekdays or 10AM Saturdays for same day delivery. Delivery fee is $16.95, subsidised if outer areas run higher.

Those cutoffs aren't arbitrary. Anna explains the Saturday one specifically: "Flower markets wind down Saturday afternoon. No trading Sunday. A florist who gets an order at 11am Saturday is working with whatever stock they bought that morning. They can make it work, but they need time. By 10am, the order's in, the arrangement's made by early afternoon, courier's got it delivered before the light goes. Push that later and something has to give."

In Hobart's winter, that light disappears fast. A 5pm delivery in June means a courier finding house numbers in the dark, flowers sitting on a cold doorstep if nobody answers. The earlier cutoff protects the delivery as much as the florist's schedule.

We cover Hobart and surrounding suburbs. Sandy Bay, Battery Point, North Hobart, New Town, Glenorchy, Kingston, Howrah. Further out towards Huonville or Richmond? Probably fine, but call and check.

Nobody home? Our courier finds a safe spot, out of the sun, out of sight from the street. If nowhere works, they call the recipient. We don't leave flowers to wilt on a doorstep.

For funerals, we contact the funeral home to coordinate timing. For hospitals, we need ward and bed number. These orders have stakes. We know that.

Business addresses usually see delivery by 5PM, residential by 7PM. Can't guarantee exact times, but we do our best.

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