Flower Delivery Glebe: Same Day

We walked through the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens on one of the Hobart afternoons. Freezing. I was underdressed, Andrew was underdressed, we'd packed like idiots. From inside the gardens you can see Glebe rising up behind them, these old wooden terraces on the ridge, three and four storeys high. Tiny suburb. Maybe 500 people. But it shares a border with one of the most beautiful planted spaces in Australia.

Funny thing is, we still send flowers there all the time.

And yet we've sent flowers to Glebe for years. Because cut flowers in your kitchen, on your table, that someone chose for you and had delivered to your door, that's different to a garden you have to put your coat on to visit.

How We Deliver Flowers to Glebe

Glebe is tiny. Population of about 550 people in a suburb you could walk across in ten minutes. But it's right in the heart of Hobart, which means our partner florists cover it easily.

When you order through us, the flowers get made that morning by a real florist with a real shop in Hobart. Not boxed in a warehouse in Melbourne and posted down. Not sitting in cold storage for days waiting for Australia Post to get around to it. Fresh flowers, made by someone who knows Tasmanian conditions, delivered the same day.

* How it actually works. You order, we connect you with a Hobart florist, they deliver. No post. No boxes.

Order by 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays for same day delivery. Delivery is $16.95 and we subsidise anything above that because actual delivery costs are often higher, especially in Tasmania. Call us on 1300 360 469 if you'd rather talk to a person. We answer the phones ourselves from our office in Kingscliff.

The Tasmania Trip

We drove around Tasmania for a week in 2024. Hired a Tesla to see what the fuss was about, which turned into its own adventure because the charging situation wasn't quite what we'd hoped and the cold seemed to drain the battery faster than expected. Two degrees when we landed. We'd packed like we were going to the Gold Coast in winter, which is nothing like Hobart in winter. Rookie mistake.

* Caption: Our family at the Hobart waterfront, rugged up and still cold. Coming from Northern NSW, we seriously underestimated Tasmanian winter.

The Botanical Gardens was one of the afternoons Andrew and I had to ourselves. We walked around in coats we'd underpacked for, through the Japanese garden, past the plant house with its warmth fogging our glasses when we stepped inside. From certain spots you could see Glebe's steep streets rising up behind the gardens. The heritage architecture there is so different to anything back home. Weatherboard terraces perched on slopes, tiny front yards behind picket fences. Some of those buildings have been there since the 1880s.

We've been sending flowers to Hobart since 2009. Fifteen years of working with florists who understand what the cold does to flowers.

What Cold Actually Does to Flowers

Anna trained as a florist in North Carolina, then worked fifteen years on the bench here in Australia before joining us. She handles our bookkeeping now, but when we need to understand something technical about flowers, she's who we ask. And she knows cold climates in a way florists from Sydney or Brisbane never had to learn.

"I've seen people unwrap tropical flowers straight out of a warm van into freezing air," she told me once. "Anthuriums, orchids, anything that evolved in warm climates. Within two hours you get black spots everywhere. The cold hits so fast the cells don't have time to adjust. Ice crystals form inside the tissue and rupture the cell walls. Once that happens, you can't fix it."

Tasmania in winter, the temperature can drop quickly. Those steep streets in Glebe, wind coming off the river, exposed locations at the top of the ridge. Anna says florists who know cold weather double wrap anything tropical before it leaves the shop. Tissue first, then thick kraft paper. It's the insulation that makes the difference.

This is why we work with Hobart florists, not mainland warehouses. They know the conditions. They've learned what survives and what doesn't.

What Customers Say

We've collected over 23,000 reviews through Feefo, which is a platform endorsed by Google where only verified purchases can leave feedback. We can't delete the bad ones, which keeps us honest.

* Three years running now. The reviews come from real customers who actually ordered.

One customer who sent flowers to Hobart Hospital wrote: "Easy website to use. Delivery super efficient. I sent to Hobart hospital but didn't know floor or ward or room yet the beautiful flowers were delivered within an hour of my order being placed."

Another regular said: "I've always used Lily's Florist over the past few years, as their service is one of the best. They deliver anywhere in Australia, including Tasmania where I live. The flowers delivered are always beautiful fresh arrangements."

When Glebe Needs Flowers

For sympathy, Anna recommends whites, soft creams, and muted greens. "There's a reason those colours work," she says. "They're calming. They don't compete with grief."

> View our white funeral and sympathy flowers

For hospital deliveries to Royal Hobart, which is close by, boxed arrangements make more sense than hand tied bouquets. The patient isn't getting out of bed to find scissors and a vase. The box is the vase. Just set it down.

For birthdays or celebrations in those heritage terraces with their smaller rooms, our Florist's Choice at $71.95 gives the local florist freedom to create something that fits the space and uses whatever's freshest that morning.

> View our 60th birthday flowers

How We Got Here

* Where it started. Kingscliff Florist in 2006. We bought this shop knowing absolutely nothing about flowers and learned everything the hard way.

Andrew and I bought that little flower shop in 2006 against our accountant's advice. We knew nothing about flowers. A Yellow Pages ad the previous owner had left behind started ringing with requests for deliveries to places we couldn't reach, which is how we stumbled into the idea of partnering with florists around Australia instead of just running one shop.

That network has grown to over 800 florists now. Tasmania was one of the first states we expanded into because we kept getting calls from people in NSW wanting to send flowers to family down there.

Most of our business decisions still get made at the dinner table or in the car driving to netball. We don't have a marketing department. We have two teenagers who roll their eyes when we talk about conversion rates.

> View our complete story here

Flowers to Glebe, made fresh by Hobart florists, delivered same day. Order online or call 1300 360 469.