Flower Delivery Karalee: Same Day

Same day flower delivery to Karalee when you order before 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays. Call 1300 360 469 or order online. Your flowers are made by real Ipswich florists, not pulled from a warehouse or shipped overnight in a box. We're Lily's Florist, an Australian family business that started in a tiny shop in Kingscliff back in 2006. Andrew and I have been coordinating flower deliveries across Queensland for over 17 years now, and Ipswich holds a particular soft spot for our family. Our daughters have competed there more times than I can count.

Ordering Flowers to Karalee

Getting flowers delivered to Karalee is straightforward. Order online anytime or call us on 1300 360 469 during business hours (Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm, Saturday 7am to 12:30pm). Delivery costs $16.95, which we actually subsidise because the real cost is often higher depending on where in Karalee the flowers are going.

For same day delivery, your order needs to reach us by 2pm on weekdays or 10am on Saturdays. We deliver Monday through Saturday. Sundays we close, except Mother's Day.

* How it works: You order, we connect with your local Ipswich florist, they make and deliver your flowers fresh. No warehouses, no overnight post.

Why Beautiful Pastels Bunch is Popular in Karalee

Our Beautiful Pastels Bunch has 267 reviews and counting, and it consistently performs well for Karalee deliveries. I asked Anna why she thought that was. Anna spent over fifteen years as a qualified florist before moving to our bookkeeper role.

"Pastels suit Queensland homes," Anna told me. "Bright arrangements can clash with neutral interiors, but soft lilacs and pinks work with almost anything. The combination here is very important too. Gerberas give you that pop of pink without being aggressive about it, the oriental lilies add fragrance and structure, and the roses ground everything."

She mentioned something else worth knowing. Gerberas have hollow stems, which is why cheaper florists often have problems with them drooping after a day or two. Our partner florists run a fine wire through the inside of each stem to give it structure. Anna says it adds about a minute per flower but extends vase life by five or six days. The kind of detail you would never know about unless someone told you.

The lilies in this arrangement come with their anthers already removed. That's the pollen part. Partly to prevent orange stains on tablecloths, but Anna explained there's another reason. Removing them tricks the flower into thinking it hasn't been pollinated yet, which delays the chemical signal that tells it to start dying. Simple enough, but it means your lilies stay open and fresh longer.

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How We Know Ipswich

In April 2025 our eldest daughter Asha was competing at state representative netball. Three days of competition. Day three, she copped an elbow during a contest for the ball and went down hard. The kind of moment that stops your heart as a parent. We ended up at St Andrews Hospital for a concussion check. She was fine, thankfully, but those few hours waiting for results felt endless. Between games that week I found a cafe called Ellen & Rod and ordered a Sticky Chai that I still think about. If you're ever at a netball tournament in Ipswich with time to kill, trust me on that one.

Three years earlier, in 2022, our younger daughter Ivy played basketball at the main indoor courts in Ipswich for a Gold Coast Rollers warm up tournament. The funny part: she had basically never played basketball before. Ivy is an elite netball shooter so she leant on those skills and figured it out as she went. During the trial to make the team for state titles, the final day had a three pointer competition. Ivy won it. First three pointer she had ever attempted in her life. The coaches were looking at each other trying to work out who this kid was. They knew all the other players. The team ended up coming fourth at state titles on the Sunshine Coast, but that Ipswich tournament was where it all started. We stayed at the Quest apartments that week.

* Our family in 2024. Siobhan and I started Lily's Florist in Kingscliff when Asha was a baby. Now we coordinate 800 plus partners from our dinner table.

Real Florists, Not Warehouses

When you order flowers to Karalee through us, the arrangement gets made by an actual Ipswich florist with a real shop. Fresh flowers, assembled that day, delivered by someone who knows the area.

Some of our competitors work differently. They make flowers on a production line in a central warehouse, then ship them overnight through Australia Post in a box. By the time they reach Karalee, those flowers have already lost a day or two of vase life sitting in transit.

We have over 800 partner florists across Australia. Some have been with us for fifteen years. They take pride in what they make because their shop name is on it too.

One Feefo review from the Ipswich area sticks with me, I scoured 23,000 reviews to find it: "Lily's florist delivered an absolutely beautiful bunch of flowers, on time and even to a farm in the back of Ipswich. Couldn't be happier with their service!!" That sums up what we aim for. Whether the delivery is to a suburban street in Karalee or a property further out, we get it there.

* 2026 Feefo Trusted Service Award. Based on over 23,000 verified customer reviews since 2013.

About Those Reviews

We partnered with Feefo back in 2013, and honestly it scared us at first. Feefo only collects reviews from people who have actually placed an order. We cannot delete bad ones, we cannot get mates to write nice things. Completely independent.

Flowers are subjective. Three people can look at the same arrangement and see three different things. So putting ourselves out there with zero control over feedback took some guts. Since then we have collected over 23,000 reviews. Some ordinary, some okay, most completely awesome. We won their Trusted Service Award in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

The award requires more than 50 reviews in a 12 month period with an average rating of at least 4 stars. In our qualifying period we received over 3,000 reviews, which was more than 60 times the minimum required.

I am also working very hard on our ProductReview listing, I only claimed it in October 2025!

Our Foundation Story

We bought a florist and gift shop in Kingscliff, Northern NSW, in 2006. Shop 1/98 Marine Parade. I was pregnant with Asha at the time and we had zero experience with flowers or retail. Our accountant told us not to buy it. We did anyway.

The plan was to scale back flowers and build up organic gifts, skincare, baby products. But the previous owner had just paid for a Yellow Pages advertisement. The phone would not stop ringing with flower orders. Random places like Taree, Townsville, Cairns. Back then, if you wanted to send flowers interstate you called your local florist and asked them to organise it. That was called wire flowers.

After months of turning those calls away, sitting in the shop with maybe $25 in the till on a cold June day, we thought: what if we took these orders and found florists in those towns to make them? We approached a florist in Murwillumbah first. Drove out there with baby Asha in the car seat. Nervous, sweating, rehearsing what to say. She agreed immediately. That single partnership became the foundation for Lily's Florist.

* Our original shop in Kingscliff, the day we bought it. This is where Lily's Florist began. In 2026 it's now Kingscliff Surf Shop!

By 2009 we had around 20 partner florists. By 2013 that grew to 160. Today we work with over 800 across Australia. We sold the physical shop in 2009 to go fully online, moved our call centre to Armidale NSW, and still live in Kingscliff after 18 years. All calls answered by Australian staff. No offshore call centres.

> Learn more about that evolution

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About Siobhan

I'm one half of Lily's Florist, along with my partner Andrew. We started this business in 2006 with a shop we had no idea how to run, a baby on the way, and an accountant telling us we were making a mistake. Seventeen years later we coordinate over 800 florist partners across Australia from our home in Kingscliff.

Our daughters Asha (turns 19 in May 2026) and Ivy (turns 15 in February 2026) have grown up with this business. Most of our decisions still get made at the dinner table, watching the whales go by in late May, riding down to Cudgen Creek, walking Bindi our dog, or driving to netball training and games - and by gosh there are a lot of those. We don't have boardrooms, marketing teams, or a squad of solicitors, nope. Just a Mum and Dad who wanted a seachange and accidentally built something bigger than we ever imagined with all its ups and many downs for the last 20 years.