Online Flowers to Macksville 6 Days a Week

If you grew up in Sydney and your family holidayed anywhere north of Coffs Harbour, you know Macksville. Not because you stopped there. Because you got stuck there. Meh!

Before the M1 bypass existed, the Pacific Highway went straight through town. And during school holidays, Christmas especially, Macksville could add an hour to your trip just sitting in traffic crawling past the pub and the bridge. As a kid in the back seat, desperate to get to Noosa or Fraser Island or Surfers Paradise, it was torture. Pure torture. "Are we there yet?" on repeat while Dad white-knuckled the steering wheel and Mum pretended everything was fine.

I reckon we've been through Macksville 100 plus times over the years. Never really stopped to explore, just watched it inch past the window. Now the bypass is done, the town's quieter, and here we are sending flowers there pretty much daily. Funny how things turn out.

* When we say family owned and operated, we mean it. Andrew, Ivy, me and Asha

How We Ended Up Sending Flowers to Macksville

Back in 2007, when Siobhan and I had our little florist shop in Kingscliff, Macksville would have been exactly the kind of call we turned away. "Sorry, can't get flowers there for you." We said it so many times it became reflexive. The previous owner had taken out a Yellow Pages ad (the actual book) and suddenly we were copping 40 plus calls a day for deliveries we couldn't do. Places like Macksville, Taree, Townsville, random towns all over Australia.

* This was outside our shop in Kingscliff in 2006

Then one freezing June day, maybe $25 in the till, we thought there has to be a way. The idea was simple. Find florists in other towns, ask them to help with our orders. No membership fees, no corporate nonsense. Just a transparent commission covered by adding a few extra stems. Every florist we approached said yes.

That was 2008. By 2013 we had 160 partners. Now it's over 800 across every state and territory, regional NSW towns like Macksville included. The town that used to be a traffic jam on the way to somewhere else is now a place we deliver to daily. We're still a Mum and Dad operation though. Kids are 18 and 14 now. Business decisions happen at the dinner table or driving to netball (Asha plays representative, so there's a lot of driving). No boardroom. No marketing department. Just us.

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When Macksville Needs Flowers

Small towns handle things differently. Everyone knows everyone. When someone passes, the whole street turns up with casseroles. When there's a new baby, word's around town by lunchtime. Flowers mean something in places like Macksville because they're not anonymous. The florist making them probably knows the family.

Sympathy flowers are a big part of what we do here. We call the funeral home directly to coordinate timing so arrangements arrive before the service. If you'd prefer flowers sent to the family home instead of the funeral, we can do that too. Tasteful, appropriate, handled with care.

Hospital deliveries to Macksville District Hospital are common. Our get well arrangements come in boxes that don't need vases (practical when someone's stuck in a hospital bed with limited space and zero energy). Just give us the ward, bed number, and recipient's mobile when you order. Nurses won't always deliver to the bedside but we'll get as close as we can.

Then there's birthdays. Regional towns have a lot of retirees, a lot of milestone celebrations. Kids and grandkids scattered interstate wanting to send something for Nan's 80th or Pop's 70th. You can't always make the drive down the highway yourself, even without the old Macksville bottleneck slowing you down.

Same Day Flower Delivery to Macksville

Order by 2PM weekdays or 10AM Saturdays and we'll have flowers delivered same day. Delivery fee is $16.95, though we subsidise the cost if outer areas run higher (places like Bowraville or further into the Nambucca Valley).

Nobody home? Our courier leaves flowers somewhere safe, out of the sun, out of view from the street. If that's not possible they'll call the recipient. For funeral deliveries we contact the funeral home directly to make sure timing works.

Business addresses usually see delivery by 5PM, residential by 7PM. We don't guarantee exact times (traffic still exists, even with the bypass) but we genuinely try.

Real Partner Florists, Not Overnight Post

Some online flower companies operate out of warehouses. Bulk flowers from offshore, factory workers following recipes, boxed up and posted overnight with Australia Post. By the time they arrive they're thirsty, squashed, and sad. That's not us.

When you order to Macksville through Lily's Florist, that order goes to a real florist. Real shop, trained in floristry, local staff. They know the difference between delivering to the hospital and the bowlo. They know which streets flood when it rains and which driveways have dogs.

If a specific flower isn't available (it happens, fresh product and all), our florists substitute with something equal or better. That's the nature of seasonal flowers.

Our customer service team works from Armidale, all Australian, no offshore call centres. We've also got Anna on the team, ex-florist, been with us 15 years now. She talks to florists in a way Siobhan and I never could, actual credibility. Our number is 1300 360 469. We answer it. That's kind of our thing.

What 3,000+ Customers Say About Us

In 2019 we partnered with Feefo, a review platform endorsed by Google. Only verified customers can leave reviews. We can't delete the bad ones, can't get mates to write nice things. Completely independent.

Flowers are subjective. One person's "gorgeous" is another person's "not what I expected." Putting ourselves out there with zero control was a risk. But we've now had over 3,000 reviews and won Feefo's Trusted Service Award in both 2024 and 2025. You need at least 50 reviews at 4 stars or above to qualify. We smashed that.

We read every single one. The good ones make our day. The others help us improve.

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