Flower Delivery Mile End: Same Day

Order flowers to Mile End and get same day delivery when you order before 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays. We charge $16.95 for delivery, which is subsidised. My name is Siobhan, and my partner Andrew and I have run Lily's Florist since 2009 from regional NSW. We have over 800 partner florists across Australia, including right here in Adelaide. Call us on 1300 360 469 if you prefer talking to a real person. About 30% of our customers still do. There's a reason we ended up with a network that covers little inner suburbs like Mile End, and it starts with a phone that would not stop ringing.

* Andrew and I with our daughters Asha (18) and Ivy (14). Business decisions still happen at the dinner table, same as they did when we started out.

How Mile End Became Part of Our Delivery Network

Back in 2007, we bought a florist shop in Kingscliff, Northern NSW. The previous owner had paid for a Yellow Pages ad just before selling it to us. That explained the 40 plus calls a day for flowers. Most were for areas we could not deliver to. Adelaide came up more than you would think. People ringing from our area wanting to send flowers to family or friends in South Australia, not a lot, just a few a month. Which feels odd right? In 2007, way before Ecom took off, loads of people still called their local flowers shop to have flowers delivered to areas outside of their, that 'old school' way of doing things actually had a name "wire flowers" - that is - flowers by phone. 30% of our orders still come by wire, the old blower, hard to believe right, in 2026.

For months we said sorry, we cannot help. Eventually we stopped saying no. What if we found a florist in Adelaide who could make and deliver those flowers for us?

* Our shop at 1/98 Marine Parade, Kingscliff. We bought it in 2006 knowing nothing about flowers. The Yellow Pages ad the previous owner left behind ended up changing everything.

That question led us to call around Adelaide florists, explaining who we were. No membership fees, no catches - back then. Just more orders for their shop. Most said yes. Mile End came as part of Adelaide. Once we had florists in and around the city, suburbs like Mile End, Thebarton, and Torrensville were all within their delivery range.

* How it works. You order with us, we route it to an Adelaide partner florist, they make your flowers fresh that morning and deliver to Mile End.

Why Our Adelaide Florists Know What They're Doing

Adelaide summers can be brutal on flowers. Anna, who has been a qualified florist for over fifteen years before joining us as our bookkeeper, still checks arrangements and trains our team. She has a rule about deliveries to suburbs like Mile End during hot weather.

"The 2pm cutoff exists for a reason," Anna explains. "Flowers have what you could call a metabolic rate. The hotter it gets inside a delivery van, the faster that rate accelerates. By mid afternoon in an Adelaide summer, a van sitting in traffic on South Road can turn into an oven. We time our routes to avoid that peak. It is the difference between flowers lasting a week and flowers wilting before dinner."

Our partner florists in Adelaide know every back street between the Showgrounds and Thebarton. They understand that Mile End has a mix of old cottages and newer units, some with covered porches and some without. They leave flowers somewhere shaded when nobody is home. Small decisions, but they add up.

Real Reviews From Real Customers

We partnered with Feefo in 2013 because we wanted honest feedback. They only collect reviews from people who actually bought something. We cannot edit them, we cannot delete them. In the flower industry, that takes guts. Someone's "absolutely stunning" is another person's "bit underwhelming." Flowers are subjective like that.

One customer ordering to Adelaide wrote: "I ordered from Perth for Adelaide which always makes me think, I hope they are as beautiful as I hope and I couldn't be happier, they were amazing flowers and received with love. Fantastic."

Anna reads every review. The good ones and the ordinary ones. When a customer mentions longevity or freshness, she can often trace it back to specific steps. "That review about flowers received with love? That is what happens when a florist sources from local growers and gets the arrangement into a delivery van the same morning. Flowers that have sat in a warehouse for three days do not get that reaction."

Another customer needed flowers delivered to an Adelaide hospital: "I live in Adelaide and so I was calling from interstate to arrange a bunch of flowers to be sent to one of the hospitals as my mum was admitted to hospital for a week while on her holiday due to breaking her foot. I found the staff to be very very helpful and because I was calling from interstate they didn't ignore me or mistreat me or treat me like I was stupid. They were very kind and caring."

* Over 23,000 verified reviews since 2013. The Feefo Trusted Service Award for 2024, 2025, and 2026 is based entirely on what customers say, not what we claim.

Delivery Details for Mile End

Same day delivery is available Monday to Saturday. Order before 2pm on weekdays or 10am on Saturdays. We deliver to Mile End and surrounding suburbs including Thebarton, Torrensville, Hindmarsh, Bowden, and the Adelaide CBD.

Our delivery fee is $16.95. That is subsidised because actual delivery costs are often higher, but we absorb most of it.

If you would rather talk to someone, call 1300 360 469. Our team is based in Armidale NSW, not offshore. You will speak to someone who knows the difference between oriental lilies and asiatic lilies, and why that matters.

About the Author

Siobhan is co-founder of Lily's Florist alongside her partner Andrew. They started the business in 2006 by buying a struggling florist shop in Kingscliff NSW with zero experience and a baby on the way. That shop became the foundation for a network of over 800 partner florists across Australia. Siobhan and Andrew still run the business from their home in Kingscliff, making decisions at the dinner table with their daughters Asha (almost 19) and Ivy (14). Most business meetings happen on the to Coomera for basketball, having a morning chai tea, or catching up whilst walking our dog Bindi.

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