Flower Delivery Mooloolaba: Same Day

How Lily's Florist Works

You order flowers, either online or by calling 1300 360 469. Our Armidale based team, all Australian, routes your order to a local Sunshine Coast florist. That florist makes your flowers fresh that day and their own driver delivers to the door in Mooloolaba.

No warehouses. No production lines. No flowers sitting in an Australia Post depot overnight.

* How it works. You order, we connect you with a partner florist, they deliver.

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The Shop Where It Started

In 2006, Andrew and I bought a florist and gift shop on Marine Parade in Kingscliff. We knew nothing about flowers. What we did not know was the previous owner had just taken out a Yellow Pages advertisement. So we kept getting calls. Forty plus a day, including requests for places we could not deliver to. The Sunshine Coast came up constantly.

For months we said sorry, we cannot help. Then one freezing June day in 2007, with maybe twenty five dollars in the till, we thought what if we stopped saying no?

* Our shop in Kingscliff the day we bought it. The accountant told us not to buy it. We bought it anyway.

We started calling florists in those distant towns. The first who said yes was in Murwillumbah. Then Taree. Then the Sunshine Coast. By 2013 we had 160 partners. Today, over 800.

The Under 16's, the Parking Nightmare, and Rice Boi

In early April 2023, we stayed in Mooloolaba for three nights while Asha played state titles with HDNA at Sunshine Coast Netball. Anyone who has been to those courts knows the drill. Parking is a nightmare. We always bring an electric scooter so Andrew can park a kilometre away and scoot back without missing a game. Pro tip for anyone doing rep netball on the Sunshine Coast.

The real reason we stay in Mooloolaba though is Rice Boi. If you are into Asian street food, proper Asian street food, it is one of the best restaurants we have eaten at. The karaage chicken ramen is ridiculous. Soft egg, bamboo shoots, rich broth, noodles cooked exactly right. Ivy ordered the same thing three nights running.

* The karaage chicken ramen at Rice Boi. Ivy ordered this three nights in a row, she is also a massive fan of ramen.

That trip confirmed what we had suspected. The Sunshine Coast operates like one extended neighbourhood. Families from Kawana Waters, Buderim, Maroochydore, Pelican Waters, all mixed together at the courts. Everyone knew everyone through someone. Mooloolaba sits right in the middle of it.

Coastal Flowers and Salt Air

Mooloolaba is beachfront. That matters for flowers.

Anna, who trained as a florist and worked the bench for fifteen years before joining us as bookkeeper, has a rule about coastal deliveries. Salt air strips moisture from delicate petals faster than the flower can replace it.

"Orchids and succulents are the safest choice for front row beach addresses," Anna explains. "They have a natural waxy barrier. Gerberas look stunning but can wilt within hours if there is a breeze off the water."

This is detail that warehouse operations do not think about. Our partner florists do.

When Someone in the UK Wakes Up to Bad News

We get emails at odd hours. 11PM on a Tuesday. 3AM on a Saturday. Most are from the UK, some from the US west coast, a few from expats scattered across Asia. The pattern is usually the same. Someone has woken up to bad news about a family member on the Sunshine Coast and wants flowers delivered before they've even had their morning coffee.

The time zone difference actually works in their favour. A UK customer sends an email at 10PM their time. That lands in our inbox at 8AM Queensland time, right as our team is starting the day. By the time they wake up the next morning, the flowers have already been delivered. Ten thousand miles feels a bit smaller when the logistics line up like that.

Our Sunshine Coast partner florists understand these orders. Sympathy flowers from overseas carry extra weight. The sender can't be there. They're stuck on the other side of the world, probably feeling helpless, and the flowers have to do the work of presence. Getting the timing wrong, or the presentation, or even the card message slightly off, compounds that helplessness.

Anna, who worked as a florist for fifteen years before joining us, reckons the Sunshine Coast humidity adds another layer of difficulty. Mooloolaba is in that subtropical belt (a little like home in Kingscliff) where the air holds moisture, especially January through March. Soft petalled flowers like hydrangeas can develop grey mould if they're wrapped too tight during delivery. The technical name is Botrytis cinerea and it thrives in humid, still air pockets trapped against petals. Our florists use loose wrapping to let the arrangement breathe during the drive from shop to door.

Dave P. from the UK emailed us recently after a bereavement in his family. He mentioned the "very quick positive reply" and that the bouquet arrived "the day after ordering" and was "superb." His recipients in Mooloolaba were "extremely satisfied." That's the time zone advantage at work, combined with a florist who knows how to handle coastal humidity and the emotional weight of sympathy arrangements.

Most of our Mooloolaba flower orders are local. Birthdays, anniversaries, the usual. But the ones from overseas stick with us longer. Someone in Manchester or Edinburgh trusting a florist they've never met, in a town they may never visit, to represent them at one of the hardest moments in their family's life. We take that seriously.

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Why the Reviews Matter

Feefo handed us the Trusted Service Award in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Over 23,000 verified reviews. We cannot delete the bad ones or get mates to write good ones.

* Third year running.

Who We Are

* Our family in 2024. Siobhan and I started Lily's in Kingscliff when Asha was a baby. We now coordinate 800 plus partners from our while eating Asian Street food like from Rice Boi, and clearly, in between games of netball.

Lily's Florist is Andrew and me. We still live in Kingscliff. Asha graduated Year 12 in 2025. Ivy turns 15 in February 2026. We do not have boardrooms or marketing teams. Business decisions happen at the dinner table, or in the car driving to netball.

About the Author

Siobhan Co-founder, Lily's Florist

Siobhan co-founded Lily's Florist with her partner Andrew in 2006. With no prior experience in flowers, they built an Australia wide delivery network of over 800 partner florists. They live in Kingscliff with their two daughters.