Flower Delivery Murwillumbah: Same Day

Same day flowers to Murwillumbah when you order before 2pm weekdays or 10am Saturdays. Call 1300 360 469 or order online. Delivery is $16.95. I'm Siobhan, and I run Lily's Florist with my partner Andrew. Australian owned, family operated since 2009, with over 800 partner florists delivering nationwide. Murwillumbah was our very first. One nervous drive with a baby in the car seat, one broken trinket on a shop floor, and a florist who said yes. That single conversation in a small Tweed Valley flower shop built everything you see today.

How One Florist in Murwillumbah Changed Everything

In 2006, Andrew and I bought a tiny florist and gift shop on Marine Parade in Kingscliff, about twenty minutes from Murwillumbah. We had no idea what we were doing with flowers. None. Our plan was to scale the flowers down and focus on organic gifts, skincare, baby products. You can read the full version of that story on our About Us page if you have the time.

The short version. The previous owner had paid for a Yellow Pages advertisement. The book. People started calling us for flower deliveries to places we couldn't reach. Murwillumbah, Uki, Stokers Siding, Tumbulgum. Forty calls a day, sometimes more. For months we turned them away. We were a tiny shop with a newborn and no delivery infrastructure beyond Andrew's car.

One Friday night after a long week, we were in the kitchen when it hit us. What if we found a florist in Murwillumbah and asked them to deliver our orders? No membership fees, no contracts. Just add a few extra stems to cover a small commission.

The following Monday, Andrew strapped Asha into the car seat and drove out to the Flower Shed in Murwillumbah. He was nervous. The whole concept was foreign, untested, a bit abstract. He walked in, put Asha down on the floor so he could talk, and within seconds she knocked something off a low shelf. Crash. He tells it with a wince, still. Tail between his legs, he paid for the broken gift and then somehow got the words out. "Would you be interested in helping us with our flower orders?"

The florist smiled and said yes.

Murwillumbah became our first partner location outside Kingscliff. Lily's Florist was still a year away from existing as a brand, but that single yes gave us a model that now operates with over 800 partners across the country. Asha, the one who broke the gift, has since graduated Year 12. Where does the time go.

Before that partnership, we were doing the Murwillumbah deliveries ourselves. Asha in the back seat, flowers on the passenger side, Andrew white knuckling it down Tweed Valley Way in mid summer. One delivery to Murwillumbah District Hospital still gets brought up at the dinner table. He pulled into the car park, 37 degrees, Asha screaming, flowers needed to be at reception in five minutes, and he could not find a park. The anxiety of that run, twenty minutes each way with a baby who didn't care about your delivery schedule, is exactly why we needed a local florist.

And then there was the prune incident. Andrew had given Asha a prune from the shop before they left. He says one. I think it was five. He denies it. Heading back from a Murwillumbah delivery, doing 100 down Tweed Valley Way, and it happened. I won't go into detail because it is genuinely disgusting. Think Mount Vesuvius. One hour on the side of the road.

Yeah. We needed a partner florist in Murwillumbah.

* Our shop on Marine Parade, Kingscliff. Twenty minutes from Murwillumbah and where the Yellow Pages phone calls started.

What the Tweed Valley Does to Cut Flowers

Murwillumbah sits at the bottom of the Tweed Valley, backed up against Wollumbin. In summer, the valley traps heat and moisture that the coast sheds with the afternoon sea breeze. That temperature gap between Kingscliff and Murwillumbah on a February afternoon is something you feel the moment you step out of the car. It matters for flowers too.

Anna, who trained as a florist and worked on the bench for over fifteen years before moving to our back office, has a specific concern about valley deliveries. "Humidity is the killer people don't think about," she says. "Botrytis, which is grey mould, loves humid air that sits still. In the valley without that coastal breeze, you get pockets of dead air around the arrangement. If the flowers are wrapped too tight, moisture gets trapped against the petals and the mould takes hold fast. Our Murwillumbah florist keeps the wrapping loose. You have to give the flowers room to breathe."

Cut flowers lose water through their petals constantly. Heat speeds that process up. A bouquet that leaves a cool coastal workbench and spends twenty minutes in a delivery vehicle heading inland will dehydrate faster than one delivered three streets from the shop. Our Murwillumbah partner compensates with wet packs and adjusts stem selection for the conditions. Thick petalled varieties like orchids and natives handle the valley heat better than fine tissue flowers like Ranunculus or sweet peas, which can wilt inside the first hour.

This is knowledge you get from a florist who lives and works in the valley. Not from a warehouse in Sydney sending flowers by post.

A Florist Who Knows the Roads

Some of our competitors operate from warehouses. They produce arrangements on a line, box the lot, and hand them to a courier. That courier has probably never been to Murwillumbah. They wouldn't know that the back roads to Uki can flood after heavy rain (speaking of Uki, Andrew and I were married there at Mavis' Kitchen), or that houses in Stokers Siding sit well back from the road with no visible number, or that Murwillumbah District Hospital has specific protocols for receiving flowers. Our partner florist does. They live there.

That local knowledge makes a real difference when you're sending sympathy flowers to a family home down a long gravel driveway off the Tweed Valley Way. You want someone who knows where they're going. Not someone checking a GPS from a depot in another state.

We don't hide the times things go wrong either. One of our verified Feefo customers ordered sympathy flowers to Murwillumbah by phone and specifically asked for no lilies because the recipient couldn't tolerate the perfume. Our Murwillumbah florist was closed that week, so a partner from Tweed Heads stepped in and covered the delivery at short notice. The cost was $13 above the usual delivery fee, which the customer was happy to pay. The flowers arrived and the recipient called them "stunning." But they contained lilies. One star off for not doing as requested.

* Our staff were awarded another Feefo Trusted Service Award in 2026. That is 3 years in a row now and is vindication for all the hard work and training that is done every month.

That review stays on our Feefo page. It shows two things honestly. First, when our local partner is unavailable, the network fills the gap. A florist twenty minutes down the road picks up the order, not a warehouse across the country. Second, we got the lily instruction wrong. It shouldn't have happened.

Anna is direct about this. "Lily sensitivity is more common than a lot of florists acknowledge. The pollen stains everything and it triggers reactions in plenty of people. When a customer says no lilies, you pull them entirely. No orientals, no Asiatics, nothing from that family. The Tweed Heads florist made a gorgeous arrangement but missed that one instruction, and that one instruction is the thing the customer remembers."

The flip side is when it works. Another verified Feefo customer left this: "Review of service not website. I had been given wrong street number for my delivery and your delivery person called me and was walking down the street asking people to find the right house. Amazing service, thank you."

That is what a local delivery driver does. They don't leave a card and drive off. They get out of the van and start knocking on doors. Anna sees a direct line between that kind of effort and flower quality. "A driver who cares enough to walk down the street asking neighbours is the same driver who carries the arrangement upright, keeps it out of direct sun, and doesn't leave it baking on a doorstep. You can't train that from a warehouse. That comes from someone who knows they'll see those neighbours again tomorrow."

What to Send to Murwillumbah

If you know the occasion, start there. Birthday flowers and thank you flowers give our Murwillumbah florist the most creative room because there are no rules about colour or tone. They'll work with what's fresh that morning.

Sympathy flowers need more thought. Anna won't send pure white to a grieving family's home. "It looks clinical," she says. "Peach tones, soft creams, a touch of green. White reads as hospital. Cream reads as comfort. It changes the whole feeling when they open the door."

For hospital deliveries, go with a boxed arrangement. The recipient won't have scissors, a vase, or counter space. A loose bunch at a hospital bedside is a problem for the patient, not a gift. Our get well and new baby ranges are designed for exactly that.

Not sure? Florist's Choice at $71.95 leaves it with the Murwillumbah florist who knows what's in season and what handles the valley conditions. Or browse our flowers under $60.

How to Order Flowers to Murwillumbah

* This is my simple interpretation of how our network works when you place a flower order.

Order online or call us on 1300 360 469. Same day delivery Monday to Friday when you order by 2pm. Saturday orders need to be in by 10am. Delivery is $16.95, which Lily's Florist subsidises because actual delivery costs to Tweed Valley addresses are often higher.

For Murwillumbah District Hospital, provide the recipient's full name, ward, bed number, and mobile phone number. Our partner florist coordinates with the nurses' station to get the flowers to the right room.

We deliver across the Tweed Shire including Uki, Stokers Siding, Tumbulgum, and surrounding areas. Remote locations like Uki may occasionally need a small additional delivery fee and one of our team will call you to confirm before we charge anything extra.

We don't deliver on Sundays except Mother's Day. Anna is blunt about why. "Flower markets close Saturday afternoon. Any florist delivering Sunday is using Friday stock. By Sunday morning those flowers have already lost close to a third of their vase life. You're paying full price for something that's two days old before it leaves the bench." We'd rather close for a day than send flowers we're not confident in.

If something goes wrong, contact us within 24 hours with photographs of both sides of the arrangement and we will work with our partner florist to make it right. Call, email [email protected], or use our live chat.

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About the Author

Siobhan founded Lily's Florist with her partner Andrew in 2009 after they bought a struggling flower shop in Kingscliff NSW in 2006. What started as a seachange from Sydney with a baby on the way became an Australia wide delivery network of over 800 partner florists. They still live in Kingscliff with their daughters Asha and Ivy, and most business decisions still happen at the dinner table or on the drive to netball. Murwillumbah remains the first chapter of the story every time they tell it. Read the full version on our About Us page.

* Us. Andrew, Ivy, Siobhan and Asha in Hobart, June 2024.