Flower Delivery Port Macquarie: Same Day

Lily's Florist Delivers Same Day

Order flowers to Port Macquarie today and our partner florist will have them delivered same day. Cutoff is 2pm weekdays, 10am Saturdays. Call us on 1300 360 469 if you need to talk it through. Port Macquarie is personal for me. I grew up in Taree and spent every weekend at my grandmother's place opposite Shelly Beach. We've been sending flowers to Port Macquarie since 2008, before we were even called Lily's Florist. Back then I (Siobhan) rang a florist named Kathy asking if she'd help us with our overflow orders. She said yes. 

Growing Up Between Taree and Shelly Beach

I grew up in Taree but every weekend we'd make the drive to Port Macquarie to visit my grandmother. She lived opposite Shelly Beach in an apartment that felt enormous to me as a kid. Sundays were always the same. Grandma would cook a roast lunch, we'd eat until we couldn't move, and then the whole family would walk down to Shelly Beach to burn it off.

The quickest way onto the sand was this steep hill that dropped straight down from the road. My brother Tyrone and I would slide down it on our backsides while the adults took the sensible route and parked at the car park. I can still feel the sand in my shorts and the sting on my palms from trying to slow down.

* Our family in 2024. Andrew and I started Lily's Florist when Asha was a baby. Now we coordinate 800 plus partner florists from our dinner table, including the one in Port Macquarie who's been with us since 2008.

Grandma had a way of getting us out of the house. She'd give Tyrone and I 50 cents each and tell us to walk up to Fantasy Glades and spend the day there. 50 cents went a long way back then. We'd come back sunburnt and broke, having spent every cent on fairy floss or whatever else they sold. Settlement City was the other big outing. Grandma loved a shop and we'd trail behind her through the mall pretending to be bored but secretly loving it.

When I think about Port Macquarie now, I don't think about the tourism ads or the koala hospital. I think about sliding down that hill. I think about roast lamb and the walk home with sand between my toes. I think about 50 cents feeling like a fortune.

So when people ask why Port Macquarie is one of our biggest delivery areas, there's a business answer and there's a real answer. The business answer is Kathy, our partner florist who said yes in 2008 before we were even called Lily's Florist. The real answer is that this town raised part of me.

About Those Partner Florists and How They Evolved

This is the part of the story I love telling because it sounds made up but every word is true.

In 2008 we were running Kingscliff Flower Shop. We had zero experience in flowers, a baby, mounting debts, and a shop that looked like it hadn't been touched since 1979. But the phone kept ringing. Not just for Kingscliff. People wanted flowers sent to places we'd never been. Taree. Cairns. Townsville. And Port Macquarie.

* This is the shop we bought in 2006 in Kingscliff before going fully online with flowers 4 years later. Zero experience, a baby on the way, and our accountant told us not to do it. The phone calls for Port Macquarie flowers started here, years before Lily's Florist existed.

We started keeping a tally. Port Macquarie was coming up constantly. Maybe 20 requests a month that we had to turn away because we couldn't deliver there.

One day I thought, what if I just rang a florist in Port Macquarie and asked if they'd help? So I did. I found Kathy at Kathy's Creative Flowers. I explained who we were, which wasn't much at the time. I told her we had these orders coming through and no way to fulfil them. I asked if she'd be willing to make the arrangements and deliver them for us.

She said yes.

No contracts. No lawyers. No pitch deck. Just one florist trusting another florist's word. That was 2008. We weren't even called Lily's Florist yet.

Kathy became one of our founding partner florists. In fact, this very page you're reading was built in 2009 so we could send flowers to her. She's still part of our network today. Seventeen years of partnership from one phone call and a bit of faith on both sides.

Port Macquarie is now one of our biggest flower delivery areas in terms of volume. I'd like to think Kathy has something to do with that. When you order flowers to Port Macquarie through Lily's Florist, you're ordering through a relationship that started before we even had a proper name.

* How it works when you order flowers to Port Macquarie. You order, we connect with our partner florist, they make the arrangement fresh that morning and deliver it themselves. No Australia Post. No cardboard boxes. Just flowers handed over at the door.

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Why Coastal Delivery Needs Different Thinking

Anna, who's been a qualified florist for over fifteen years, won't send soft petalled flowers to beachfront addresses without a conversation first.

"Salt air is rough on delicate tissue," she explains. "I've seen roses from beachfront deliveries come back looking like they've been through a sandblaster. Orchids and succulents have a waxy coating that acts like a natural shield. If someone's getting flowers delivered to one of those places overlooking Shelly Beach or Lighthouse Beach, I'd always push them toward something with a bit of armour."

Port Macquarie is a coastal town and a lot of the delivery addresses sit close to the water. Our partner florists know this. They're not going to send a bunch of garden roses to a unit block copping sea breeze all day. They'll make something that lasts.

Award Winning Service

It's a big claim, but it's true!

Our totally awesome staff were awarded a Feefo Trusted Service Award. The award is handed out to businesses, that are partnered with Feefo, that achieve at least 50 real customer reviews over a 12 month period. Is there a catch? Sure is, you have to get at least a 4 star minimum service rating to qualify. Not only did we beat the 50 reviews, we crushed them, with over 2,100 reviews with either a 4 or 5 star rating, which is a mammoth task given the complexities of anything or any product requires same day delivery.

Here is a new and shiny badge and that is 3 years running now - 2024, 2025, and 2026!

* Three years running now. 2024, 2025, and 2026. You need at least 50 reviews with a 4 star minimum to qualify. We had over 2,100.

Just this week, Jason from Newcastle rang us to send flowers to Port Macquarie. His review landed on the 28th of January 2025: "Very pleased with prompt service. Ordered flowers over the phone from Newcastle to be delivered to an address in Port Macquarie. Flowers arrived when they said they would. Very pleased."

That's the thing about Port Macquarie. We get a lot of orders from people in Sydney and Newcastle who have family up there. The distance doesn't change how the model works. You call us, we call our partner florist, they make the arrangement fresh that morning and deliver it the same day. Jason ordered by phone but you can also order online or call 1300 360 469 if you want to talk through what you're after.

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But Why and How Port Macquarie

Interestingly, the story didn't begin in 2009, it actually began with an idea in late 2005. To get out of the rat race of Sydney, to start a new life with the view to starting a family, with a goal of moving to a regional NSW town and either buy and existing business or start one in gifting, baby product and generally organic food and skin care.

I won't bore you with the immense detail, as all of it is covered in the page I linked to about, but we ended up buying a florist and gift in Kingscliff in Northern NSW called Kingscliff Flower Shop. The thought was to scale back the flowers a bit, as we were not florists, and push organics and the gifting side of the business. But we kept getting calls for flowers, and loads of them, every day, 7 days a week. Puzzled by so many calls, and almost annoyed at times, we ended up finding out that the previous owner had taken out a Yellow Pages ad, like the book, well hey, that explained all the phone calls.

Transitioning to Flowers Online

Speaking of calls, we would get a large amount for our local area, but also other areas just like Port Macquarie, before most florists went online, this was one way how you could send flowers to an area outside where you lived. We would roughly get 20 requests for flowers to Port Macquarie per month. It then it dawned on us, what if we found a florist in Port Macquarie, told the who we are and what we do, and asked them if they could help us with our flower deliveries - in this case it was Kathy from Kathy's Creative Flowers. She was of our founding florist partners right back, even before Lily's Florist, from about 2008. In fact, this very page was built in 2009 for us to send flowers to her.

In fact, my Grandma used to live in Port Macquarie, who we would visit a few times a year, so the town has a very special place in our hearts. To this day, Port Macquarie is still one of our biggest flower delivery areas in terms of volume, despite since 2009, now partnering with over 800 florists now all throughout Australia!