Same Day Flower Delivery Adelaide, Home, Ward or Office

It is their birthday, you are in another state, and the address is a house in Prospect or an office on King William Street (some years you are not even sure which one they will be at). For a house, add a neighbour's name or a shady spot in the notes, because a summer doorstep is hard on flowers by mid-afternoon. For an office, the company name and floor get the flowers past the lift. Our birthday bestsellers are a good start.

Anna's call: on a desk in January, go for a boxed arrangement. The foam in the box holds the water, so nobody at work has to hunt for a vase.

Someone you love is in the Royal Adelaide and you cannot walk in with anything. Coming home in a day or two? Send to the house. For a longer stay, hospital flowers go to the ward desk, and in our experience the staff log them and take them in, so the ward and bed number are what count. Intensive care and the burns unit tend not to take flowers at all; wait for the move to a ward.

We learned about hospital desks the sweaty way: Murwillumbah Hospital, 2007, 37 degrees, Asha screaming in the back seat, five minutes to get the flowers to reception and not a park in sight (oh the anxiety). The desk took them from there, and that part has not changed. A bunch on a bedside table is not much against a week in hospital. It is still something on the table from you. For the card, “Thinking of you” is plenty.

Anna, on shared wards

Rooms are small and often shared, so a low, compact arrangement sits better on a bedside than something tall. Lilies and stock are glorious at home, where their scent fills a room nobody else is sharing; for the ward, go for a get-well bunch with a lighter scent.

Someone at work carried you through a rough month or a big project, and a card does not quite cover it. Send thank-you flowers to the office if you want the team to see them, or to their home if it is more personal. In our experience city receptions sign for them and ring the person down, and the floor and company name in the notes speed that up.

Pick for Friday. A Monday delivery gets looked at for five working days under fluorescent light, and chrysanthemums and carnations hold their shape the whole way. Roses do beautifully too, in a corner of the office out of the afternoon sun.

Plenty of the orders we get do not fit a heading: a new house, a new job, someone you just miss. Anna has a view on this.

Natives are my pick for Adelaide when there is no occasion to match. Banksia and leucadendron were built for dry air. Whoever puts them in the vase should split the base of each woody stem a few centimetres so it can drink, and when the softer flowers finish, the cones dry on a shelf for months. Start with our native flowers.