Same Day Flower Delivery to Subiaco

The baby has arrived at King Edward on Bagot Road and you found out by text, a long way from the ward. Put the mother's full name on the order, never the baby's. Siobhan and I learned that at Tweed Hospital in 2007, walking a bunch around the maternity floor for a newborn nobody had written down under that surname yet. In our experience the ward files everything under the mother. On the card, "No need to reply, just rest" takes the pressure off.

Nobody on a maternity ward has a spare vase, so a box beats a wrapped bunch, and the foam inside holds its own water. Top it up with a sports bottle when it runs low. Soft pinks and white roses suit the room.

Someone is in St John of God on Salvado Road after surgery, and you are sending from another city or the far side of Perth. Ask the family first whether they are still in, because a short stay can finish sooner than anyone expects, and our hospital flowers can just as easily go to the house. Give us the full name and the ward. From what our florists see, reception signs for it and staff take it up on their next round. "Thinking of you, see you when you're home" keeps the card open.

Anna on a warm, dry ward

Hospital air conditioning keeps a room dry, and dry air pulls water out of a petal faster than the stem can replace it, so the edges crisp first. Carnations and chrysanthemums shrug that off, and in my experience a carnation still looks right close to two weeks later. Our get well range leans on stems like those.

It is a birthday, it has to land on the day, and the address is a unit in a block off Rokeby Road you have never seen. Put the unit number, the name on the intercom and a mobile in the notes. Without them the florist is buzzing a panel of names that mean nothing. Late in the year the Year 12 families at Perth Modern on Roberts Road add graduation flowers to the mix, and those want the date checked twice.

Anna's call: apartment kitchens are small, so keep the flowers about one and a half times the height of the vase. Any taller and the whole thing tips the first time someone opens the fridge. A birthday bunch for a friend at that size sits happily on a bench.

Plenty of orders fit no heading. A thank you to a consultant after months of appointments. A granddaughter you see twice a year. You do not need a category to send flowers. With Florist's Choice you give us the occasion and the budget, and the florist builds from the best stems in the shop that morning. It will not match a photo stem for stem. That is the trade.

Anna has a view on this. A florist choosing freely sets the dark colours low and the pale ones high, which is why a mixed arrangement looks settled instead of top-heavy. If you would rather pick it yourself, a seasonal bunch is the simple route.