Same Day Flower Delivery to Annandale, NSW 2038

You won't be at the table tonight, but you have the address. Home or work both suit; add the floor if it's an office. Plenty of terraces here open almost onto the footpath, with no porch to shade a bunch, so when nobody answers, in our experience the florist rings the mobile in the order instead of leaving birthday flowers on the step. Sending to a mate? Try birthday flowers for a friend.

The Rose, Gerbera & Lilies Bunch opens a lily bud at a time, so in the front room, away from the fruit bowl, day four still looks full.

Someone is in RPA or Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, just across Parramatta Road, and you have a name and maybe a ward. If they are due home tomorrow, send it home instead. For hospital flower delivery, in our experience flowers stop at the ward desk and staff carry them in, so the ward goes in the notes; if you don't know it, ask the family before you order. I learned about ward desks at The Tweed Hospital in 2007, walking two corridors the wrong way with a vase of roses before a nurse pointed me back to the desk I'd walked straight past. Lifehouse is a cancer centre, and in our experience some of its wards don't take flowers, so check with the family first. A card that works: "Thinking of you."

Anna on ward flowers

Gerberas and roses carry almost no scent into a shared room, and 3 Gerberas In A Vase needs nobody to find a jug. More get well flowers here.

The notice says Hunter Baillie on Johnston Street, and you're trying to get it right from somewhere else. Funeral flowers go to the funeral director, whether that's A. O'Hare on Norton Street or another firm, with the name and service time in the notes. A week on, when the house has gone quiet, sympathy flowers for the home are a different gesture, and just as right. Flowers are a small thing against what has happened, and people still send them. "Thinking of you all" is enough on the card.

Anna's view: whites sit right in a sandstone church, and a White Lily & Rose Sheath lies flat on the casket, where a vase would tip.

Half our orders don't fit a heading: a new job, a sorry, a mum just settled into Annandale Grove. You don't need a category.

Anna's pick is the Australian Natives Bunch. Woody natives like protea and leucadendron shrug off the fruit bowl, though waxflower doesn't, so the front-room rule still stands, and when the soft stems finish, banksia dries on a shelf for months. More native flowers here.