Flower Delivery to Belconnen Today, Including Saturdays

The birthday is today, they live in one of the town centre towers, and you are nowhere near Canberra, so put the unit number and their mobile in the notes, because a first name alone rarely gets anyone buzzed up (I would underline that if I could). I learned it the hard way in 2008, standing in the lobby of Q1 in Surfers Paradise with Asha on my hip and a docket that just said Kylie, Q1, while the lady on the desk looked at the docket, then up at the ceiling, then at me. Andrew had to ring the sender in Perth and wake her up. Half of Belconnen is under thirty, believe it or not, so it is often a friend’s birthday or a 30th.

If you know there is a vase in the flat, the Gerbera Bunch + Teddy + Birthday Balloon is the fun one; if you are not sure, 3 Gerberas In A Vase arrives already in water. Either way, a gerbera stem is hollow (a scape, in the trade), and once the water goes cloudy the neck folds. Fresh water every second day keeps the heads up.

Someone at work is leaving, got the promotion, or turns forty and the team has chipped in. Offices here mostly mean a big building on Benjamin Way, ABS House among them, and in our experience the flowers wait at the ground-floor desk until someone comes down for them (then they get carried back up past the whole floor, which is most of the point). Add the agency, the floor and a mobile, for a thank you or a celebration.

Anna, on what lasts on a desk

Aircon is dry air, and it pulls water from a thin petal until the edges curl. Woody natives shrug it off. The Native Arrangement With Chocolates sits in its own foam; keep it an arm’s length from the vent.

The notice is on your phone. For a service at the Bluegum Chapel at William Cole Funerals, 60 Nettlefold Street, or further along at White Lady Funerals at number 101, put the name of the person who has died, the chapel and the service time in the notes, so the funeral flowers reach the funeral director before the family does. If the service is interstate or already over, sympathy flowers to the home say the same thing, and the card tends to get kept long after the flowers. It can be short: “Thinking of you all, with love.”

Anna’s call: a sheath for the chapel. The White Lily & Rose Sheath lies flat on the casket, and a sheath has no foam in it, so afterwards the family can untie it and put the stems in water at home.

Plenty of what we send never fits a heading: a new place, a rough week, a saw-this-and-thought-of-you. Anna has a view on this one.

The Blissful Botanics Arrangement is built into wet foam, so nobody needs a vase at all. Foam water goes stale, though, and stale water rots the stems from the base, so whoever has it should top the foam up every couple of days. If they are a natives person, our native flowers are worth a look.