Same Day Flower Delivery Berkeley NSW

It's their birthday, it's today, and you're nowhere near the lake. Pick from our bestselling birthday flowers, or a 50th birthday bunch for a big one. Old street or new street in Regency Heights, the order goes in like any other. What matters is whether anyone will be home.

January 2008, I took a birthday bunch to a brand-new street in Casuarina, next door to Kingscliff. No trees. Nobody home. I sat in the van with the aircon on for forty minutes until the woman having the birthday got back from the shops. She thought I was from the council. New streets in Berkeley are no different, so put a mobile number and a shady spot in the notes.

Cellophane in full sun works like a small glasshouse: the heat builds under the wrap and soft petals go limp. Once it's inside and in water, a bunch that has gone limp usually picks back up.

Mum or Dad is at St Mary's Berkeley, 211 Northcliffe Drive, and you can't get there this week. Put their full name and room number on the order; in our experience reception takes the flowers and staff carry them through. Send something already in water, like the 3 Gerberas In A Vase, because nobody on a busy floor is hunting for a vase. An 80th, a 90th birthday or no reason at all, the order doesn't change.

Card message idea: Thinking of you, Mum. Ring you Sunday.

Anna, on a care room

A gerbera stem is hollow (florists call it a scape), and when the water runs low it folds at the neck. That's why florists often run a fine wire up the inside to hold the head. Worth asking whoever visits to top the vase up and move it away from the aircon vent, because dry air empties a vase faster than you'd expect.

You've read the funeral notice twice and you can't make the service. If it says Wollongong Memorial Gardens on Berkeley Road, that address, 176 Berkeley Road, is in Unanderra. The Gardens have a Main and a Family chapel, so put the chapel and the service time in the notes. For a funeral Mass at St Mary of the Rosary on Northcliffe Drive, put the church and the service time. Our wreaths and sheaths go to the service, and sympathy flowers for the home go to the family's house afterwards. Flowers don't change the day. The family still reads the cards.

Card message idea: With love to you all. Thinking of you.

Anna's call: whites and soft greens sit quietly beside a casket. A sheath, like the White Lily & Rose Sheath, lies flat on the casket or a table, so there's nothing to tip over.

You've never met them, or there's no occasion beyond thinking about them. Anna has a view on these.

When you know nothing about the person, a mix is the safe bet, because no single flower has to be their favourite. My pick is the Rose, Gerbera & Lilies Bunch: three kinds of flower fill a vase on day one, and the lily buds keep opening one at a time after the roses have fully opened.