Same Day Flower Delivery Chevallum

The birthday is today and you have mostly seen the house in photos. On acreage the house can be a long way up the drive from the letterbox, so add a mobile and say if the gate stays shut. Our birthday flowers for Mum and flower bunches can all go out today.

I learned about long drives in 2008, taking a birthday bunch from our Marine Parade shop up Round Mountain Road, out behind Cudgen, with Asha asleep in the back. I ended up behind the school bus, then behind three kids walking up the very driveway I needed, at kid speed. It was their mum's birthday. By the time I got to the top they had taken the credit (the card was from her sister in Sydney, and I let the card explain). Chevallum has the same long drives and the same afternoon bus, and a mobile in the notes gets the flowers to the right door, kids or no kids.

Anna's pick: the Australian Native Arrangement. It arrives ready to set down on a kitchen bench, and the woody stems are still going after the soft ones finish.

A baby has arrived and you can't get there this week. Before or after they go home both work. For the maternity ward at Birtinya, add the mum's full name and the ward; in our experience the ward desk takes them in. Our new baby flowers and flower arrangements both work for a ward or the house. For the card: "Welcome, little one."

A new mum isn't changing vase water, so pick something already sitting in water. Gerberas carry next to no perfume, which suits a small room with a baby asleep in it.

Someone in a Chevallum family has died, and the flowers need to reach the service or the people left behind. For the funeral, our wreaths and sheaths go through the funeral director; put the director's name and the service time in the notes. For the house, add the family surname and a phone number, because a house tends to fill with cars that week. Our sympathy flowers for home and white sympathy flowers are made for a table in a busy room. Flowers are a small thing against what has happened, and families still remember who sent them. For the card: "Thinking of you all."

Anna, on colour for a full house

Whites and creams sit quietly in a room full of people and don't compete with anything else in it. White shows marks sooner than colour, so it stays cleanest on a table out of the sun.

Some orders fit no card at all: a thank-you to the neighbour who fed the horses, a new job, a rough week. You don't need a category to send flowers, and our just because flowers are there for exactly that.

Anna has a view on this. The Bright Arrangement With Chocolates arrives ready to go straight on a sideboard, and bright colour needs no occasion to make sense.