Same Day Flower Delivery to Coniston, Built for a Warm Room

Mum or Nan turns ninety, the cake is at Warrigal or her own kitchen table, and you are a state away. Siobhan and I carried flowers into hundreds of nursing homes ourselves between 2006 and 2009, and the one on Kingscliff Street, a block back from our shop on Marine Parade, taught me about size. I walked in with a bunch as tall as a six-year-old. The resident's bedside table was the size of a tea tray. If she is in care, pick an arrangement from our 80th birthday flowers or 90th birthday flowers.

Anna's call: if the arrangement arrives in floral foam, pour a cup of fresh water into the foam every couple of days. Foam that dries out takes the stems with it, and nobody can see it happening until the heads drop.

The funeral notice came through and you cannot get down for it. At the 2021 census 11.8 percent of Coniston gave Macedonian ancestry and 14.2 percent gave Eastern Orthodox as their religion, so a good number of farewells go from St Dimitrija Solunski, the Macedonian Orthodox church on Stewart Street in Wollongong, and others from Coniston United Church. Ask the family which church, put it and the start time in the notes, and choose from our wreaths and sheaths, or our sympathy flowers for home for the house afterwards.

The Orthodox services I put flowers together for leaned white, and a round wreath reads as eternity, so the wreaths went at the church entrance where the family walked in. Orthodox families usually hold a memorial at forty days as well, and flowers are welcome at that one too.

For the card: "With you all today, and at the forty days."

Someone at Warrigal looked after your mum all winter, or the nurses at Wollongong Hospital got your dad home, and a card feels thin. Write where they work (the ward, or the home) and "for the staff" in the notes; in our experience something with chocolates, like the Bright Arrangement With Chocolates, gets shared round the shift. More ideas in our thank you flowers.

Anna, on the staff room

Keep it off the bench beside the fruit bowl. Ripening fruit gives off ethylene, and carnations read that as the signal to curl up. Chrysanthemums couldn't care less.

No favourite colour to go on, and news you only heard this morning. Anna has a view on this.

Go natives. Proteas and leucadendrons have woody stems and tough heads, a leucadendron can go ten days or more in a heated room, and both dry on a shelf afterwards. Try the Australian Native Arrangement, or see our native flowers.