Same Day Flower Delivery to Cotton Tree

The birthday is today and you're a long way from Cotton Tree. A lot of addresses here are units, so put the unit number and the name on the intercom in the notes; at the Plantation Retirement Resort on Memorial Avenue, for one, it's seven levels of apartments behind a single entrance. If they're on holiday at Cotton Tree Holiday Park, the cabin or site number and their mobile do the same job. 70th birthday flowers and the best-selling birthday flowers can both go today.

Holiday parks are why I always want a mobile number in the notes. In the summer of 2008 I drove a birthday bunch from our Marine Parade shop to Hastings Point Holiday Park with a site number and nothing else. Empty caravan. The man in the next van pointed his stubby at Cudgera Creek, where she was standing knee-deep with a fishing rod. I crossed the sand in my good work shoes (a mistake), and she read the card without leaving the water. The park at Cotton Tree sits right on a river mouth too, so I would put the mobile in every time.

Anna, on a unit with the sliding door open

Sea air dries soft petals fast, so go waxy. If the Australian Native Arrangement comes with protea or leucadendron in it, the salt barely registers. Put it on the kitchen bench and it goes the distance.

Someone has had surgery or a fall, and you can't get up there this week. For Maroochy Private in the Maroochydore city centre, add the ward and their full name: the building is shared with clinics and specialists, and in our experience flowers go to reception first. At home, a mobile does it. Flowers won't fix the hospital food, and they'll still be the first thing they see on waking. "Rest up. Home soon." is plenty for the card. Browse get well flowers or hospital flowers.

Anna's pick: the 3 Gerberas In A Vase. They arrive already sitting in water, so nobody on the ward has to hunt for a vase and scissors, and they go straight on the bedside table.

You've had the news, and the service is this week. Start with where they go: the funeral, or the family's home. For the funeral, put the funeral director's name and the service time in the notes so the flowers are there before it starts; a wreath or sheath is made for the service. For the home, sympathy flowers sent a few days after the service tend to land once the visitors have thinned out. "Holding you all close this week" is enough for the card.

Whites and creams sit quietly among the other tributes. A sheath is a flat spray made to lie on the casket or a table, so nothing tips when it moves from the car to the chapel. The White Lily & Rose Sheath is built that way.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: thanks for the spare room, a new job, just because. They go out the same day too. Anna would start with the Bright Bunch & White Wine, and the bottle makes it a gift for two.

Bright mixed colour reads as happy without claiming an occasion. Straight into a vase, inside, out of the breeze.