Flower Delivery Curramore, Same Day, Made Near the Obi Valley

The property has been sold or handed on, and the person you are sending to has one room at Erowal instead of a whole farm. The saddest kind of move and, most days, the right one. Put their full name and room number on the order; in our experience that is what gets flowers from the front desk to the right door. Thinking of you flowers do the job, and "Thinking of you, and missing our cuppas" on the card says the rest.

Around 2008 Andrew took lilies to Noble Lakeside Park, the retirement village a few minutes from our Kingscliff shop, with Asha (nine months old, not on the books) screaming in the back. Half the residents drifted to the glass, a lady in a cardigan told him they had had grandchildren quieter than that (and then that Asha was gorgeous, which she was), and he came home with pollen down his shirt looking like the intern. Erowal is a long way from Kingscliff, but a delivery into any care home is a small event for the whole corridor, so it helps if what arrives actually fits the room.

Anna's steer: go low and compact. Flowers about one and a half times the height of their container sit right on a bedside table, and an arrangement already in its own container needs no vase from anyone. A tall bunch tends to end up on the windowsill, and that is where the sun finds it.

It is their birthday, they are on a property off Curramore Road or the Maleny-Kenilworth Road, and you are hours away (if they will be at work in town that day, send it there instead). The number out here is on the letterbox at the road and the house can be well up the drive, so describe the gate and add a mobile someone will answer. Birthday flowers are the easy start, and if it is a big one, there is a range just for a 60th.

Inside, keep them clear of the fruit bowl. Ripening fruit gives off ethylene, which flowers read as the signal to finish, and carnations that would go a couple of weeks on the dining table curl within days beside the bananas.

Someone has died, and on a property the work does not stop for it, which somehow makes the week harder. Service flowers go through the funeral director, so put their name and the service time in the notes. For the family, the house a day or two later is often better, once the visitors thin out, and our sympathy flowers for home are made for that. On the card, "So sorry. Thinking of every one of you." is plenty.

Anna, on white in a cool front room

White shows every mark. Put it in the coolest room, out of direct sun, and white sympathy flowers stay clean at the edges far longer than most people expect. Strip any leaf below the waterline; it rots first, and the rot stops the stems drinking.

Plenty of orders never fit a heading: a good season, a grandchild on the way, or just missing someone who lives a long way up a winding road. Anna would say roses, and for once she and I agree.

Roses love a cool room. In one, a good rose gives you about ten days to a fortnight, opening a little further each morning.