Flower Delivery Currimundi, Same Day in Wallum Country

Someone is turning ninety at 28 Saffron Drive and the cake is happening without you. That address is two places: Ozcare's Caroline Chisholm aged-care home and the Currimundi Gardens retirement village beside it. In the notes, say which one, with the full name and the room or unit number.

I learned why that matters on foot, around 2007, delivering gerberas to a lady at a retirement village on the Tweed. The nursing home shared the grounds, so I tried its front desk first. She lived in the village. A resident on a mobility scooter led me to her villa at walking pace, which for him was flat out. Twenty-five minutes, for a delivery four minutes from the shop. Saffron Drive is the same set-up.

Anna's steer: care rooms tend to be small and air-conditioned. Keep it compact, keep it off a sunny windowsill, and pick a bunch with carnations or chrysanthemums in the photo, because both shrug off dry air. The 80th birthday range is worth a look as well as the 90th.

The baby arrived at Sunshine Coast University Hospital and the family will be home in Currimundi before long. Stays after a birth tend to be short, so if mum and baby are close to leaving, send new baby flowers to the house instead. For the ward, give the mother's full name; in our experience hospital flowers reach the ward desk before the bed. On the card: "Welcome, little one. Sleep when you can."

Anna, on a room with a newborn in it

Nothing that sheds and nothing heavily scented: pollen and perfume both carry in a small room. A boxed arrangement needs no vase and no scissors, which suits a room where nobody has a spare hand.

A funeral notice with a date on it, and a Currimundi family you want to reach twice. Service flowers go through the funeral director, so give us the funeral director's name and the service time, and a wreath or sheath goes to them for the service. Sympathy flowers can follow to the house a few days later, once the visitors thin out. On the card: "So sorry. Thinking of you all."

A wreath or sheath lies flat, so it stays put on a coffin or a stand where a vase would tip. For the house, whites, creams and soft greens sit quietly among the sympathy cards on the kitchen bench.

Plenty of orders fit no heading: a new job, a rough week, the neighbour who fed the cat. Anna would steer you to natives here, and I'd let her.

Banksia belongs on this coast; the wallum heath out past the lake takes its name from the Kabi word for the wallum banksia. A native bunch shrugs off a warm room, and if there's banksia in it, the cones dry on a shelf and keep for months after the softer stems finish. Split the woody stem ends so they can drink.