Same Day Flower Delivery to Depot Hill

The birthday's in Depot Hill and you're not, so the flowers go in your place. Start with our birthday flowers for Mum or our best-selling birthday flowers if you'd rather not overthink it (nobody minds), and if the house sits up on stumps, name a spot out of the sun in the notes.

I learned that in 2008, carrying a birthday bunch up fourteen stairs to a high-set house in South Murwillumbah, which sits on a flood plain the way Depot Hill does, Asha in the sling, nobody home. It went under the house by the laundry tubs, and I rang the sender from the car. Fourteen stairs. I counted.

Anna's call: natives. If there's leucadendron in a native bunch, the stem with the coloured leaves, it goes about two weeks even in a warm house.

There's a funeral notice open on your phone and too many decisions in it (and now there's this one). For the service, put the funeral director and the time in the notes. Tucker & Nankivell's chapel at Shandon House on Alma Street is on the southside, Harts on Ford Street and Fitzroy Funerals on Musgrave Street are across the river, and in our experience the wreaths and sheaths go to the director ahead of the service.

Sympathy flowers for home can come later, once the house goes quiet and everyone else has gone home. Flowers are small next to what's happened, and they still count. "Thinking of you all, with love" is plenty for the card.

A sheath is built to lie flat, so it rests on a coffin or a chapel table with no vase to tip. For the house, whites and creams. They sit calmly on a bench still crowded with other people's casserole dishes.

A new grandchild, and you won't get a cuddle for weeks yet. If Mum and baby are still in, at Mater Mothers' Private on Ward Street or Rockhampton Hospital on Canning Street, put the ward and bed in the notes, and if they're already home, send to the house instead (no rush, the new parents will be tired). Mater Mothers' lists a 1pm to 3:30pm rest period, and from what our florists have seen, flowers sit at the ward desk until it's over. Start with our new baby flowers, and "Welcome to the world, little one" says enough.

Anna, on new babies

Nothing that sheds, nothing heavily scented, and something already in a vase or a box, because new parents aren't changing vase water. The chocolates in the Blush Pinks Arrangement With Chocolates are for whoever's up at 3am.

Plenty of orders fit no heading, or fit three at once, and you don't have to pick one.

Anna's pick: the Pastel Pink Lilies & Roses Arrangement. It arrives in water, suits a seventieth or a thank-you, and the lilies open bud by bud, so it looks different on day five. Pinch the anthers off as each one opens. Dry pollen stains a cushion for good.