Flower Delivery to Dickson ACT, Same Day

It's their birthday, they live in a block off Northbourne Avenue, and you have a street and a first name.

In 2008 a docket at our Kingscliff shop read "Kylie, Q1, Surfers Paradise". No unit number. Q1 has seventy-eight floors. I drove the roses up anyway. They stayed at the front desk, and Kylie rang the shop that night to say thanks.

Dickson's blocks are smaller than Q1, and the docket problem is the same. Put the unit number, the building name and a mobile in the notes, then choose our birthday flowers for a friend, or something romantic for a partner.

The Florist's Choice Birthday Arrangement With Chocolates holds its own water in the foam, so there's no vase to find. Keep it off a west-facing sill: afternoon sun through apartment glass dulls bright colours fast, and a gerbera in that spot is faded in about two days. In January, get the chocolates into the fridge first, because over thirty degrees they soften before the card's been read.

Someone has started a new job, finished a long project, or is leaving a team after years in it.

For the ACT Government Office Building at 480 Northbourne Avenue, put their full name, floor and team in the notes. In our experience the flowers are signed for at reception and someone rings up to the floor, which is why the floor matters as much as the name. Thank-you flowers and congratulations flowers both suit a desk.

Anna's pick: the Gorgeous White Arrangement. Office heating through a Canberra winter dries foam fast, and air conditioning does the same in summer, so give it a slow pour at the base every second day. Its green chrysanthemums hold for close to two weeks.

The notice says St Brigid's on Bancroft Street, or the chapel at Norwood Park in Mitchell, and a time.

Put the name of the person who died and the service time in the notes. A wreath or sheath suits the service itself, there are more funeral flowers to choose from, and a week later flowers for the home land once the visitors have thinned out. For the card: "Thinking of you all, and of Margaret," with their name in place of hers.

Anna, on colour at a service

In my experience white is safe at a Mass and across almost every tradition, so the White Funeral Wreath is hard to get wrong. For a Buddhist or Chinese family, leave red out entirely and go white or soft yellow.

Not everything comes with an occasion attached: a housewarming near the light rail, a friend who has had a long week, or just because.

Anna has a view on this one. In a new flat the vase is still in a box somewhere. The Blue Mist Arrangement brings its own mirrored cube, and its lily buds open over the next few days. Pinch the anthers off as each one opens, before the pollen finds a couch that was only delivered last week.