Same Day Flower Delivery Diddillibah, Paddock to River

The birthday is today and you're nowhere near the table. Send the flowers to the house, with the road number and a mobile in the notes, or straight to the lunch. Try our birthday flowers for Mum, or the ones picked for a 60th.

In 2008 I drove a birthday bunch from our Marine Parade shop to the Tumbulgum Tavern, on the Tweed River. The notes said: birthday lunch, on the deck. It was a Saturday. Every table on the deck was a birthday lunch. I did two laps with the gerberas, asking strangers if anyone was turning sixty. Three said yes. One was joking. The real one was inside. The Waterfront Hotel on David Low Way sits on the Maroochy River the same way, so put the booking name and the time in the notes.

Anna's call: an arrangement in a vase for a long lunch. It drinks its own water on the table until the plates are cleared.

Someone has died, and the service is at Diddillibah Cemetery or a chapel nearby. Put the funeral director's name and the service time in the notes: the cemetery, there since 1896, has no office, and in our experience the director carries the flowers in. For the house, send sympathy flowers for the home once the visitors have thinned out. It will feel small against what has happened, and the family still reads every card. "Thinking of you all, with love" is enough.

A tall vase tips on lawn turf. A sheath lies flat, and after the service it often goes home with the family. Keep it to whites and creams; the wreaths and sheaths are all built that way.

They're in hospital, maybe Sunshine Coast University Hospital at Birtinya, with a ward name off a text. Coming home in a day or two? Send to the house. Otherwise their full name and the ward go in the notes; in our experience the ward desk takes them in and a nurse walks them to the bed. Intensive care usually won't take flowers, so for anyone in ICU, send to the house for when they're out. Our hospital flowers are a good place to start. "Rest up. See you soon" fits most cards.

Anna, on the bed next door

Save the lilies for home: in a shared room, the bed next door didn't ask for the perfume. Gerberas and chrysanthemums bring the colour without it. More get well flowers here.

Some orders fit no heading at all: a new job, a rotten week, a thank-you to the neighbour who fed the horses.

Anna would send the Pastel Pink Lilies & Roses Arrangement. Roses for the colour, lilies for the smell, and it arrives already in water. If scent is the point, our lilies start here.