Flower Delivery Elaman Creek Today

It's their birthday, they're somewhere between the house and the back fence, and you're a long way off with only your phone. The flowers go to the house, so tell us which gate, mention any cattle near the house, and add a mobile. Birthday flowers are the easy bit, and if it's Dad's, the ones chosen with him in mind go down better than he'll ever admit.

Andrew found out about the cattle the hard way. Around 2007 he drove a birthday bunch out to a property past Uki, up the Tweed Valley, and met twenty-odd head of Angus between the gate and the house, all very keen on the cellophane. He grew up in Strathfield (it showed). He stood there holding the flowers over his head until the birthday girl's husband came down in the ute, laughing, and walked him through. Elaman Creek is grazing country as well, which is why we ask.

Anna's steer: if the bunch has sat on the verandah waiting for someone to come in, recut every stem on an angle before it goes in a vase. Even in its water pack the cut ends start to seal over with air and bacteria, and a sealed end stops drinking. Two seconds with the scissors opens it up again.

Someone fed the dogs, checked the troughs and locked the shed while you were away, and a note in the letterbox doesn't quite cover it. Thank-you flowers do the job a slab of beer does, and last a good deal longer. If their place has no number out the front, give their name and the road, and describe the driveway the way you'd tell a friend.

Ask for leucadendron with a bit of banksia through it. Woody stems drink slowly and hold their shape, so the bunch still looks like a bunch a fortnight later, when the neighbour finally rings to say thanks.

Mum or Dad has moved off the acreage into a villa in Maleny, and the first few weeks are quieter than anyone let on. It was the right move, and for them it still feels like leaving. If it's Maleny Grove on Palm Street, put the villa number and their full name in the notes, because a village has a lot of front doors that look alike.

Thinking of you flowers need no occasion at all. For the card, something like "Hope the new place is starting to feel like yours," or "The paddocks miss you. So do we."

Anna, on a smaller kitchen

Moving into a smaller place usually puts the vase closer to the fruit bowl, and ripening fruit gives off ethylene, a gas that flowers read as the signal to finish. Carnations curl up and waxflower drops every tiny flower at once. Put them in a different room from the bananas and they carry on as normal.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: a good season, a rough week, or simply that it's been too long. You don't need a reason to send flowers, and you don't need to pick the stems either. Anna always had a soft spot for this one.

Florist's Choice is built from whatever is looking best in the cool room that morning, with no photo to match, so the florist can put a bit of personality into it. It is where you see what a florist can actually do. For a farmhouse table I would pick it every time.