Same Day Flower Delivery Eudlo, House, School or Ward

You know the address but not the house, which is probably up a driveway somewhere. Put the road number, the gate colour and her mobile in the notes. Birthday flowers for Mum and for a daughter both go out the same day.

In 2008 I drove a birthday bunch from our Kingscliff shop out to Stokers Siding, the old railway village near Burringbar. The notes said the house past the store, can't miss it. I missed it twice (it had been a long day, and there are a lot of houses past that store). So I asked in the Stokers Siding General Store, and the woman at the counter read the name on the card and said, that's me, love. She was at work. Nobody had thought to mention that part. Eudlo is the same kind of village (railway line, general store on Rosebed Street), so on a workday, put where she'll actually be in the notes.

Anna's call: the Rose, Gerbera & Lilies Bunch. The lily buds open one after another, so it keeps changing all week.

They're either home feeling rotten or in hospital, and you might only have a ward number off a text. If they're home, send to the house as you would for a birthday. If they're in hospital, say Nambour General or Selangor Private, the ward and their full name, and in our experience the ward desk takes the flowers in. A card line: Rest up, we're thinking of you. Try our get well flowers or hospital flowers.

Gerberas carry almost no scent, which suits a shared room, and 3 Gerberas In A Vase arrives already standing in water, so nobody on the ward goes looking for a vase.

The notice has come through. For the funeral itself, put the funeral director's name and the service time in the notes, because in our experience the director takes the flowers in and sets them out. For the family, sympathy flowers to the home often mean more a week later. On the card, something like: Thinking of you all, with love. Flowers are a small thing next to what's happened, and people keep those cards for years.

Anna, on service flowers

A sheaf is a flat spray of long stems, built to lie on a casket without tipping, and it goes home in a vase afterwards. The White Lily & Rose Sheath is the one I'd send, and there are more in the wreaths and sheaths range.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: a thank-you for a teacher at Eudlo State School, a new baby, a Tuesday. Anna has a view on these.

In a humid week the florist knows which stems came in strongest that morning, and you can't see that in a photo. That's the case for the Florist's Choice Bunch: the pick of the buckets, chosen by someone who has just looked at them.