Same Day Flower Delivery Flaxton, Cool Nights Help

It's their birthday, they live in Flaxton, and you won't be there. If they work in Nambour or on the coast, choose the house or the workplace before you order. For the house, add the number, the driveway and a mobile to the notes; out here the number is on the road and the house can be well back. Start with our birthday flowers or birthday flowers for a friend.

Anna's call: the Blue Mist Arrangement sits in wet foam, so it keeps drinking on a shady verandah until someone gets home.

You've booked them a weekend away and want the flowers in the room before they are. For an anniversary or a plain I love you, send to the accommodation.

I learned the timing in 2008, driving an anniversary bunch from our Marine Parade shop in Kingscliff, out past Murwillumbah, to Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat on Booka Road. The notes said: in the bungalow before we arrive. I got lost twice. They arrived first. The husband met me in the car park, walked the flowers round the back and came in the front door with them like it was the plan all along. I reversed out slowly.

Same in Flaxton: the booking name and the check-in date in the notes, and the order in early enough to beat their car up the hill.

A bunch left in a dry sink draws air up its cut stems instead of water, and nobody packs a vase for a weekend away. The Simply Stylish With Chocolates & Vase comes with its own vase, so the stems go straight into water.

Someone from Flaxton has died. Flowers for the service go to the funeral director, with the director's name, the venue and the service time in the notes; sympathy flowers go to the family at home, usually in the week after. On the card, something like Thinking of you all, with love. The flowers change nothing about what happened, and the card is often the thing that gets kept.

Anna, on service flowers

A sheath is a flat spray of long stems made to lie on a coffin, so there's no water to spill on a winding drive. The White Lily & Rose Sheath is the one I'd send.

Someone in Flaxton is unwell. If they're recovering at home, send get well flowers to the house with a mobile in the notes. If they're in Nambour General or Selangor Private, name the hospital, the ward and their full name, and choose from our hospital flowers, which suit a ward. On the card: Rest up. Thinking of you. For a thank-you to your hosts, or no idea at all, Anna has a view, and her pick happens to be our second most popular product.

Send the Australian Native Arrangement. Once the soft stems finish, the protea and leucadendron in it dry where they stand and last months on a shelf. They drink hard, so top up the foam.