Same Day Flower Delivery in Weetangera, Home or School

You'll ring to say happy birthday from somewhere else, and you'd like the flowers there when you do. Add a mobile and a shaded spot by the door to the notes (birthday mornings have a way of turning into a walk up the Pinnacle or a long coffee somewhere). Every birthday bunch carries your card, and if it's Dad's turn, flowers for him are less awkward than you'd think.

Anna's pick: the Australian Native Arrangement. It brings its own container, so nobody goes hunting for a vase, and the wet foam inside is the water supply. Top the foam up every day or two, daily if there's a protea in it, and it goes the distance.

End of term, a teacher who got your child through the year, and a card written in a minute. School flowers tend to stop at the front office first, so for Weetangera Primary put the teacher's full name and class in the notes. I learned why in December 2007, carrying a thank-you bunch from our Marine Parade shop into Kingscliff Public School on Orient Street. I'd taken the order on the phone and written "For Jenny" on the card. The office had three. A Year 6 farewell works the same way, with our graduation flowers.

Lilies open bud by bud, so the 2 Lily Stems In Glass Vase keep opening after school's out, and the vase comes with them. Pinch the orange anthers off as each one opens, because dry pollen marks a shirt for good.

The notice gives you a church or a chapel, a time, and not much else. Close by are St Matthew's on Chewings Street in Page and, for a funeral home service, the Bluegum Chapel at William Cole Funerals on Nettlefold Street, Belconnen. Put the full name and service time in the notes (both are on the notice), and the funeral director's team will normally set the funeral flowers out. A bunch to the house a week later gets noticed. Flowers won't change what's happened, and they're still what the family remembers. On the card: "Thinking of you all. With love."

Anna, on a sheath that goes home afterwards

A sheath has no foam, so after the service the family can unwrap it, recut the stems and stand it in a tall vase for most of another week. The Pink Lily & Rose Sheath is good at this, because the lily buds still closed at the service open over the next few days. Browse wreaths and sheaths.

Some sends don't come with a clear occasion, and that's fine: a neighbour just home from North Canberra Hospital, a friend you haven't rung in too long. Thinking-of-you flowers cover most of them, get well flowers suit the neighbour, and just because is a real reason too. On the card: "Thought of you today."

Anna's suggestion: the Lovely Lilac & Lime Bunch. Lilac and lime read as neither birthday nor sympathy, which is the point here.