Flower Delivery to Fyshwick Today, Office or Workshop

It's a friend's birthday and they're at work all day (or have the flowers go to their house, if they'd hate the fuss). A lot of Fyshwick addresses are a unit in a block, so their business name and full name matter more than the number.

Andrew learnt that on Industry Drive in Tweed Heads South in 2008, holding a docket with a unit number and a first name, and carrying pink gerberas into a panel shop with the compressor going. Nobody heard him. He stood there for five minutes (he says two) while a row of blokes in overalls looked him up and down, and the birthday girl was upstairs in the office the whole time. Every docket after that had the business name and a full name across the top.

For a bloke's birthday, go protea and leucadendron. Woody stems hold their heads up on a bench all week and look like somebody chose them on purpose.

A supplier who got you out of a hole, or someone's last Friday after twenty years at the same dealership. Thank-you flowers sent to work land in front of the whole team, and the whole team reads the card, so keep it short and sign it from the business. If they've already finished up, send the flowers to their house instead. For a retirement, a celebration bunch strikes the right note.

Anna's tip: farewell flowers go home in the car that afternoon, so pick an arrangement set in foam. The foam holds its water on the passenger seat, where a vase would slop it into the footwell at the first roundabout.

The news comes through at work and someone ends up organising flowers from everyone. Flowers from the team are a small thing against what the family is going through, and families still notice who sent them. For a service in the chapel at White Lady Funerals on Canberra Avenue, Kingston (it seats about forty), put the full name of the person who died and the service time in the notes, so the funeral flowers can be in place before the family arrives. Flowers for the home can go a few days later. Keep the card plain: "With deepest sympathy, from everyone at [business name]," or just "Thinking of you all, from the team."

Anna, on what sits right in a small chapel

In a small chapel, whites and soft greens sit quietly beside the family. A White Lily & Rose Sheath lies flat on the coffin or a side table, needs no vase, and the lilies keep opening right through the service.

Plenty of orders into a workplace don't fit a heading: a new job, a deal that finally closed, a rotten week. Anna has a view on this one.

The 3 Gerberas In A Vase. The vase comes with them, handy if nobody at the warehouse owns one, and gerberas, like most of the daisy family, barely notice a whiff of exhaust. Top the water up every couple of days. A gerbera stem is hollow, so it runs dry quickly, and a thirsty gerbera bows at the neck.