Flower Delivery Harper Creek Today, Crystal Waters Too

Someone you love has just bought a few acres on the creek, and you'd like something waiting when the boxes come off the truck. Our celebration flowers suit a new place. Put a mobile in the notes as well, because new owners haven't always got a sign up yet.

I found that out in 2008, with Asha in her baby seat, taking a welcome bunch up Byrrill Creek Road past Uki, where the letterboxes sit a long way apart up the valley. The couple had moved in that week and there was nothing on their gate, so I counted letterboxes instead (and I was sure I'd counted right). Wrong farmhouse. The man there looked at the name on the envelope, said "You'll want the new people, two gates up, green tank," and went back to his fence. Harper Creek Road is that kind of road, so a word about the gate helps the florist more than the number does.

Anna's call: in a house full of boxes, nobody has unpacked a vase yet, so go with something from the flower arrangements range. An arrangement comes in its own container with water already in it, so it can go on the first flat surface and keep drinking. A hand-tied bunch has to wait for someone to find a vase before it can drink.

They're out of hospital, from Maleny or from Sunshine Coast University Hospital at Birtinya, and you're a long drive away. Once they're home, send get well flowers to the house. If they're still in, our hospital flowers are sized for a bedside, but check the discharge date before you order; when we took the calls ourselves, we heard more than once about flowers reaching a bed that had been stripped that morning. Flowers won't get anyone back on their feet faster, and they still make the first week home feel like somebody noticed. On the card, "Home at last. Take it slowly." says enough.

Anna, on a room with the curtains drawn

A recovery room tends to stay shut and dim, and scent builds up fast when the doors stay closed. Oriental lilies and stock are glorious in an open kitchen. For a sickroom, pollen-free Asiatic lilies and chrysanthemums give the same colour without filling the air.

It's the last week of term, and your grandchild's teacher at Conondale State School on the Maleny-Kenilworth Road has earned a proper thank-you (teachers get given a lot of mugs). Send it to the school in school hours with the teacher's full name and class. In our experience the front office takes flowers in and gets them to the right room, and a school that has emptied out for the day has nobody left to take them.

Teachers carry these home at three o'clock in a hot car. A hand-tied bunch rides that trip best standing upright in the footwell, and if it came with a water pack, the little bag of water tied around the stems, leave it on until they're inside.

Plenty of good reasons to send flowers don't have a heading: a new job, a calf that finally arrived, a friend you haven't rung in too long. Anna has a view on this one.

Go with Florist's Choice. The florist gets to build it from whatever came in firmest that day, and in a humid week those are the stems that hold their heads up longest.