Hervey Bay Flower Delivery Today

It's Mum's eightieth, you're interstate, and all you have is the name of her resort. I had exactly that order one afternoon around 2008, for a woman at Palm Lake Resort on Winders Place, Banora Point: her name, the resort, no villa number. I did two slow laps of identical streets reading letterboxes before a man on a gopher asked who I was after and led me there at gopher pace, which was still quicker than I'd managed. She'd been at the window since ten.

Palm Lake has a resort in Eli Waters too, so put the villa number and her phone number in the notes, then choose from our 80th birthday flowers, or the 70th birthday range for a seventieth.

Anna's call: the box again, because it sits low among the birthday cards and nobody has to go looking for a jug, and strong colour, because her chair may be on the far side of the room.

You got a text saying she's been admitted, and not much more. Name the hospital, Hervey Bay Hospital or St Stephen's, then her full name and the ward. From what our florists have seen, flowers go to the front desk and ward staff take them up, sometimes an hour or two later. Cancer wards often don't take flowers at all, so ring first if that's where she is. For a new baby at Hervey Bay Hospital, address new baby flowers to the mother. Our get well flowers and hospital flowers are built for a bedside, and a card as short as "Thinking of you. Home soon." is plenty.

Anna, on ward-friendly flowers

A box or a vase arrangement, never a loose bunch, because nobody on a ward has a spare vase or the time to find one. Save lilies for home, where the scent is part of the gift; in a shared room the next bed didn't ask for it.

Someone has died and you're arranging this from somewhere else, maybe the other side of the world. First decide: the service, or the family at home. Many farewells here are held in a crematorium chapel, so for funeral flowers put the funeral director and the service time in the notes. Sympathy flowers for home are right any day that week. Hervey Bay is Butchulla Country, and for an Aboriginal family, ask what they would like first. On the card, "There are no right words. Thinking of you all." says enough.

White sits right at a church service. A celebration of life wants the person's own colours, and banksia and leucadendron hold for weeks, then dry intact for the family to keep.

Some of the best reasons to send flowers don't have a heading: a scan came back clear, Dad has finally moved into the village, it has simply been too long. Our Australian Native Arrangement is the second most popular thing we sell, and it sits in our native flowers range.

Natives are where I'd start for almost any room here. Leucadendron is really a coloured leaf, and in a room in the low twenties I've seen it go two to four weeks. Protea drinks hard, so top it up every day or two, and keep waxflower away from the fruit bowl or it drops every floret at once.