Same Day Flower Delivery Image Flat, Birthday or Funeral

It's their birthday, you're not there, and the house sits behind a gate you've never seen. The flowers can arrive today all the same. Image Flat is mostly rural lots, so give us the house number, a word about the gate and a mobile. Start with our birthday flowers, or the best-selling birthday flowers if you're not sure what they like.

Nobody home to unwrap it? Stand a hand-tied bunch in a jug of water and leave the tie on. The tie holds the shape it was built in, so cut it when there's time for a proper vase.

A funeral notice, a start time, and questions you'd rather not ring the family with. Funeral flowers go to the director before the service, and in our experience the director sets them out, so the director's name and the service time are all the notes need. A late-afternoon service can sometimes be done the same day, so ring us to check; for a morning one, order the day before. Sympathy flowers for the home can follow later, with a card as simple as "So sorry. Thinking of you all." Flowers feel like too little at a time like this, and they still carry your name into the room.

Anna, on service flowers

A sheaf lies flat on a coffin or the grass, so there's nothing to tip. I'd pick the White Lily & Rose Sheath: white and cream go with any other flowers at the service.

You ring on Sundays and visit when you can. Image Flat has no aged care of its own, so if Mum or Dad is in care nearby, it's likely a home in Nambour, like Nambour Gardens. A thinking of you bunch or 80th birthday flowers get to the room the same way: in our experience staff carry flowers in once they know which room.

I learned that at Winders Lodge in Banora Point in 2008, holding a birthday arrangement from our Marine Parade shop while she was out on the bus to Tweed City (nobody had told her son, or me). The nurse had it in her room before the bus got back. So put the full name and room number in the notes.

Anna's call: the 3 Gerberas In A Vase. No scent to bother a roommate, no staining pollen on the bedspread, and the vase comes too.

Home from hospital, laid up on the couch, or on a ward in Nambour: get well flowers suit all three, and "Rest up. Thinking of you." says enough on the card. You don't need an occasion at all, though. When nobody can decide, I'd go Florist's Choice, built from the best of what the florist has in that day.