Same Day Flower Delivery Kiamba, Kept Fresh in the Vase

It's their birthday, you can't be there, and on a Kiamba block the house can sit well back from the road. Birthday flowers can go out today; the notes do the finding.

I learned that in 2008, driving a birthday arrangement from our Marine Parade shop out to Doon Doon, behind Murwillumbah, for a house the notes called "past the dam" (that's Clarrie Hall Dam, which holds the Tweed's drinking water, and there are a lot of houses past it). Three of them, nobody home at any, and I was starting to feel a bit sick about it, until I passed the picnic ground by the water on the way back and there she was, at a table full of balloons, cutting her own cake. I walked across the grass holding her flowers like I'd been invited, and somebody handed me a slice. It was very good cake.

Kiamba has a dam too, Wappa, with the barbecues at Jack Harrison Park looking over it, so add a mobile and tell us if the party might be away from the house.

Anna's call: for a house that might be empty, an arrangement. The stems sit in wet foam, so it keeps drinking on a shaded verandah until someone's home.

Someone's had a fall or a procedure, and the ward number reached you in a text. For Nambour General Hospital, send hospital flowers with their full name and ward; in our experience reception takes them in and staff carry them up. Home already? Send get well flowers to the house. On the card: Take it slow. Thinking of you.

Anna, on a shared room

Skip lilies on a ward; the scent fills the room and the next bed didn't ask for it. 3 Gerberas In A Vase carry next to none, and they arrive already in their vase.

You're arranging flowers around a time somebody else set, often from a long way off. Give us the funeral director's name and the start time; in our experience the director takes the funeral flowers in, which matters at Yandina Cemetery, where no office is staffed. A morning service needs the order the day before; for an afternoon one, ring us and we'll tell you if today is possible.

When the house goes quiet a few days later, send sympathy flowers for the home, when someone has time to sit with them. Flowers are a small thing next to a loss, and people still keep the card. Something like: No words, just love.

For the service itself, the White Funeral Wreath sits on a foam ring that holds water, so it keeps its shape through a warm graveside service.

Plenty of orders fit no heading: a thank-you to whoever minded the place, a friend new to acreage, someone you haven't rung in too long. For the first, there are thank-you flowers. For the rest, Anna has a view.

I'd send Simply Stylish With Chocolates & Vase. It arrives in a vase, so nobody hunts for one and the stems go straight into water. Top it up from the drinking tap.