Flower Delivery Kings Beach Today, Home or St Andrew's

Someone you love is at Kings Beach for the week, and the birthday or the anniversary falls right in the middle of it. Send the flowers to the apartment while they're here, or to their home once they're back. For the apartment, the notes need the building name, the unit number, a mobile and the day they check out.

I learned about check-out days in 2007. A woman in Melbourne ordered birthday roses for her sister, who was staying at the Kingscliff Beach Holiday Park on Marine Parade, the same street as our shop. Close enough to walk, so I walked. The office found the booking straight away. She had checked out at ten, a day early, because of the rain. It was eleven. I carried the roses back up Marine Parade past everyone who had watched me carry them down. Plenty of Kings Beach holiday apartments turn over by the week in the same way, which is why the check-out day in the notes is the detail that saves the order.

Anna's call: a holiday unit has whatever vase the owner left behind, sometimes a jug, sometimes nothing. A boxed arrangement is its own vase, sits on a bench without tipping, and rides home in the car at the end of the week.

You've read the notice twice. The service is at St Andrew's Anglican Church, or there's no service to send to and the family is at home. For the church, pick from our funeral flowers and put the service time and the family's surname in the notes, and the florist works back from the start time. In our experience a church takes flowers in without fuss once the notes say whose service they're for. For the house, sympathy flowers for home suit a smaller room.

Flowers change nothing about what happened. People still remember who sent them. On the card, "Thinking of you all, with love" is enough.

Whites, creams and soft greens sit quietly in a church. White lisianthus and white chrysanthemum hold for days in a warm room, so whatever goes home with the family afterwards still looks right a week on.

A friend lent you their Kings Beach unit for the week, or a neighbour has been keeping an eye on it while it sits empty, and a bottle of wine left on the bench feels thin. Send thank-you flowers to wherever they actually live, timed for the day you head home. It doesn't need to be big. A bunch of yellow flowers says thanks without a speech.

Anna, on a cheerful bunch that lasts

Sunflowers and yellow gerberas both want clean water. A gerbera stem is hollow, old water clogs it, and the head bends at the neck. Fresh water every second day keeps them standing.

Some orders never had a heading: a friend who has just moved up for good, a new neighbour two floors down, a text that says "saw this, thought of you". Anna's pick for these is natives: they suit almost anyone, and they last.

Leucadendron and protea, with a banksia if there's one in. Leucadendron goes two to four weeks in a room at twenty-odd degrees, and protea drinks hard, so top the water up every day or two. Once the softer stems around them have finished, the leucadendron dries where it stands and keeps going on a shelf for months.