Same Day Flower Delivery in Landers Shoot, QLD 4555

It's their birthday, they're on a few acres, and they could be anywhere from the kitchen to the back paddock. The Florists Choice Birthday Bunch, or anything from the birthday flowers, goes to the house today, with a mobile in the notes in case they're outside.

I learned about hills the wet way. In 2008 I took a vase of roses up Currumbin Creek Road, in the Currumbin Valley, for a lady turning seventy, with the vase belted into the passenger seat (very pleased with myself). Seatbelts do nothing for water. Her driveway was the steep bit. The roses were fine, my lap was not, and she laughed until she had to sit down on the step.

Landers Shoot is named for a timber chute that sent logs down the side of the range, and some of the driveways feel like it. In our experience the florist packs a vase to ride a climb like that, and the notes do the rest: which house, and a mobile.

Scruffy outer petal on a rose? Pull it off. Guard petals take the knocks on the way, and the bloom underneath is untouched.

Someone's in hospital, or home and already sick of the couch. For Nambour General on Hospital Road, add the ward and their full name; in our experience the ward desk holds hospital flowers through a nap or a scan, then takes them in. At home, a house number and a mobile. For the card: "Rest up. We'll bring the biscuits."

Anna's call: 3 Gerberas In A Vase, or any of the get well flowers with their own vase, so nobody on the ward goes hunting for one. Gerberas carry next to no scent, which the bed next door will appreciate.

A funeral notice, and a service you may not make. A sheath like the White Lily & Rose Sheath, or a wreath from the funeral flowers, goes via the funeral director, so give us their name and the service time. For the family, the Florists Choice Sympathy Bunch or other sympathy flowers for home can go to the house that week or the one after. Flowers don't make any of it lighter, and families still keep the cards. "With love, thinking of you every day" is plenty.

Anna, on white

Whites and creams sit quietly in a house full of visitors. White shows every mark by about day four, so it stays cleanest in a cool room out of the sun. If the family's tradition runs to another colour, go with that.

A thank-you, a new baby, a friend who's had a rotten week. Native flowers are our biggest sellers, and they don't need an occasion to make sense.

Anna's pick: the Australian Native Arrangement. It's set in wet foam, so nothing shifts in the car and it needs no vase at the other end. If there's a protea in it, it drinks hard, so tip a cup of water into the foam twice a week.