Lyneham Flower Delivery Same Day 

They're in their twenties, they rent, and their only vase might be a pasta jar. Give the building name, unit and mobile for a block off Northbourne Avenue, or their full name for a share house, in case a flatmate answers. The same notes go with a birthday bunch for a daughter or graduation flowers. The Colourful Bunch Including Chocolates suits them: the chocolates go before anyone finds the jar.

Whatever the bunch ends up in, take two centimetres off each stem on an angle before it goes in. Cut flat, a stem sits on the bottom of the jar, seals itself off and the heads start to droop within a day or two. On an angle it keeps drinking.

Mum or Dad is at the Manor on Archibald Street and you're sending from further away. Flowers aren't a visit, and they'll be by the bed long before you are. Every room there is a single, so even a scented bunch with lilies in it bothers nobody else. Put the resident's full name in the notes and, in our experience, reception does the rest. A thinking-of-you card can be this short: "Thinking of you, Dad. See you Sunday."

Anna, on lilies in a room of their own

Lily pollen is the one thing to manage. Pinch the orange anthers off as each lily opens, or ask whoever visits next to do it: no pollen on a cardigan, and in my experience the flower lasts longer because nothing has pollinated it.

The notice says St Ninian's, or the family is Buddhist and the Sakyamuni Buddhist Centre on Archibald Street has come up. For St Ninian's, the 1873 stone church on Brigalow Street, funeral flowers need the start time in the notes. For the temple, ask the family about colour first, and whether flowers go there or to the home. The card: "With love and deepest sympathy."

Anna's pick for a Buddhist family: if the family hasn't said otherwise, white, and only white, because red reads as celebration in most Buddhist and Vietnamese traditions. The Gorgeous Whites Bunch comes in its own glass vase, and white sympathy flowers suit a church just as well.

Close to half the homes in Lyneham are rented, so somebody is always moving in, starting a job in town, or doing something worth a celebration bunch that they'd never mention themselves. Flowers sent just because need no explaining. Anna has a view on the new flat.

Boxes everywhere, and the vase is in one of them. Send the Natives Flowers With A Vase: it brings its own, and the proteas and brunia hold for two weeks or more, which should outlast the unpacking. Keep the vase of natives at the other end of the bench from the fruit bowl, for the waxflower's sake.