Same Day Flower Delivery to Melba ACT

It's Mum's 70th, in the house you grew up in, and you're a long way from it. Send the flowers to the house with a mobile that answers, and if she might be out at the Charnwood shops, name a shady spot in the notes so the bunch isn't left on the step. There's our birthday flowers range, and a page just for 70th birthday flowers.

Anna's pick: the Lovely Lilac & Lime Bunch. Strip every leaf below the waterline, because those rot and block the stems by midweek, and use room-temperature water for the first fill. A Canberra tap in July runs cold enough to slow the drink.

Your granddaughter is finishing Year 12 on Verbrugghen Street, or she's in a dance or drama night (the school runs dance and performing arts, fitting for a suburb named after Nellie Melba), and you want flowers in her arms. Send flowers to the house that afternoon so they go with her; our graduation flowers suit either night. For a teacher, thank-you flowers go to the front office.

I learned the send-it-to-the-house rule at Twin Towns in Tweed Heads in late 2007, Asha on my hip, hunting a stage door with a nan's roses for a dancer. A mum with a clipboard tried to put me in charge of the under-eights, and in the end the roses went backstage with the clipboard mum. I wonder what she thought of us.

Anna, on flowers that get carried around all night

The 3 Wrapped Red Roses cope with a night of hugging. Once the roses get home, take two centimetres off each stem on an angle and get them into water, because a flat cut seals against the bottom of the vase.

The service is at North Belconnen Uniting Church, St Monica's in Evatt or the Bluegum Chapel at William Cole on Nettlefold Street, and you can't be there. Flowers won't make up for missing the service. They do get to the front of the room. For that, choose a wreath or sheath, with the family name and start time in the notes. For the family's house afterwards, a bunch from our sympathy flowers for home. The card can be short: "Thinking of you all."

Too early and a service arrangement sits drying in a back room, too late and it misses the start, which is why florists tend to ring the funeral director for the window. The White Lily & Rose Sheath lies flat and needs no vase.

Someone from Melba is in hospital over in Bruce, a friend has had a rough month, or you haven't rung in a while. Get well flowers to a ward need the hospital, the patient's full name and the ward in the notes. Just because flowers go to the house, and the card can simply say "Thinking of you."

Anna has a view on the ward.

3 Gerberas In A Vase. No scent for the next bed, no pollen to speak of, and the vase comes with them, which matters, because from what the florists I worked with saw, a ward is usually short of a spare.