Get Same Day Flower Delivery to Minmi, Birthday or Funeral

A weekday birthday usually means they're at work until five. Send birthday flowers to the workplace with the business name, or to the house. Either way, put their mobile in the notes so the florist can ring them if nobody answers. Turning forty? There's a 40th birthday range too.

A wrapped bunch rides in a wet pack, which holds it for a few hours. The cut ends start to seal while it waits, so once they're home it wants a vase and a fresh angled cut, and the stems can drink again.

There's a new baby and you can't get there for a cuddle yet. Is mum still in John Hunter Hospital? Hospital flowers need her full name and the maternity ward in the notes. Stays are often short, so you can also wait a day or two and send new baby flowers to the house.

In 2007 I drove a new-baby bunch round and round Casuarina, the new estate next to Kingscliff, for twenty minutes. The Navman had the address down as a paddock. Some Minmi streets are that new, so add the nearest cross street.

Anna's call: nothing heavily scented in a house where everyone's trying to sleep. The 3 Gerberas In A Vase have next to no scent and bring their own glass, so nobody has to go looking for a vase. In the coolest room in the house they'll give you about a week.

You've got the notice and a start time. Funeral flowers need two things in the notes: the venue, such as Pettigrew's chapel on Harris Street, Wallsend, or the North or East Chapel at Newcastle Memorial Park, Beresfield, and that start time. Order the day before a morning service; flowers for the house can follow a week later, once the casseroles stop arriving. Flowers don't say much, and they're still something you can do from anywhere. On the card: "So sorry. Thinking of you all."

Anna, on colour at a service

Bright colours suit a celebration of life: the Wreath With Mixed Colours on an easel looks like the person it's for. For a traditional service, the Gorgeous White Arrangement. Not sure which kind of service it is? White is the safe call at most of them.

Plenty of orders sit outside birthdays, babies and funerals: a new job, the neighbour who minded the dog, flowers for no reason at all, or thank-you flowers for a teacher at Minmi Public School, which has had teachers to thank since 1861 (send those to the school office with the teacher's name and class). Anna has one pick from our native flowers for nearly all of them, and it's been our bestseller across Australia since 2013.

The Australian Natives Bunch. A protea holds its head for about a week even in a warm room, the pincushion barely notices, and when they're done the brunia dries on a shelf for months.