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Forty years, or twenty, or the first one since they sold up down south and bought on the canal, and you won't be at the table for it. Send the anniversary flowers to the house, where they'll be waiting when the two of them get home, and put a mobile in the notes, because two people out the back by the water don't always hear the front door.

It's the glass that gets people, though. In 2007 Andrew took an anniversary arrangement from our Marine Parade shop to a canal house on the Isle of Capri, down on the Gold Coast, and the husband said to bring it through to the deck. Andrew walked straight into the sliding door (spotless, completely shut, he'd have sworn it was open). The flowers survived, which is more than you could say for his nose, and by his account the wife laughed so hard she had to sit down. Minyama houses are built the same way, all glass on the water side, and that matters for more than Andrew's face.

Anna's call: red flowers for an anniversary, on the table back from that glass. A dozen roses in one vase drink hard, so top the water up every day. Leave it and the water clouds by the second day, the bacteria coat the cut ends, and the heads start to bow.

Someone has texted you a ward number, and maybe it's a new knee and maybe nobody's saying much yet. You don't need the diagnosis to send get well flowers. If they're still in, Sunshine Coast University Hospital and the private hospital beside it share Doherty Street in Birtinya, so name the right one, with their full name and the ward. If they're already home, send it there, where there's a vase and a proper table.

In our experience hospital flowers stop at reception first and the staff take them up, sometimes a few hours later, which is normal. For the card, "Thinking of you, hope you're home soon" does the job. Flowers won't mend the knee. They'll still be sitting there when the visitors have gone home.

A ward bed has no vase and nowhere to put one, so go for hospital flowers built in a box. The wet foam inside holds water like a sponge, and the whole thing sits on a tray table without asking anything of the nurses. Keep the scent soft if the room is shared. An oriental lily that's lovely in a lounge room fills a four-bed ward, and the next bed didn't order it.

He moved up the coast for the water and the quiet, he says he doesn't need a thing for his birthday, and he means it. Flowers for a man feel a bit odd to plenty of people, right up until the photo comes through of him grinning next to them (and then Mum claims the vase anyway, which is fine). Birthday flowers for him lean on strong shapes and deeper colours, and if it's his sixtieth, book the 60th birthday flowers ahead for the day itself.

Anna, on flowers for a bloke

Go for native flowers. Protea, banksia and leucadendron have tough leaves that don't mind the air off the canal, and they look like they belong on a deck. The stems are dense, so a clean cut isn't enough. Split the base up a few centimetres, or crush it gently, so the stem can actually drink. Skip that and the protea heads droop long before they should.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading, like a thank-you to the neighbour who kept an eye on the house, or hello to a sister you haven't rung in a while. You don't need a category to send something. Anna always had a soft spot for this one.

Florist's Choice was always my favourite to build. I worked from whatever came in best at the market that morning, so every stem was at its peak and nothing had sat in the cooler waiting for an order to suit it. You set the budget, and that's the whole brief.