Same Day Flower Delivery Mons QLD, Home or the Ward

You know the house, you just aren't in it, and it's her 40th today. Send the flowers home today, or to her work if there's a front desk. Our best-selling birthday flowers are the quick place to start.

Mons Road runs through both Mons and Buderim, and they share the 4556 postcode, so don't worry which suburb the address says. The street number and a mobile are what count. I learned that in 2007, driving the length of Cabarita Beach twice looking for Bogangar, until I rang Andrew at the shop and he found the street in the Gregory's in about ten seconds. Same place, two names, and I'd passed the house both times.

Anna's tip: leave the tie on a hand-tied bunch. The stems are spiralled around that one point, so it stands up in a jug until the good vase turns up.

You've read the notice twice and you can't be there. Flowers can go out today either way. For the service, they go through the funeral director, so put the director's name and the service time in the notes. For the family, they go to the house, on the day or once it has gone quiet.

On the card, "Thinking of you all" is enough. Four words feel like nothing to write, and they're often the part that gets kept.

Anna, on flowers for the service

Whites and creams sit quietly among the other tributes. A sheath, a spray of stems tied flat, lies still on a casket where a vase would tip.

They've had the operation, or they're waiting on news, and you're not the one sitting by the bed. If they're coming home in a day or two, send get well flowers to the house. If they're staying in, name the hospital, the ward and their full name in the notes: Buderim Private on Elsa Wilson Drive, or Sunshine Coast University Hospital at Birtinya. In our experience hospital flowers go to the ward desk and the staff take them in. On the card, "Thinking of you" covers a knee operation and a long stay alike.

Hospital air is dry and the rooms are small. Chrysanthemums and carnations don't mind dry air one bit, and in a shared room skip anything heavily scented, so the next bed isn't living with it too.

Some orders don't fit a heading: a new baby down the road, a thank-you for a teacher (Sunshine Coast Grammar is on Mons Road, and in our experience the front office gets them to the staffroom with the teacher's full name), or the neighbour who fed the dog. When nobody's sure, we'd send the Australian Natives Bunch. Natives are what we send most of, and they don't need an occasion to make sense.

Anna on why they last: split the woody stems a few centimetres up from the base so they can drink, and leucadendron, when it's in the mix, often goes a fortnight.