Same Day Flower Delivery Mount Pleasant

The birthday is today and you're a long way from Mackay. Most birthday flowers sent to Mount Pleasant go to a house. Some go to Carlyle Gardens on Phillip Street, a retirement village of separate homes over about forty acres, so the house number and a mobile go in the notes. For a parent there, think milestones: 70th birthday flowers, or birthday flowers for Mum.

Reds and purples are the birthday colours that need minding. Keep them off a west-facing windowsill: afternoon sun breaks down the pigment behind both colours, and a deep red goes pink inside two days. Out of the sun, they hold their colour.

Someone's doing rehab at Mackay Private Hospital, a stay usually counted in weeks, so get well flowers can go to the ward now, or to the house once they're home. Boxed flower arrangements suit the ward, because a ward rarely has a spare vase. For the hospital, put two details in the notes: their full name and the ward. In our experience the flowers stop at the desk and staff walk them in. In 2008 I carried flowers in their own vase into the old Byron Bay Hospital every Friday for a month, same patient, same sender. By the third Friday the desk had cleared a spot before I'd said her name. Different hospital, same thing: on a long stay, the desk gets to know the flowers. Card idea: "Keep at it. We're cheering from here."

Anna's call: the Native Arrangement With Chocolates. It's built in a small silver cube of foam that fits a bedside table. The leucadendron in it can go a fortnight in a warm room, in my experience, and when it's done in the foam, it dries on a shelf for months.

There's a funeral notice with a time on it, and you won't be there. Send funeral flowers to the funeral director, Mackay Funerals on Alfred Street or City Funerals on Sydney Street, say, with the full name of the person who has died and the start time in the notes, or send sympathy flowers to the home afterwards. Flowers won't change the family's week. They'll still remember who sent them. Card idea: "Thinking of you all. With love."

Anna, on a sheath for the casket

A sheath lies flat on the casket with no vase to tip. Families often take it home afterwards, and in the White Lily & Rose Sheath the closed lily buds keep opening there for a week.

Plenty of orders fit no heading: a thank-you for a teacher at Holy Spirit College, a new job, a mate who's had a rough month. Anna has a pick for those, or you can browse our flower bunches.

The Gorgeous Whites Bunch. White roses with green trick, a dianthus that grows fuzzy green balls instead of petals and holds about ten days, as long as a chrysanthemum, so the bunch keeps going after the roses have had their week. White and green suits every one of those.