Same Day Flower Delivery Mudjimba, Holiday Park Cabins Too

It's their birthday and you're a long drive away, or a flight. The flowers can still get there today.

At a house or unit, put a mobile in the notes. On a warm day plenty of people are on the sand (I would be), and a mobile means the florist can ring first instead of leaving anything on a hot step. If nobody's sure to be home, an arrangement like the Florists Choice Birthday Arrangement is the safer pick, and if it's Mum's birthday, our birthday flowers for Mum are a good place to start.

From Anna: most arrangements sit in wet foam and carry their own water, so a short wait inside the screen door won't bother them. A hand-tied bunch wants a vase within the hour.

Someone has died, and the notice names a place you may never have been. Our funeral flowers go to the service, and sympathy flowers for the home, such as the Florists Choice Sympathy Bunch, go to the family.

One Friday in 2008 I carried a white wreath (heavy, very proper) up the stairs at the Cudgen Headland Surf Club, along Marine Parade from our Kingscliff shop, for the wake of a man who'd been a clubbie most of his life. The room was all board shorts and club caps, which is how the family wanted him farewelled, and my wreath looked like it had come to the wrong party. A wreath is a small thing against a whole life, and I was still glad to be the one carrying it.

Mudjimba has its own surf club too, and goodbyes in a beach suburb aren't always in a chapel. If the family is gathering at a club or a hall, put the venue and the start time in the notes, and for a celebration of life, colour is welcome; the Orange Flower Sheath suits that kind of room. On the card, "With love to you all today" is enough.

Anna, on sheath or wreath

A wreath stays at the venue on its stand. A sheath lies flat, needs no vase, and goes home with the family afterwards.

Someone's unwell, and all you have is a ward name from the family group chat, or news that they're home and resting. If they're home, treat it like a birthday, with the address and a mobile in the notes.

If they're still in Sunshine Coast University Hospital in Birtinya, give their full name and the ward; the ward desk generally takes the flowers in from there. Intensive care tends not to accept them, so send those to the house for the day they come home. Try hospital flowers or get well flowers, and keep the card short: "Thinking of you. Rest up."

Nobody on a ward goes hunting for a vase, and a bunch left lying in its wrap on a tray table dries from the cut end while it waits. Send one that brings its own: Blue Mist Including Vase & Chocolates is ready for the tray table the moment it arrives.

A thank-you to the neighbour who watched the house, an anniversary, a friend's rotten week. Our thank-you flowers and just because flowers cover most of it. Anna has a view on this.

The Australian Natives Bunch. Natives take the sea air in their stride, and most of the woody stems dry where they stand once the soft ones finish, so what's left keeps going on a shelf for months.