Flower Delivery Newtown Today

It's their birthday and they could be at home, at work or somewhere between. Send to wherever they'll be at lunchtime. For a shop, cafe or bar, put the business name in the notes and check they're rostered on. For a share house, add their mobile, because a housemate may answer the door. Our birthday flowers for a friend and the bestselling birthday range can go same day.

I learnt the roster part in 2008. Van double-parked on Griffith Street in Coolangatta, me in a surf shop holding three red roses, birthday girl at home on her day off. Her manager signed for them. They were not a secret by morning.

A counter is a tight spot, and that's where gerberas earn their keep: one big flat head of colour on a single stem. The stem is hollow, a scape in the trade, and bacteria clog it fast until the head folds at the neck. Clean water every day or two keeps it standing. The 3 Wrapped Gerberas fit beside a till without getting in anyone's way.

They got the job, finished the degree, or it's a show night for a kid at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts on King Street. Whatever the news, send to the house earlier in the day. For a show night that matters most: flowers left at a venue can wait for hours with nobody to put them in water, while a bunch at home is there when they walk back in. Our celebration flowers and graduation flowers both go same day.

Anna, on sizing a well done

Match the flowers to the news: a first job and a doctorate are different bunches. For a performer I'd go bright and already in its own vase, so it can go straight onto whatever surface is clear when they get home at midnight, without anybody hunting for a jug.

You have the notice, a service time and a family you'd like to reach before it starts. For a service at St Stephen's on Church Street, a wreath or sheath goes to the church with the surname and service time in the notes, so the florist can have it there ahead of the family. If the service is tomorrow or later in the week, pick that date at checkout; our funeral flowers go out on the date you choose. For a farewell somewhere else, name the venue the same way. Afterwards, sympathy flowers for the home are often the kinder gift. A card line that works: Thinking of you all, and so sorry I can't be there.

Anna's call: in my experience Anglican services lean white, and a White Lily & Rose Sheath lies flat on the casket, then goes home with the family. Where the family has asked for colour, the Orange Flower Sheath or the Wreath With Mixed Colours sits right among bright tributes.

You know the person well and their taste in flowers not at all. Anna has a pick that suits most people and most reasons for sending.

The Blissful Botanics Bunch: white roses, lime-green chrysanthemums, white lisianthus, a collar of dark glossy leaves. Green and white reads right for a birthday, a thank you or a loss, and sits as well on an op-shop sideboard as in a bare white flat. Chrysanthemums carry a servo-bunch reputation, and those lime-green ones are the reason it's unfair: the roses give about a week, and the chrysanthemums keep going well past them.