Same Day Flower Delivery Ninderry, House, Ward or Chapel

You might only know the house from photos: a few acres back off the road, the number on a post at the gate. Our birthday flowers, the Birthday Package Special included, can reach Ninderry the same day. Use the notes to say whether a car gets up the drive, and where to leave them if nobody's home.

About those leeches. In 2008 I took a birthday bunch from our Marine Parade shop to a house off Long Road on Tamborine Mountain, just after a run of storms. The car wasn't going up that track, so I walked it, in shop sandals (mistake number one). She loved the lilies. Neither of us loved the leech on my ankle.

If it might wait on a verandah, send the Australian Natives Bunch. Protea and leucadendron have leathery heads that hold their water, and damp air doesn't bother them.

Someone's in hospital, or home again and sick of the ceiling. For a ward, put the hospital, the ward and their full name in the notes; in our experience the flowers go to the ward desk and the staff take them in (Andrew and I carried plenty into John Flynn and Tweed Hospital in the shop years). Our get well flowers go to the house just as easily, and there's more on sending flowers to hospital if you need it. A card that works: "Rest up. The garden can wait."

Anna's call: the Blue Mist Arrangement arrives standing in its own water, so nobody on the ward hunts for a vase. If it's in foam, top it up every couple of days; a sports bottle does it without a mess.

There's a funeral on, and you want flowers there from you. Funeral flowers go to the funeral director with the name and the service time, so they're in place before anyone arrives; for a graveside at Yandina Cemetery on Cordwell Road, say so when you order. Sympathy flowers for the house can follow once the visitors thin out. It's the least you can do and the most you can do from where you are, both at once. A card that works: "Thinking of you all, with love."

Anna, on a wreath or a sheath

A sheath is a long spray with the stems bound and hidden, and a wreath is built on a ring of wet foam. Both are made to lie flat and look right from above, which is why the Wreath With White & Purple Tones suits a casket or the grass. For the house, go a vase arrangement like the Gorgeous White Arrangement. A grieving house doesn't go looking for scissors.

Plenty of orders fit no heading: a new job, thanks for minding the dog, a friend having a rotten month (that last one is what our thinking of you flowers are for).

Anna's pick: the Rose, Gerbera & Lilies Bunch. Three kinds of flower means it suits nearly anyone, and all three hold up in humid weather once they're out of the wrap.