Same Day Flower Delivery Noosa Heads, Holiday Rush Included

Your parents are up for their fortieth, or your sister has finally taken the Noosa week she's been talking about for years, and the anniversary lands right in the middle of it (of course it does). If it's a resort, the resort's name and their room number go on the order; if it's a holiday house, the street number and a mobile, because nobody on holiday is sitting inside waiting for a knock. From what our florists tell us, the front desk tends to hold flowers while guests are down at the beach. Our anniversary flowers and the romance range are the places to start.

Holiday traffic is the other thing, and Andrew found that out on foot. Just after Christmas in 2008 he had anniversary roses for a couple at Rae's on Wategos in Byron Bay, with the road down to Wategos nose to tail for the sunset. He parked at the top of the hill (legally, he insists), walked down in his work shoes in the thirties, and reached reception about the colour of the roses. The woman on the desk gave him a glass of water before she took them. Hastings Street in the Christmas holidays is much the same story, which is why Andrew goes on about morning orders further down this page.

Anna's rule: the roses belong inside. Salt on the sea breeze settles on a petal and draws the moisture out of it, and on a balcony table the edges go papery within a couple of days.

Mum sold the family house and moved to Noosa years ago, and now her birthday happens without the rest of you. It's lovely that she's so happy up there, and it's still a long way to send a birthday. Put her mobile in the notes in case she's out when the florist knocks (retirement in Noosa seems to involve a lot of being out). If she's moved into Ozcare's home on Cooyar Street, add her full name, since reception tends to take flowers in and a carer carries them through to her room. Start with birthday flowers for Mum, or the 70th birthday range if it's a big one.

For a room in care, send an arrangement. It sits in floral foam, the green block florists soak like a sponge, so nobody has to hunt for a vase. A squirt of water into the foam from a drink bottle every couple of days keeps it looking good long after the cake has gone.

Someone you love is in hospital, and the ward number came by text from someone who wasn't quite sure of it either. Noosa Heads doesn't have a hospital of its own; the nearest is Noosa Hospital on Goodchap Street in Noosaville, where public patients usually share a room. Put their full name, the ward and the room on the order. The flowers tend to go to the ward desk first, and a nurse takes them in. If they're already home, send them to the house, where there's more room for them anyway. Get well flowers suit either, and our hospital flowers are sized for a bedside. For the card, something like "Rest up. We'll visit when you're home." is plenty.

Anna, on a room with two beds in it

In a shared room the scent belongs to everybody, and an oriental lily fills a small room overnight. Gerberas, chrysanthemums and most modern roses carry very little scent and look just as generous. Orientals are glorious at home, where the perfume is the whole point; for a ward, ask in the notes for pollen-free Asiatic lilies, which have no anthers and barely any scent.

Some orders fit no card: a new job, a thank you to the neighbours who watered the garden, a Tuesday. Anna had one answer for these, and it's our native flowers.

Banksia grows wild on the Noosa headland, and the rest of a native bunch, leucadendron, protea and a bit of gum, is just as tough: woody stems, leathery leaves, no fuss about the heat. A leucadendron goes a fortnight to four weeks with fresh water every couple of days, and when the softer flowers finish, the woody heads dry where they stand. In a beach town, natives look like they belong.