Same Day Flower Delivery North Maleny, Long Driveways Too

They've booked a couple of nights by Lake Baroon for an anniversary or a birthday, and you'd like something there when they walk in, or at the door on the morning itself.

Places round the lake give their address as either North Maleny or Montville (Secrets on the Lake on Narrows Road uses Montville). Either works, because the florist goes by the street address. The notes need the booking name, the cabin or treehouse, and whether it's a surprise in the room or straight into their hands. For an anniversary, our romance flowers are worth a look too.

I learned to ask "where exactly" in 2008, taking anniversary roses from our Marine Parade shop up Booka Road to Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat, behind Murwillumbah. The office said they'd pop them in the villa. At five the husband, who'd ordered them, rang the shop: no roses. They were in the villa all right, standing in the spa bath, the only thing in there deep enough to hold them. His wife found them when she went to run it. He said it was the best surprise of the weekend and he'd had nothing to do with it. The cabins round Lake Baroon are the same kind of place, so say in the notes exactly where you want them.

Anna had a view on this one. For a room like that I put together something low and wide, a box or a bowl, because it gets looked at from the bed, the couch and the deck. A tall vase blocks the view out the window, and on a little cabin table it's the first thing a bag knocks over.

It's Mum's 80th, she's in care at Respect Maleny Erowal on Landsborough Road, and you're ordering from Brisbane or further.

Put her name and room number in the notes. In our experience flowers for residents reach the front desk first, and the room number is what gets them from the desk to her bedside. She'll usually have one bedside table and a windowsill, so pick something compact from our birthday flowers.

Chrysanthemums and carnations are the ones that go the distance in a care room. Their petals are tough enough to shrug off the dry air from a heater or an air conditioner, and carnation buds keep opening into the second week, so the vase on day ten looks different from the one on day one. Out of the sun, two weeks and more is normal.

Someone has died, the family is at home on the property, and you can't be there.

Chapel flowers tend to go through the funeral director. Sympathy flowers for the home land in a week when everyone is in and out, so a mobile number in the notes matters more than the time of day. Flowers don't do much against a death. People still keep the card. If the words won't come, "Thinking of you all. No need to reply." is plenty.

Anna, on colour for a house in mourning

White and cream never look wrong in a house in mourning. They sit quietly in any room. But colour at a farewell should sound like the person. For a family who'd rather see the bush than a lily, native sympathy flowers say more about the person, and the leucadendron in them often lasts three weeks or more.

Some orders fit none of the above: the neighbour who fed the chooks, a friend who's had a rough winter, someone who's just moved out of the city onto a few acres.

Anna's pick: an arrangement in soft pinks and creams, set in a box. Soft colours suit almost anyone, which matters when you don't know their taste. It rides the winding roads without slopping and asks only for fresh water. Every few days, draw the old water out of the foam with a baster and squeeze new in, because water left sitting in foam goes stale and rots the stems from the base. Start with our flower arrangements.