Same Day Flower Delivery O'Connor ACT

You've remembered the birthday, they're at work all day, and the house is empty until six. Send the flowers to the office if you know the address. If it has to be the house, name a shady spot in the notes: the side gate, the porch behind the hedge. A 30th gets the same notes.

Anna's pick: the 3 Gerberas In A Vase. They arrive standing in water, so nothing waits in its wrap for whoever gets home first. Give the vase a turn when you see them lean.

All you've got is a ward name off a text message. North Canberra Hospital, next door in Bruce, is the nearest public hospital. From what our florists have seen, hospital flowers are logged at the ward desk and carried in when someone's free. Put their full name and ward in the notes. If they're being discharged tomorrow, send the flowers to the house instead. On the card: "Hope you're home soon. Love from all of us."

Anna, on a crowded bedside table

Nobody on a ward has a spare vase, so send flowers that arrive in one, like the Simply Stylish With Chocolates & Vase. Keep the scent light. An Oriental lily fills a shared room, and the next bed didn't ask for it.

You've got the notice, the church and a start time, and you won't be in the pew. Funeral flowers go to the church; sympathy flowers go to the family's house a few days later, once the visitors thin out.

In 2007 I took a white sheath to St Joseph's on Wharf Street in Tweed Heads, arrived early, felt very organised, and parked in the space the funeral director had kept for the hearse. A man in a black suit moved me on, politely, with forty years of practice at politely. Funerals run to the minute and the hearse gets the kerb, so service flowers need to arrive early and at the right door. O'Connor's St Joseph's is on Boronia Drive, and so is St Joseph's Primary. Write St Joseph's Church, the service time and the family name in the notes. On the card, "Thinking of you all" is enough.

For the service itself, choose something that lies flat or stands on an easel. A wreath like the Wreath With White & Purple Tones usually goes on an easel at the front of the church, and a tall vase on a coffin is one bump from tipping over.

A neighbour fed the cat for a fortnight. Someone finished their exams up the road at the ANU. Or there's no reason at all. Celebration flowers cover the results; just because flowers cover the neighbour and everything else.

Anna has a view on this one.

With nothing to match, let the florist pick. The Florist's Choice Bunch gets built around whatever looked best in the cool room that morning, and with no theme to hit, there's room for some personality in it.