Same Day Flower Delivery Pacific Paradise

You are sending a birthday to someone you cannot reach on the day, so what matters is that someone is there when it lands.

For a room at Estia Health, put the resident's name and room number in the notes and, in our experience, reception takes it from there. For a house, say whether a neighbour can sign. The Florists Choice Birthday Arrangement suits either, and the 90th birthday flowers range has more.

I learned to trust the front desk in 2008, carrying an eighty-eighth birthday arrangement from our Marine Parade shop in Kingscliff to a nursing home on Florence Place in Tweed Heads. She was out on the Tuesday bus to the Twin Towns Services Club, back at three. The desk offered to hold it. I said I would wait, and sat on the front steps for forty minutes holding gerberas like a man who had been stood up. She stepped off the bus, took them, and told me I was the third nice surprise of her afternoon.

Anna's call: an arrangement sits in its own wet foam, so it can wait at a front desk for hours and still look right when she walks in.

Someone you care about is recovering and you cannot get there to visit.

In hospital, put the ward and bed number in the notes; in our experience reception logs the flowers and staff take them in once the patient is free. At home, it goes to the house. See get well flowers or hospital flowers. A card can say, "Take it slow. Thinking of you every day."

Gerbera carries next to no scent, so it never argues with the next bed, and three stems in their own vase, like the 3 Gerberas In A Vase, fit a tray table without anyone hunting for a jug.

There is a notice in your hand and you are working out what to send before the service.

For a funeral, give the funeral director's name, the chapel and the service time; for the family home, the address. The funeral flowers range has the White Funeral Wreath and the Pink Rose Sheath. A card can say, "Thinking of you all today."

Anna, on a wreath and a sheath

A sheath lies flat, so it suits a coffin; a wreath needs an easel. Whites, creams and soft greens sit quietly, but check the family's tradition first, because white is not the safe colour in every one.

Some orders fit no occasion: a thank-you to a carer, or a neighbour who has had a fall.

Anna's pick: the Beautiful Pastels Bunch. Soft colours, nothing that shouts, and it sits happily on a lounge or kitchen table. More in pink flowers.