Paget Flower Delivery Today

It's your brother's birthday, it's today, and all you know for sure is where he works. Put the business name and unit number in the notes, because a lot of Paget addresses are one unit among many. I learned to ask for the unit number in 2008, on Machinery Drive in Tweed Heads South, walking roses into the wrong shed in thongs while the whole workshop stopped to watch. Birthday flowers for him go down better at work than he'll admit.

Anna's call: an arrangement for a site office. A wrapped bunch left on a bench while somebody hunts for a vase is losing water the whole time, and the soft petals show it by afternoon. The Florists Choice Birthday Arrangement turns up in its own container and goes straight on the desk.

When someone at work loses a parent, the crew chips in and somebody gets handed the ordering. Flowers can go to them at work, or to the house if they've taken leave. For the service itself, at Mackay Funerals on Alfred Street or City Funerals on Sydney Street, put the deceased's name and the service time in the notes, and in our experience the funeral director takes the funeral flowers in. Flowers won't fix anything. People remember who sent them anyway. On the card: "From all of us at work. Thinking of you."

Anna, on what a crew sends

A sheath, the long flat spray laid on the casket, reads as one gift from a lot of hands. In whites and creams, from the wreaths and sheaths, it sits quietly beside whatever the family chose.

A thank-you for the office manager, a well done on a promotion, a welcome back after time off. Thank-you flowers and celebration flowers land best on a weekday, with someone at reception to take them. In our experience plenty of sites run strict alcohol rules, so keep the Bright Bunch & White Wine for the house.

Size the flowers to what happened. Covering a week of shifts wants something compact, and a farewell after a long career earns the big arrangement. On a cluttered desk keep it low, flowers about one and a half times the height of the container, or the first elbow that reaches past it tips it over.

Half the time all you know is the flowers are going to their work. Anna has a view on this.

Send the Blissful Botanics Arrangement: white roses and green spider chrysanthemums, low, in a metal cube of wet foam. It looks smart whoever opens it. Foam that dries out starves the roses first, so a splash of water in the corner every couple of days keeps them standing up.