Parklands Flower Delivery, Same Day to Acreage or Club

An anniversary at a house on acreage has no audience. No reception desk, no colleagues, nobody to watch them arrive except the two people it is for.

Between 2006 and 2009 Siobhan and I ran our own deliveries across the Gold Coast, the Tweed and Byron. John Flynn, Tweed Hospital, Byron Bay Hospital, nursing homes, churches, and a lot of rural blocks behind the coast. They taught us what applies here: the number is on the road and the house is not, so the florist rings before the turn.

Anna's call: roses hold beautifully in a cool room out of the afternoon sun, and a bush block has more of those rooms than a townhouse does. Same for anything in love and romance.

They are home with a newborn and the place is already full of things that need attention. Hospital or home, and before or after they leave is fine.

In the years we took the orders ourselves, the new baby deliveries that landed best asked nothing of anyone. No vase to find, no scissors, no water to change.

Nothing that sheds, and keep the scent light in a room that size. Nobody is changing vase water this month.

You said the wrong thing and you know it. Send it home rather than to the workplace. An audience turns an apology into a performance.

We never print the price on the card. Keep the message short. A paragraph reads like an argument you are still having, and apology flowers are meant to end one.

Anna, on getting the size right

Classic stems, substantial without being extravagant. Too big reads as buying forgiveness and too small as an afterthought.

Plenty of what we send fits none of the three above. A promotion, an exam, a rough week, or no reason at all. Anna has a view.

Ask for natives. Banksia and protea stems are dense, and a clean cut alone will not let them drink, so the base gets split a few centimetres. Done properly they run a fortnight, and the banksia cones dry on the shelf long after the soft stems have gone.