Pascoe Vale South Flower Delivery Today, Home or Care

Dad is at the Dorothy Impey Home for two weeks' respite while Mum has her hip done, and he is not thrilled about it.

Respite and permanent rooms are in the same home on O'Hea Street, so say it is respite, with his full name and room. Send early in the stay rather than near the end, so he gets the good of the flowers before he goes home. Our thinking-of-you flowers and native flowers suit, with “Two weeks, Dad. Mum says behave.”

Anna, on a short stay

Natives and carnations travel home in the car at the end of a fortnight looking much as they arrived.

Your nephew is finishing Year 12 at Antonine College's Saint Joseph Campus, and the family is making a fuss, rightly.

Send to the house rather than the school on the last day, when in our experience the office is at its busiest, and give his name and a mobile. For a teacher at Antonine or at Pascoe Vale South Primary on Reynard Street, the school office works, with the teacher's full name. Our graduation flowers and thank-you flowers cover both.

Anna's pick: something bright and sturdy, sunflowers or gerberas, which a seventeen-year-old will at least put in water.

Your godmother's name day is coming up, and in her family it is a bigger day than her birthday.

Greek and Italian families make up about a third of Pascoe Vale South by ancestry, and in many of them a name day, the feast of the saint you are named after, is a day for visitors and gifts. Check the date with the family, since it follows the church calendar. Our roses and orange flowers suit, with “Chronia polla!” for a Greek name day or “Buon onomastico!” for an Italian one.

Roses with plenty of green are right for it, and the white chrysanthemums can stay at the florist.

A cousin has had a hard month, and you would like to send something cheerful without making a speech of it.

Anna's pick: our yellow flowers. Yellow lifts a room without saying anything in particular, which is often exactly the point.