Flower Delivery Petersham NSW Today, Birthday or Sympathy

The birthday is today and they might be home or out to lunch. For an 80th birthday lunch at Petersham RSL on Regent Street, send it to the club with the host's name and a mobile in the notes. For a friend's birthday on a workday, the office is the safer address.

I learnt the host's-name rule at Twin Towns in Tweed Heads in 2007, walking an 80th birthday arrangement into a club with two 80ths on, both for a Joan. I handed it to the wrong one. She was thrilled.

At home, a wrapped bunch like the Australian Natives Bunch goes straight into a vase. On a function table it lies there drinking nothing until somebody finds it a jug, so for a club, send an arrangement that arrives in its own vase and has water from the minute it's set down.

You've got a text that says RPA and a ward number. If they're still in, hospital flowers go to RPA in Camperdown with their full name and ward in the notes, and in our experience the ward desk gets them to the bed. Home already? Send get well flowers to the house.

A card line: "Glad the worst bit's done. Ring me when you're up to it."

Anna, on bedside tables

Small, low and in its own vase: that's all a bedside table has room for once the water jug and tablets are on it. Go unscented in a shared ward so the next bed isn't living with your flowers too. The 3 Gerberas In A Vase tick both boxes.

There's a notice with a time and a church on it. For a service at All Saints on Stanmore Road, or any other church or chapel, funeral flowers go there before it starts, with the name and service time in the notes, and wreaths and sheaths are the ones made for the service itself. A few days later, sympathy flowers to the home, like the Gorgeous White Arrangement, reach the family once the visitors thin out.

For the card: "Thinking of you all, with love."

Anna's call: the White Lily & Rose Sheath lies flat on a casket with no vase or stand, and white reads clearly from the back pews.

Plenty of orders aren't a birthday, a ward or a funeral: the HSC finished at Fort Street High, a teacher leaving, a thank-you that's a month overdue. Celebration flowers suit the HSC, and thank-you flowers suit the teacher and the overdue thank-you.

Anna has a view on this one.

Send the Natives Flowers With A Vase. It turns up in its own vase, so nobody has to hunt for one, and native flowers hold their shape a long time if someone keeps the water topped up. People call natives rough. That roughness is half of why they get noticed.