Flowers Delivered to Racecourse QLD

It's their birthday and you're nowhere near. Through the crush (the cane harvest, from around June to the end of the year) the mill runs around the clock, so if they're on nights, say so in the notes and nobody leans on the doorbell at ten in the morning. Sending to a workmate at the mill? Give the office or department, and a mobile.

I learnt that one the hard way. Magic Millions day, January 2008, I wrote "the racecourse" on the docket for a birthday bunch going to the Gold Coast Turf Club on Racecourse Drive at Bundall, and nothing else. Andrew got sent from gate to gate until a lady in catering took the bunch through for him. The mill is a much bigger site than a racecourse, so put more in the notes than I did.

If natives aren't their thing, the 2 Lily Stems In Glass Vase arrive already drinking, and the buds open one after another over the week. Pinch the orange anthers as each flower opens; dry pollen bonds to a shirt for good.

The funeral notice says the service is in Mackay. Flowers for the service go to the funeral home; flowers for the family go to the house, often a week later. For Whitsunday Funerals on Shakespeare Street or Mackay Funerals on Alfred Street, put the name of the person who has died and the service time in the notes. "Thinking of you all, with love" is enough on the card. Flowers can't do much against the week that family is having, and they still notice who sent them.

Anna, on the service and the house

Whites and creams sit easiest at a service, and a funeral wreath or sheath can lie flat on a coffin or a grave, where a vase would tip. For the house, chrysanthemums: about ten days in a warm room, often more. Start with the sympathy flowers for home.

A ward number off a text, or they're home with a leg up. Mackay Base Hospital on Bridge Road is the nearest public hospital; the Mater on Willetts Road, North Mackay, is private, so say which, with the patient's full name and ward. In our experience the ward desk takes the flowers in. "Rest up, see you when you're out" does the job. More in our get well flowers.

Anna's call: boxed, like the Bright Arrangement With Chocolates. The foam holds the water and the box is the vase. In a shared room, skip heavy perfume; the next bed didn't ask for it. Start with the hospital flowers.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: a thank-you to the neighbour who fed the dog, a new job, a well done. When nobody's sure, Anna has a pick that suits a kitchen bench or a desk.

For a bench or a desk, the Blue Mist Arrangement: white roses, lilies and blue delphinium in a mirrored cube, the water held in the foam. Nothing to unwrap, nothing to find. Keep it away from the fruit bowl, at home or at smoko. Ripening fruit gives off ethylene, and delphinium answers by dropping every floret at once.