Same Day Flower Delivery to Reid ACT, St John's or Home

You have the street off a text and no idea if it's a cottage or a third-floor unit.

A cottage needs the house number and their mobile. A unit needs the building name and unit number too, or the order stops at a locked foyer. Not sure which? Their mobile in the notes covers both. For an 80th or any birthday, a boxed arrangement saves them finding a vase.

Anna's take: if you'd rather send a bunch, the stems want a fresh cut at about forty-five degrees before they go in water. Cut them flat and they sit on the bottom of the vase and seal, and the heads are drooping by the next morning.

The notice says St John's, Reid, and you're sending flowers from somewhere else.

A sheath or wreath goes to the service, a softer arrangement to the family at home afterwards. "Thinking of you all, with love" is enough on the card.

Name the church and the service time in the notes. In 2008 I walked a white sheath into St Cuthbert's on Powell Street, Tweed Heads, twenty minutes early. The service was at St Joseph's on Frances Street; our docket just said "St, Tweed Heads". I made it with four minutes spare. Reid has St John's on Constitution Avenue and the Canberra Korean Church on Coranderrk Street, so give the church's full name.

A sheath is built flat, the stems bound at one point and the blooms laid down from the top in a long teardrop, so it rests on a casket lid or a stand without a vase. The binding is what I always checked twice, because a loose tie lets the heads slide.

Forty-one per cent of Reid homes have one person living in them, and that person may be the one you ring on Sundays.

At home, add their mobile, since nobody else will answer the door. At Goodwin House in Ainslie, the room number. On a ward at North Canberra Hospital in Bruce, their full name and the ward. "Just thinking of you" is a whole card. Start with our thinking of you flowers, or get well flowers if they're in hospital or recovering at home.

Anna has a view on size.

A bedside table is usually shared with a water jug and a box of tissues, so small and front-facing beats tall. Oriental lilies fill a room, which is lovely at home and a lot on a shared ward.

A course finished at CIT Reid, a thank-you to the neighbour who fed the cat, or no reason at all. None of those needs a category.

Anna's pick

The Blue Mist Arrangement. Blue and white is the safest palette I know for someone you can't read, at a home or on a desk: white roses, Oriental lilies and blue delphinium in a mirrored cube with its own foam. Keep it in a different room from the fruit bowl. Delphinium reads the gas off ripening fruit and can drop every floret at once.