Same Day Flower Delivery to Spence ACT, Ward or Chapel Too

Mum's turning ninety and she's been in the same Spence house since the seventies, which, out here, isn't unusual at all. If she's moved to RFBI Holt Masonic Village on Hardwick Crescent, put her room number in the notes. If she's still at home, flag it if she might miss a knock. I learned that in 2008 off Darlington Drive in Banora Point, knocking three times before I found the birthday girl out the back, pruning her roses. She hadn't heard a thing.

Anna's call: for a ninetieth, something that arrives in its own vase or box, low enough for the coffee table. A tall bunch in a borrowed jug is the one that gets knocked over.

A new grandchild, and you're looking at the first photo on your phone from another city. Hospital or home, both are fine. At North Canberra Hospital in Bruce or the Centenary Hospital in Garran, hospital flowers tend to go to the maternity ward desk, so the ward and the new mum's full name do the work. Once they're home, a knock can wake a baby who took an hour to settle, so say if the flowers should be left at the door. On the card: Welcome, little one. Sleep when you can.

Keep the scent soft for a newborn, because a shared room fills fast. Roses and gerberas carry very little. Oriental lilies can wait for the lounge room later.

You've read the notice twice and said you'd sort the flowers. For the Norwood Park chapel in Mitchell or a burial at Gungahlin Cemetery, put the service time in the notes so the funeral flowers get there before the mourners do. For the family, sympathy flowers to the house a few days later. If the family is Muslim and the funeral prayer is at the Islamic Society of Belconnen on Crofts Crescent, in our experience flowers don't go to the mosque. A simple white arrangement to the home afterwards is the way, once the family has said flowers are welcome. On the card: Thinking of you all, with love.

Anna, on white

White suits a chapel and most faiths, though not a Hindu family, so ask if you're unsure. Out of the sun it stays crisp the longest, too.

Plenty of what we send fits no category at all, and the card says more than the flowers do. Anna has a default for those orders.

The Australian Native Arrangement. It's built in wet foam inside its own box, so there's no vase to find, and the protea can go two weeks or more. Protea is a heavy drinker, so top the foam up with water every couple of days.