Same Day Flower Delivery to Turner ACT, Even on Saturday

It's their birthday, they're at work till six, and home is one unit in a block of forty. Plenty of these blocks have an intercom and no front desk, so put the building name, unit number and their mobile in the notes, and the driver can ring them and agree where to leave it. If they'd rather have it at work, send it there instead. I learned why the unit number matters in 2007, carrying a birthday bunch into Q1 in Surfers Paradise with a first name and "top floor" on the docket. Q1 has a lot of top floors. The concierge and I rang four units before we found her. For a mate, start with our birthday flowers for a friend; for a brother or a partner, birthday flowers for him.

Anna's call: a bunch needs something tall with a narrow mouth to stand in. A wide salad bowl lets the stems splay and flop over the edge by the next morning. In a share flat that's usually a water jug, and if they own nothing taller than a mug, send an arrangement instead. It stands up on its own.

Someone's in hospital, or just home from it, and all you have is a ward number off a text. For North Canberra Hospital in Bruce or Canberra Hospital in Garran, put their full name and the ward in the notes. In our experience, flowers stop at reception and staff take them up. Our hospital flowers suit the ward, our get well flowers the couch. On the card, "Thinking of you, see you when you're out" is all it needs.

Anna, on a shared room

Gerberas and chrysanthemums for a shared ward: lots of colour and next to no scent. An oriental lily fills a whole room with scent, which is lovely at home and a lot in a shared room, so save lilies for when they're out. And send the flowers in a box or a vase, because a ward has no spare vases or scissors.

Someone has died and the service is this week, maybe at North Canberra Baptist on Condamine Street, maybe at Norwood Park in Mitchell. Funeral flowers go to the venue with the service time and the name of the person who died in the notes. Sympathy flowers for the home can follow once the visitors stop. Flowers don't do much against a death. People keep the card anyway. "Thinking of you all" is enough.

White, cream and soft green sit quietly at a service, where bright colour can read as loud. If the service follows a tradition you don't know, ask the funeral director about colour before you order, because the colour rules aren't the same in every tradition.

Some orders don't fit a heading: a graduation from ANU next door, a thank-you, a new job, a bit of romance, or no reason at all. Anna has a default for all of them.

The Simply Stylish With Chocolates & Vase. It turns up in its own vase, so it works on any bench, and the chocolates cover the friend who isn't a flower person. Top the water up when it drops below the cut ends, or the stems take in air and the heads droop.