Same Day Flower Delivery Upper Lockyer, Below the Range

The birthday is today, and on a block this size they could be anywhere. Working in Toowoomba or Gatton? Send the birthday flowers to work. Home? Put a mobile in the notes, and how to find the house from the road.

I learnt that in 2008 at Upper Crystal Creek, out past Murwillumbah, with a bunch from our shop on Marine Parade. Letterbox on the road, gate shut, no house in sight, no mobile on the order. I stood there holding gerberas until the birthday girl rode over on the ride-on to see what the lost man wanted. Fair question. Upper Lockyer is the same sort of country.

Anna's pick: an arrangement, when nobody's waiting at the door. Wet foam holds water around every stem, so an hour on a shaded verandah costs it nothing. The Florists Choice Birthday Arrangement is built that way.

Someone has died, and the notice says a service in Gatton, a burial at Murphys Creek, or both. Funeral flowers go to the director, Gatton Funerals on Crescent Street or Burstows on Cochrane Street, who in our experience take them on from there. Sympathy flowers for the home can wait until the visitors thin out. On the card, "So sorry. Thinking of you all." is plenty.

A wreath is a poor stand-in for being there. It's also the one thing at the graveside with your name on it.

At a graveside, go a sheath or a wreath. A sheath is a spray of stems tied flat to lie on a casket lid, a wreath is built on a ring, and both sit on the turf where a vase tips over in the first gust. The White Funeral Wreath is made for it.

Someone from out here is in hospital, a drive in either direction. In for a few days? Send hospital flowers to St Vincent's on Scott Street, Toowoomba Hospital on Pechey Street or Gatton Hospital on William Street. Home tomorrow? Send get well flowers to the house.

Flowers tend to stop at the ward desk, so the full name, the hospital and the ward in the notes are what get them to the bed. "Rest up. The paddocks can wait." suits most cards.

Anna, on a bedside cabinet

Keep it low and compact; a bedside cabinet already holds a water jug and a phone. Gerberas and chrysanthemums carry no scent to bother the next bed. The Blissful Botanics Arrangement is about the right size and needs no vase.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: thank-you flowers for the neighbour who kept an eye on the place, an anniversary, a new house, or just because.

Anna's call: the Rose, Gerbera & Lilies Bunch. Three flowers that peak at different times, so it keeps changing in the vase. The roses and gerberas lead early, then the lily buds open one after another behind them, which in my experience carries it well into a second week.