Flower Delivery Verrierdale Today? Yes, Any Occasion

It's their birthday, and from the road their place is a letterbox and a gap in the trees. Birthday flowers can go to the house or to wherever the party is. For the house, describe the drive in the notes (gate colour, shed, dog) and add their mobile. I learned that in the Tweed hills in our shop years, turning round in more than one wrong paddock.

Anna's call: the Florists Choice Birthday Arrangement sits in wet foam, so it goes straight on the verandah table, no vase needed. The other flower arrangements work the same way.

Someone has died, and you're sorting flowers between a dozen other calls. Send them to the funeral, with the funeral director's name and the start time in the notes, or to the family's house in the days after. In our experience, flowers sent through the director are in place before the family arrives. Flowers don't fix a thing on a day like that. People keep the cards anyway. "Thinking of you all, with love" is enough.

A sheath like the White Lily & Rose Sheath is built flat on a wet base, to be carried in and laid down. For the house, the Gorgeous White Arrangement stands in its own foam, so there's no vase to find.

You've got a ward name off a text and not much else. The nearest hospitals are Noosa Hospital on Goodchap Street and Nambour General; put which one, the ward and their full name in the notes. From what our florists see, hospital flowers go to the ward desk and the staff carry them to the bed. For the card, "Rest up. See you when you're home." is plenty. Once they're out, get well flowers can go to the house.

Anna, on a ward table

The 3 Gerberas In A Vase come in their own vase, and a gerbera has no scent to bother the next bed.

Plenty of orders don't fit a card above: the neighbours who fed the horses, a welcome for whoever bought next door, a thank-you for the fire brigade.

That last one caught me out. In 2008 a woman rang our Marine Parade shop from her cane farm at Cudgen; the Cudgen Rural Fire Brigade had stopped a burn reaching her shed. I drove the flowers to the brigade shed. Locked. Volunteers, all at their day jobs. I sat outside a fire station for twenty minutes waiting for someone to turn up, which is not how fire stations work. The flowers went to the captain's house in the end.

Verrierdale's brigade is volunteers too, with its shed along Verrierdale Road from the hall, so send a thank-you to a person, at home. Anna would send the Australian Natives Bunch: protea and leucadendron don't react to smoke, and leucadendron lasts for weeks in water.