Flower Delivery to Watson ACT Today, Monday to Saturday

It's their birthday, you're nowhere near Watson, and all you have is the address someone texted you. A house is simple. A unit isn't always, and nearly a third of homes in Watson are townhouses or semis, including the complex on the old Starlight Drive-in site (the big sign is still up, if you know it). Whatever the birthday, a 40th or a best friend's, if it's going to one of those, put the unit number and any gate code in the notes.

The Bright Arrangement With Chocolates is built into soaked foam in its own box, so it's drinking from the minute it lands and nobody has to leave the party to find even a jug. Foam dries from the top down, though. Pour a little water in every couple of days, or the roses up top go soft first.

Last week of the school year, and the teacher at Majura Primary or Rosary Primary has earned more than a card in the schoolbag. Send thank-you flowers to the front office with the teacher's name and class on them, because that's where schools tend to want them. Andrew learnt why in December 2007, when he took a bucket of teacher bunches in the wrong door at Kingscliff Public School and walked straight through the middle of an assembly. The whole school turned round. He still won't talk about it.

Anna, on the ride home

Teacher flowers ride home in a hot car at the end of the day, and a hand-tied bunch lies flat on the seat without spilling. The back shelf is the worst spot in the car: an hour of December sun through the glass costs a bunch days in the vase.

Someone has died, and you're working out what goes where. Funeral flowers need the church or chapel and the start time in the notes (Holy Rosary on Antill Street, say, or Norwood Park in Mitchell), so they're in place before the first car pulls up. Flowers to the house often mean more a week later, once it has all gone quiet. Flowers change nothing about what has happened, and people still remember who sent them. "Thinking of you all, with love" is plenty for the card.

Anna's take: white lilies are about as traditional as funeral flowers get. If lilies go to the house, pinch off the anthers as each one opens and the pollen never reaches a good black jacket.

A new job, a rough patch, the neighbour who fed the cat: plenty of orders are like that. Anna has a default for those, and it comes from our native flowers.

The Natives Flowers With A Vase. The vase comes with it, and protea and leucadendron are built for dry air, so a Canberra winter with the heating on suits them fine. Top the water up every second day, though. A protea can drink a vase dry in a couple of days.