West Mackay Flower Delivery, Same Day to Home or Work

The birthday is today and you're nowhere near Mackay. For a house, add a mobile number and a shady spot. For a workplace, the business name and the floor. For a 90th birthday at Francis of Assisi Home on Dupuy Street, the room number goes in the notes and staff tend to walk the flowers through to the room. Our best-selling birthday flowers are the quickest place to start.

On a care-room bedside table, flowers about one and a half times the height of the vase sit neatly beside the glasses and the photo frames.

You've got a name, a text that says Mackay Base, and maybe no ward yet. If they're home tomorrow, send to the house. If they're staying, get the ward from whoever sent that text, then put the full name and ward in the notes (Women's Health Unit for a new baby), because in our experience staff carry hospital flowers up from the front desk.

In 2007 I walked a vase into The Tweed Hospital on Powell Street for a woman moved to intensive care overnight. Intensive care had a no-flowers rule, and her husband carried the lot home in a shopping bag. If your person is still in intensive care, hold off until they're on a ward. A card line that works: "Rest up. Thinking of you."

Anna's call: a wrapped bunch sits on a ward waiting for someone to find a vase, so send get well flowers in a vase or a box, which stands up the minute it lands. In a shared room go gerberas, and save the scented lilies for when they're home.

The notice gives a time and a place. Funeral flowers go to the service, and a vase goes to the family's home in the days after. For St Francis Xavier's in West Mackay or Mackay Funerals on Alfred Street, put the service time in the notes. The old cemetery on Cemetery Road sold its last plots in the 1990s, and the lawn cemetery at Mount Bassett has taken its place. Flowers are a small thing against a funeral, and families still notice who sent them. Card line: "With love and deepest sympathy."

Anna, on timing and lawn graves

Too early and a wreath or sheath waits for hours in a back room. Too late and it misses the service. On a lawn grave a sheath lies flat, where a tall vase tips.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: a new job, a rough week, a neighbour who fed the dog. Our Australian Native Arrangement is the second most popular thing we sell, and it suits a ward, a care room or a house. Anna can tell you why it lasts.

Australian natives like protea and leucadendron have woody stems built for heat, and a protea will usually go a week or more in a Mackay summer. They drink hard, though. I've seen a protea empty its vase in two days, so keep the water topped up.