Same Day Flower Delivery to Weyba Downs

You have the date, an address off a text, and a house behind the trees. Out here the number is on a post at Eumarella Road and the house is somewhere up the drive, and the job is the same one Siobhan and I did ourselves in the shop years: find the right door. One of my St Joseph's Village runs in Tweed Heads South, about 2009, Asha not quite two. I carried the roses, she carried the card, and by the time we found the right villa most of the neighbours had come out to look at her. The lady sat down on her front step to read the card and Asha sat down beside her like they had arranged it. I stood there holding the roses for a good while. Nobody was in a hurry to take them off me. Asha was the delivery, the flowers were the excuse, and a villa number in Tweed or a shed colour on Lake Weyba Drive is what gets the card to the step. Put the gate and the driveway in the notes and birthday flowers are on the table before lunch.

Anna's call: woody stems around the outside, so the soft ones ride the drive.

Someone from the block is in hospital and you cannot get there. There is no hospital in Weyba Downs, so it is Noosa Hospital on Goodchap Street, or Sunshine Coast University Hospital at Birtinya for the serious ones: two different runs. Reception on the ward takes it, so the notes need the ward and the full name. I did Murwillumbah Hospital in 2007 with Asha a few weeks old screaming in the car, 37 degrees, no parking. Reception took the flowers. It still does. Get well flowers or hospital flowers.

Anna, on ward flowers

Nothing scented for a shared room: unscented Asiatic lilies or chrysanthemum, boxed, because nobody on a ward is finding a vase.

Someone you know has bought a few acres on Lake Weyba Drive and is living out of boxes, the vase in one of them. A boxed arrangement gets set down on whatever bench is clear; celebration flowers ride the same morning run.

The box is the vase. Chrysanthemum and carnation cope with a kitchen where nobody tops up the water; a hand-tied bunch waits in its paper until the boxes are unpacked.

A good share of orders for this postcode fit no heading: a horse died, a neighbour fed the chooks for a fortnight, someone is a long way from home. Anna has a view.

Natives. Banksia, grevillea and kangaroo paw belong on a verandah facing Lake Weyba, and the woody stems shrug off a dry breeze. Split the base of a banksia stem before it goes in water.