Same Day Flower Delivery Withcott

It's their birthday, you're hours away, and the address is a number on a post with the house somewhere past the trees. I learned about those in 2007 on Dulguigan Road, out past Tumbulgum, with a birthday bunch from our Marine Parade shop and no idea which gate belonged to the birthday girl. The barman at the Tumbulgum Tavern drew her driveway on a coaster. I never did find out how he knew which lady I meant.

So describe the gate (the colour, the letterbox, the cattle grid) and add a mobile. Our bestselling birthday flowers and the birthday flowers for him both make the same-day run.

Anna's pick: if it might sit on a verandah until evening, natives or chrysanthemums take the wait in their stride.

They've been taken up to Toowoomba Hospital on Pechey Street, or across to Gatton Hospital, or they're home with orders not to lift anything. In our experience the ward desk takes the flowers in and a nurse carries them through. Our get well flowers suit the couch, the hospital flowers suit the ward, and "Rest up. See you home soon." is plenty on the card.

Anna, on the bedside

In a shared room, the bed next door didn't ask for perfume, so unscented gerberas, chrysanthemums and Asiatic lilies are the kind choice. Flowers already in water, like the Blue Mist Including Vase & Chocolates, save a nurse hunting for a jug.

The notice says Holy Family on Rutherford Road, or a chapel down in Gatton, and you can't be there. Send a funeral arrangement to the service, where funeral directors tend to take flowers in well before it starts, then something smaller to the house once the visitors thin out; our sympathy flowers for home are built for that. Flowers do nothing about the empty chair, and the family still reads every card. "With love, and with you all this week." says it.

Whites, creams and soft greens sit easily beside a coffin. A sheath or one of the wreaths and sheaths lies flat on a trestle, where a tall vase would tip.

Half the orders we get don't fit a heading: the neighbour who fed your horses for a fortnight, the friend who drove you to the specialist and back. Thank-you flowers cover it, no reason needed.

Anna has a view on this one. Natives Flowers With A Vase arrives in its own water, the woody stems ride out a hot week, and the tougher heads often dry on a shelf afterwards.