Same Day Flower Delivery Wootha, Every Road and Driveway

It's their birthday and you can't be there, which is the whole reason you're here. Our birthday flowers go out to Wootha the same day, and on acreage the number tends to sit on the letterbox with the house somewhere past it, so pop the road number, a word about the driveway and a mobile in the notes.

I'm fussy about that number because of 2007, Pearl Street in Kingscliff, and an order that said only 'the white house with the palms'. I knocked. A voice inside called 'Come in!' I said I had flowers. 'Come in!' again, then 'Who's a pretty boy?' A cockatoo. The birthday girl was next door, also white, also palms, laughing over the fence. Wootha has more birds than people (six hundred-odd at Maleny Botanic Gardens and Bird World on Maleny-Stanley River Road, against 258 residents at the 2021 census), so the odds of a cockatoo answering are not small. The number, please.

Roses sometimes turn up with an outer petal or two looking bruised. Those are guard petals, left on to protect the bloom on the drive. Peel them off and the rose underneath is fresh.

They're in Maleny Soldiers Memorial Hospital on Bean Street, or home under orders to rest. For the hospital, add the ward and their full name and our hospital flowers go to the ward desk, where in our experience the staff take them through. If they're recovering at home, get well flowers need the same driveway note as a birthday. Card idea: 'Get well soon. I'll ring on the weekend.'

Anna, briefly: 3 Gerberas In A Vase suits a ward. There's no scent for the next bed, and it brings its own vase. If a head bows, recut two centimetres off the stem and stand it in shallow warm water for an hour.

A funeral in the family, organised from wherever you are. Usually two things go: funeral flowers to the service, a wreath or a sheath (a flat spray that lies on the casket), with the funeral director's name and the start time in the notes; then sympathy flowers for the home the week after, when the visitors thin out. Flowers are no help at all, and they help. Both are true that week. For the card: 'Holding you all close.'

Anna, on colour in a sad room

Whites, creams and soft greens sit quietly in a room full of grieving people and compete with nobody: the White Lily & Rose Sheath for the service, the Gorgeous Whites Bunch for the house. Check the family's tradition first, because white isn't the safe colour in every one.

A wedding at the botanic gardens on Maleny-Stanley River Road (add the couple's names and the ceremony time), a thank-you to whoever's been checking on Mum, or no reason at all. You don't need a category for any of them.

Anna's answer: the Florist's Choice Bunch. No occasion means no brief to get wrong, so the florist can fill it with whatever came in best that morning.