Same Day Flower Delivery Wurtulla, Beach or Canal House

The birthday's today and you're not the one knocking. Our birthday flowers are made up on the day, for a house on the beach streets or one backing onto Pangali Canal. Put a mobile in the notes. In our experience the florist rings it before leaving anything in the shade. If it's for Mum, start with birthday flowers for Mum.

Anna, on carnations in a mix: the buds keep opening, so it looks fuller in week two than on day one.

Someone's had surgery, or a baby, and you've got a name. From Wurtulla it's most likely Sunshine Coast University Hospital or the private hospital beside it on Doherty Street. Put which one, the ward and a mobile in the notes, and in our experience get-well flowers go to the ward desk and the staff take them in. Already home? Send them to the house. For a new arrival, send new baby flowers, and "Welcome, little one" is all the card needs.

I learned why the ward matters around 2008, carrying get-well gerberas into Tweed Hospital on Powell Street with a name and nothing else. Two wards and a lift later I found the patient in the kiosk downstairs, in her dressing gown. She'd watched me walk past twice with her own flowers. The hospitals on Doherty Street are a lot bigger than that one.

Anna, on shared rooms

Oriental lilies are glorious in a private room. In a shared one the scent reaches the next bed too, so go with pollen-free Asiatics, which give the lily look with no scent at all. A boxed arrangement needs no vase on a hospital table.

You've heard the news and you can't get there. Flowers for the service usually go through the funeral director. For the family, sympathy flowers for home land better a few days on, once the house goes quiet. A bunch of flowers is a small thing to send after a death. It's also usually what's still on the bench when the visitors stop coming. "So sorry. Here whenever you need us." is plenty for the card.

Whites and creams sit quietly in a grieving house. White chrysanthemum outlasts nearly anything in a warm room, and the fruit bowl doesn't bother it.

Plenty of orders don't fit a heading: a new job, keys to a place off Nicklin Way, a Tuesday. Florist's Choice is for those.

Anna, on Florist's Choice: when I was left to choose, I built around whatever looked best in the buckets that morning, and they were usually my best bunches. Give the florist one thing to go on, a colour they wear or a flower they can't stand, and let them run.