Flowers for a new home

The first flowers in a new house are the ones that make it look lived in, so send something that will last through the boxes: a planted bowl of bulbs, a basket of hyacinths, or a hand-tied that comes with its own vase from the Home & Glory shelf, because the vases are always the last thing to be unpacked. Green and white settles into any room before anyone has chosen the paint.

Tell us the moving date and we will deliver on the day after, when somebody is there to answer the door and there is a kettle to be found. The van covers the towns and villages around Sevenoaks; the letterbox box posts a bunch to a new address anywhere in the UK. The card is written by hand: a welcome, a first joke about the neighbours, the date to put in the diary.