### Lavender roses in Bali: narrow palette, closed box, long road Keep the palette narrow. Two or three shades within the same temperature give the smoky effect people ask for when they order this colour. Put several bright shades in the same bunch and the lilac drops to the level of filler, which wastes the reason for choosing it. Sun is the other thing to settle early. Ultraviolet breaks pale pigment down faster than saturated pigment, so a couple of bright days on an open sill leave the petals grey while the flower itself is still perfectly sound. > "A guest once told me the flowers had changed on the way. They had not. The paper came off in the sun on a terrace, and that was the whole story." > (JFLOO florist) Paper decides the first impression. Sand, grey and unbleached shades let the colour survive being unwrapped. A coloured film does the opposite: it changes the shade before anyone has looked at the flowers properly, and the recipient forms an opinion in that first second. We keep the wrapping neutral on this variety by default. If you want something stronger for the photograph, say so and we will line the inside instead. A narrow palette still leaves room to work. Lisianthus in cream or white sits in the same temperature as lilac, and macrophylla hydrangea does too when the heads come in a cool tone, so a mixed bunch can have variety without losing the effect. Orchids are a separate decision, because their shape competes with clustered heads and the bunch usually reads better without them. Three things travel with every order of this shade: - a palette held inside one temperature; - neutral paper; - a place to stand that is out of direct sun. Orders start at 650000 IDR. Payment goes through QRIS, GoPay, OVO, DANA or cash to the courier. #### Heat, rain and the length of the drive Above 30 °C and in high humidity the packing changes. Firm wrapping and a cooling element go into the box, and the clusters travel closed for the whole run. Small heads help here, since they take a knock far better than large open blooms and a long drive is mostly knocks. The rainy months from November to March add water to that and nothing else, because a closed box does not care about rain. In the drier stretch from April to October the heat is the harder half of the problem. Seminyak, Canggu and Sanur sit in a 90 to 150 minute window. Uluwatu, Tabanan and remote villas run to 3 or 4 hours, which is a long time in a warm car and the reason those addresses get the early slots. Delivery hours are 9 AM to 10 PM. Ocean villas, hotels in Nusa Dua, dinners in Ubud and ceremonies in Jimbaran make up most of what goes out in this colour. Lavender roses in Bali suit the last of those particularly well, since a cool shade holds its own in strong daylight better than a pale warm one. The length of the run also changes what we cut. Clusters heading to Uluwatu leave the workshop tighter than the ones going to a table in Seminyak, because the hours in the box count as part of the opening. By the time the paper comes off, the two have evened out. Give us the hour of the handover and that calculation gets a good deal easier. Send the address, the hour and the second colour you had in mind. We will confirm the window for that part of the island, keep the wrapping neutral unless you ask otherwise, and pass on one line to the recipient about where to put the vase.