For My Mistress in Buenos Aires

Flowers for my mistress in Buenos Aires: a bouquet that arrives on your terms

When a bouquet from the For My Mistress in Buenos Aires selection arrives and she is out, the courier waits up to fifteen minutes and calls her directly. If she does not pick up, the manager contacts the sender, and only with the sender's agreement does the bouquet go to a concierge, a reception desk or a neighbour. Ordering flowers for a lover in Buenos Aires starts with deciding how that moment will go, before the choice of stems.

Lavender roses, lilies or peonies: what the selection offers

Lavender runs through the selection: spray roses come as bunches of 11 or 25 stems, and the Peony Lavender Roses shape the same colour into a fuller head. Lavender Smoothie keeps that palette in a mixed hand-tied shape, with Blue Field and Christine close in tone.

For more volume, 15 lilies, a bunch of 35 peonies or 51 Jumilia in airy wrapping fill more space than a hand-tied bunch. Jumilia opens into a bud up to seven centimetres across, white at the base and pink at the edge, and lasts up to two weeks in good care.

Where vase life matters more than size, dianthus, mixed alstroemeria or pink chrysanthemums hold for two to three weeks against roughly a week for a rose. Peonies stay in the selection for most of the year, though not every month.

A hand-tied bouquet needs a vase of water as soon as it arrives. The 25 Mixed Roses in a Box, Bright Melody and any basket stand their stems in floral foam instead, so no vase is needed.

The foam takes a thin stream of water across its whole surface every day; once dried out, it barely takes water back up. Every part of a lily, including the pollen and the water left in the vase, is toxic to cats, so where she keeps a cat, lilies and the lily basket are worth leaving off the order.

Discreet flower delivery: who knows what

Discreet flower delivery in Buenos Aires starts with what the courier is told: her name and the address, nothing about who sends the flowers or why. The card can carry a signature or stay blank, and sending flowers anonymously costs nothing extra.

Nobody calls her ahead of time unless the sender asks, except for a building nobody can enter without ringing first, where the courier calls from the door instead. The courier hands her the bouquet in person with the card and says nothing beyond what the sender asked for.

No registration is needed: a name and a phone number are enough to order a bouquet for her. Photos go to that number before the courier sets off, then a message once it is handed over; without an address, her phone number alone is enough to start.

Payment runs through Visa or Mastercard, and the total in the basket is final. Delivery in the centre is free, and how soon a bouquet can go out shows on its own card on the delivery page.

Ordering ahead: set dates, changes and 14 February

A bouquet for a set date and time slot can be booked into any zone, and the earlier it is placed, the wider the choice of slots left. Orders are taken around the clock, and filling in the form takes about two minutes.

Several details can still be changed after payment, right up until the bouquet leaves the workshop and no later than six hours before delivery:

• the date and time slot
• the address
• the recipient
• the card text

A message to the manager with the order number is enough. On 14 February, order volumes multiply and slots run wider than usual, with no promise of an exact minute, so ordering a few days ahead is worth it.

A straightforward place to start is a bunch of peonies, or flowers in a box and flower baskets for a home where nobody will be free to find a vase in time.