### Summer bouquets in Dubai: heat is the standing cost of the season In summer the city runs up to 40 °C, and that single number governs everything in this category. Stems drink hard, water in the vase clouds inside a day, and a bouquet left in a warm car for even a short while shows brown petal edges by the evening. None of that is about the flowers being poor. It is about where they spent the middle of the afternoon. A bouquet that came straight into a cooled room and one that waited twenty minutes on a sunny counter can look identical on arrival and completely different on the third day, which is why we treat the timing of a summer order as part of the order rather than a logistics detail. Three habits carry one through: - Recut on the first evening and change the water daily. - Wash the vase each time, since the film on the glass blocks the cut faster than heat does. - Keep the vase off the windowsill and out of the flow from an air conditioner. > "The complaint we hear in summer is always the same, and the answer is almost never the flowers. It is the twenty minutes nobody counted." > JFLOO florist Delivery takes 2 to 4 hours across the city. Orders start from 250 AED, with payment through Apple Pay or cash to the courier. #### What the season gives, and what it does not Volume is not a gift of the calendar here. The material is greenhouse grown and flown in: Dutch roses at 60 to 90 cm, Ecuadorian roses up to 120 cm, Dutch peonies outside the season, tulips and chrysanthemums from UAE greenhouses. Summer changes how all of that has to be handled rather than what sits on the bench. Scent is where the season shows itself most. Warm air carries it further than a cool room does, and the same bouquet that fills an entrance hall pleasantly becomes difficult in a small bedroom and unwelcome on a dining table where people sit for a long stretch. Ask for the unscented option when the bouquet is going somewhere people stay put, and put the scented one where they pass through. Coastal humidity is the quiet help in all this. A cut end seals slowly in damp air, so the stem keeps drinking on the journey, and the difference against a dry climate at the same temperature is real. #### Where the heat actually gets at it Between the van and the vase, almost every time. We add insulated packing through the hot months and keep the bouquet out of direct sun at each stage, including the walk across a car park, since a parked interior climbs past the outside air within minutes. Offices in DIFC and Business Bay take the early slot for that reason. The bouquet arrives before the desks fill, goes into conditioned air straight away and spends none of the day waiting on a counter in the sun. Hotels are the easiest destination of the year. Burj Al Arab, Address Downtown, Four Seasons and Atlantis The Palm all move a delivery indoors immediately, and for a summer bouquet that is worth more than any packing we can put around it. Homes in Downtown, Marina, JBR and on Palm Jumeirah are where the late slot earns its keep. Handing over at the end of the day means the bouquet goes from a cooled vehicle into a cooled room without a warm gap in between, and that gap is the whole problem in one phrase. Say which hour the recipient will be at the address and whether the room is air conditioned. Those two answers change the packing, the slot and how tightly the buds are cut, and in this climate they matter more than anything else on the order.