### Strawberries with flowers in Phuket: half of it belongs to tonight Sending this box means sending two gifts with different lifespans under one lid. The fruit belongs to the evening it arrives. The stems carry on for several days after that, in a glass of water, once somebody has taken them out of the tray. Nobody explains that at the door. It is the single most useful thing to pass on with the card, and it is the reason we ask for an hour rather than a date. #### The evening it arrives Open it, share the fruit, empty that side of the tray. What remains is a small posy that has been standing in water tubes or damp foam, and it wants a fresh diagonal cut and a glass the same night. Left in the box, the stems keep wetting the tray while the fruit warms beside them, and by the following morning both halves have gone off together. Ten minutes of attention buys the flowers their full week. Skipping those ten minutes costs the whole gift, which is a strange trade to make with something that arrived looking finished. Whatever fruit is left over goes into the fridge uncovered rather than sealed back under film. Dipped pieces are held by the hull, since the coating stays tacky once it has softened in a warm room. None of it keeps until the next day in the condition it arrived in, so the honest plan is to finish it that night. Recipients who treat the box as an ornament lose both halves. It looks composed, taking it apart feels like undoing somebody's work, and that instinct is what we write against on the card. The box is not the gift. #### Getting it there at the right hour Along the west coast the window runs 90 to 180 minutes, which covers Patong, Kata, Karon, Kamala, Bang Tao and Surin. Villas, marinas and airport routes have separate slots. From May to October the rains and the evening traffic on the hill roads stretch a route, and we add that time when we quote rather than after we are late. The address decides how the handover goes. A resort birthday at Rosewood Phuket, The Slate Phuket or Banyan Tree Phuket means a room the guest may not be in, so we time it for when they are. A dinner by the sea wants the box on the table at a stated moment. A villa needs a gate name and somebody who can open it, and an airport arrival needs a build robust enough to sit in a car while a flight lands. Access is the part people underestimate. A villa gate, a marina berth or a resort footpath all mean the courier parks and walks the last stretch, and this box travels level in two hands the whole way, because a tilted tray sends water from the vials into the fruit side. That is also why it is handed to a person instead of left at a desk. Four details make the difference between a good delivery and a rescued one. - The hour the recipient is actually there. - A phone number that answers while the courier is on the road. - Whether the room has a fridge, since that decides how much of the fruit half survives the night. - Whether anyone will be around to take the stems out, because a box left sealed on a hotel desk until midnight arrives as one gift and turns into none. Delivery runs 9 AM to 10 PM, orders start from 2200 THB, and payment goes by bank card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PromptPay, bank transfer or cash in baht. > "The card is where the instruction goes. Eat the fruit tonight, put the stems in a glass, and the second half of the gift lasts the week." > JFLOO florist Send the hour, the area and the name on the gate or the room. We are on UTC+7 with no daylight saving, so if you are ordering from abroad, name the hour by the recipient's clock and we will pack the fruit side to reach them cold.