### Juliet spray roses in Phuket: working backwards from the day Work backwards from the day that matters. For a bunch that has to look full at a dinner or a shoot, order two or three days ahead and keep it somewhere cool. Warmth speeds the cups open and there is no way to slow them once they have started. For a present handed over in person, tight stems are the better choice. The recipient gets the opening instead of the ending, and closed stems still read as generous because of the number of buds sitting on each one. > "We ask which day the flowers matter, not which day the courier should come. On this island those are rarely the same date." > JFLOO florist Orders start from 2200 THB. Payment goes by bank card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PromptPay, bank transfer or cash to the courier in baht. #### Heat is the accelerator The island runs at 25 to 33 °C in high humidity, and the two or three days quoted above run shorter than that here. A bunch held in a cooled room behaves closer to the standard timetable, which is worth knowing before ordering a week early for a wedding. During monsoon showers from May to October we add route time. In the evening hill traffic we add it again. Neither of those hurts a closed bunch, and both of them cost an open one part of its best stage. Cool rooms buy back a day. #### Water discipline Water does more for this variety than anything else on the list. The stems are thin and block quickly, so a fresh slanted cut every second day and clean water in a washed vase are what let the side buds reach their turn at all. A recipient who keeps that up gets the whole sequence, from the closed cups through to the side buds taking over. One who tops the vase up without ever changing the water usually sees those side buds dry shut while the central flower is still going. Warm rooms make cloudy water arrive sooner, so on the island that second day cut is closer to a requirement than a suggestion. #### The road Along the west coast we work to 90 to 180 minutes, covering Patong, Kata, Karon, Kamala, Surin, Bang Tao, Phuket Town, Rawai, Chalong and Mai Khao. Villas, marinas and airport routes have their own windows. The working day is 9 AM to 10 PM. Airport arrivals are the awkward one. The bunch is carried through a terminal, into a car and then into a room, and each of those handovers is a chance for an open cup to catch on something. We build those closed and short, with the clusters bound low enough to sit inside the wrap. Three answers set the dispatch stage: - the day the bunch has to look widest - whether it is handed over in person or left at an address - whether there is somewhere cool to keep it until then Imported roses in cream sit closest to the apricot and hold the pale end of the range without competing for attention. Thai orchids take the upper lines when a build needs height. Hydrangeas give a broad block for larger work, chrysanthemums fill the body, and tropical foliage goes round the outside in small quantities, because a cluster of cups already fills its own space. Give us the date and where the bunch will wait until then. Juliet spray roses in Phuket ordered two days out and kept cool arrive at the right stage on their own, and a bunch ordered for the same evening leaves the bench already open, which is a different flower with the same name on the label.