Orchid plants worldwide: boxes, bouquets and orchids with chocolate
Orchid plants worldwide turn up paired with chocolate more than once on this grid: Chocolate Orchid Bouquet, Belgian Chocolate Orchid and Chocolate Candies with Orchid all send the flower and the sweet as one gift. The first choice is the form the orchid takes, and whether it needs a box of chocolates alongside it.
Orchids in a box, a bouquet or a jute pot
Orchid plants worldwide come as a box, a bouquet or a jute pot. The names on the grid say most of it. Orchid Box, Orchid Box No. 1 and 7 Orchids in a Box set the flower on its own. Roses and Orchids in a Box and the Misty and Orchid Duo Box pair it with something else. The Orchid and Lisianthus in a Hat Box uses a hat box, a shape borrowed from the cardboard boxes milliners used for storing hats in the nineteenth century.
Orchid Bouquet No. 1 and No. 2 keep the flower alone, while the Bouquet of Orchids and Roses "Esenny" and the Bouquet with Orchids "Vita" bring it together with roses. The Orchid and Roses in Jute Pot sets the same pairing in a jute pot instead of a bouquet.
Three positions carry chocolate in their name: Chocolate Orchid Bouquet, Belgian Chocolate Orchid and Chocolate Candies with Orchid pair the flower with a box of sweets. Cocoa butter melts at thirty-four to thirty-eight degrees, just under body temperature, so the chocolate is better off away from a radiator or a sunny windowsill — exactly where an orchid often stands. Chocolate that has melted and set again picks up a pale bloom on the surface; that is cocoa butter settling into a different structure, not the chocolate going off. Other sweets, balloons and a card can be added at checkout, and a text card costs nothing extra.
How to look after an orchid plant
Where the gift is a potted phalaenopsis, this is what keeps it flowering. Phalaenopsis is the orchid most often sold in a pot, and in the wild it grows as an epiphyte on trees, with part of its roots doing their own photosynthesis. That is why the potting mix is bark rather than soil, the pot is clear, and healthy roots look plump and silvery white.
- Watering: about once a week while the plant is growing, less often in winter; never leave the pot standing in water, and empty the saucer underneath after each watering.
- Leaves and crown: keep water off the leaves and out of the central growing point.
- Temperature: nineteen to thirty degrees by day, sixteen to nineteen at night; direct summer sun burns the leaves.
- After flowering: blooms last two to three months. Once they drop, cut the flower spike above the second node, since a side shoot often follows; if nothing appears, cut back to the base instead. Repot about once every two years.
Orchid delivery worldwide: how the order works
Every order is put together after payment, and the finished piece is photographed before the courier leaves, so anything that needs fixing gets fixed before it is on the road. An address is not required: the recipient's phone number is enough, and the card can be left anonymous if the sender prefers. Payment runs through Visa or Mastercard, the courier collects nothing further, and delivery in the centre costs nothing. Most orders go out the same day they are placed; the exact timing shows on the bouquet's own page, and zones and rates are on the delivery page.
For an address that might not have a vase to hand, flowers in boxes sit in soaked foam and need nothing else. Roses pair naturally with an orchid box or bouquet, and the roses section covers the shades this grid mixes them with. To turn either into the gift the section keeps returning to, chocolates and other gifts to go with a bouquet can be added at checkout.
