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New Year compositions in Singapore: fir for the monsoon weeks
Christmas Day and New Year's Day are both public holidays in Singapore, and both fall inside the north-east monsoon, the stretch from November into January when the island gets its wettest weeks of the year. New Year compositions in Singapore answer a practical question before a pretty one: which piece travels well to someone's door in the rain, and which is better left standing at home.
Gold box, floral bag or bouquet: how New Year fir reaches the door
For a visit, noble fir works best packed into a gold box, carried in a floral bag, or tied into a bouquet with red berries running through the branches. A box or a bag needs no vase: whoever answers the door lifts it straight out of the courier's hands and sets it on a table as it is. November–January rain is a reason to think about packaging; more on the rainy season: flowers in Singapore. In Chinese tradition red marks celebration and good fortune, so red berries and a red branch tree are fitting here. For a gift carried to someone in person, New Year bouquets are the starting point.
More than three in four people in Singapore live in an HDB flat, and that shapes what actually fits on a dining table or a console by the door. A low tabletop arrangement, a tree built from bare branches, or a wreath hung on a wall all suit a flat or a condo better than something built to stand on the floor. Anyone who wants colour alongside the greenery can look at a basket where fresh flowers sit among the fir. Indoors, these New Year compositions in Singapore do better kept away from a direct blast of air conditioning and off a windowsill at midday. New Year baskets carry that fuller mix of fir and flowers for anyone who wants both.
A bento cake beside the fir: a small sweet for the same delivery
A bento cake is a small, hand-sized cake in its own cardboard box, with a short greeting piped in cream on top, and it can go in the same order as the fir. Daytime temperatures in Singapore sit at 31–33°C all year, and a cream cake should not stand at room temperature above 32°C for more than an hour, so the recipient should put it somewhere cool as soon as it arrives. New Year gifts is the place to look for a cake to go with the fir.
A company's New Year order for the CBD: fir and gift sets
An office tower in Raffles Place, Marina Bay or Tanjong Pagar is a different kind of address from a flat, and a company sending greetings to staff and partners usually needs paperwork to match. JFLOO issues the invoice to the company, provides closing documents on request, and sets up a contract for anyone ordering through the season on a regular basis. One order can cover several office addresses at once, with delivery charged separately for each stop. Corporate gifts for the New Year are built for that kind of list.
Delivery in the city centre is free, and a date and time slot can be set for any zone on the island. The florist photographs the finished piece before the courier sets off, and most orders are delivered on the day they are placed; how soon a given piece can travel is shown on its own page. Full delivery terms list the zones.
Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year; its flowers are under flowers in Singapore. For a gift carried to the door, the gold box and bouquet formats above are the easiest starting point; for something left standing at home, start with tabletop arrangements.