15 Red Roses Bouquet

Some messages do not need reinventing. Fifteen red roses, gathered into a full, rounded bouquet with a little greenery, say what you mean more clearly than any card: you are special, and your place in my life is your own. Big enough to feel like a real gesture, still easy for the recipient to put in a vase at home. Choose it for an anniversary, Valentine's Day, a partner's birthday, an apology, or simply because you are far away today and want them to know you are thinking of them. Add a few lines on the note page after checkout and we will write them on the card by hand.

What is actually in it

15 red roses with a little seasonal greenery, wrapped and tied by hand. Height 30 to 40 cm. Greenery and wrapping can vary slightly with availability.

What it looks like on day four

Roses like these usually stay at their best for about a week, often longer with fresh water and trimmed stems. A few outer petals may show darker tips; that is a trait of the variety, not damage, and they can simply be removed.

We photograph every listing on the bench under daylight. The image you are looking at is the arrangement, not a mood board.

Once the bouquet arrives, remove the wrapping and any ties, strip the lower leaves and cut two to three centimetres off each stem at an angle, ideally under running water. Place it in a clean vase filled halfway with room-temperature water and add the flower food. Keep it away from direct sun, draughts and heaters, change the water every day and trim the stems slightly each time.

The five things that actually matter

1. Recut the stems. Two centimetres off at a 45° angle, under running water if you can. Air locks in the stem are the main cause of early droop.
2. Strip leaves below the waterline. Submerged foliage rots and turns the water bacterial within a day.
3. Change the water, do not just top it up. Every two days, with the sachet we include.
4. Keep them away from fruit. Ripening fruit releases ethylene, which ages cut flowers dramatically faster.
5. Cool and out of direct sun. A radiator or a sunny windowsill will halve the vase life of anything.

Do all five and you should see nine days from this bouquet rather than five. The long version is in the journal.

Related reading: What Red Roses Really Mean (and When Yellow or White Says It Better)

Delivery

Same-day delivery is available across all 39 districts of Istanbul, on the same nine daily delivery windows from 09:00 to 22:00. Delivery is always free, on every order, everywhere we deliver in Istanbul, no threshold, no surcharge.

We deliver in our own vans with our own drivers. That is more expensive than handing it to a parcel courier, and it is the reason 98.2% of orders land inside the window you chose.

Substitution policy

Fresh flowers are an agricultural product. Occasionally the market does not have what we planned for, especially with seasonal stems like peonies. When that happens we do one of two things, and never anything else:

• Substitute a stem of equal or greater value in the same colour family, and email you a photograph before dispatch so you can approve it or cancel for a full refund.
• If no acceptable substitute exists, we call you. We will not quietly send something different and hope you do not notice.

Cancellations

Change or cancel free until 18:00 the day before delivery. After that the flowers are cut and conditioned specifically for your order, so cancellation is not possible — this is the perishable-goods exception under distance-selling rules, and it is stated again at checkout before you pay.