Sweet William in a Layered Concrete Pot

Sweet william is a dense flower: sixteen stems here read as one solid block of colour rather than sixteen separate blooms. The tones run from fuchsia through purple to pale pink, and they only separate out when you look closely. Slim burgundy luna spikes rise between them for vertical movement, round grey-green eucalyptus leaves cool the whole thing down, and dried citrus slices add a rustic layer. The pot is the other half of the design, a horizontally layered blue-green concrete form that gives the colour somewhere calm to sit. Low and wide at fifteen to twenty centimetres, so it works on a coffee table or a console where a tall arrangement would be in the way.

What is actually in it

Sixteen stems of sweet william in fuchsia, purple and pale pink, with burgundy luna spikes, round eucalyptus leaves and dried lemon slices, in a layered blue-green concrete pot fourteen centimetres high and seventeen wide, tied with a lilac ribbon. Overall height fifteen to twenty centimetres. Stem count, exact wrap and pot finish can vary slightly with seasonal availability.

What it looks like on day four

This is a living plant rather than a cut arrangement, so it does not have a vase life. Kept in the right light and watered properly it stays with the recipient for months or years, and the decorative pot remains long after that. Leaf size and the exact number of open flowers vary from plant to plant.

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

Keep the pot in a bright spot out of direct midday sun and water when the top of the soil feels dry, enough to keep it lightly moist. Remove flower heads as they fade and the rest of the cluster stays fresher and keeps producing. Keep it away from radiators and draughts, and the dried citrus and wheat details in the arrangement will last long after the fresh flowers have finished.

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.

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.