Potted Pink Lily in Purple Wrap

A potted lily gives you something a cut bouquet cannot: buds that open in sequence, so the plant is at its best three or four days after it arrives rather than on the first morning. This one carries bright pink petals, several unopened buds and dark green foliage, set in a polymer pot wrapped in glossy purple paper and tied with a green ribbon. Soft pampas grass and a slice of dried lemon add a warm, textured note. At forty to forty-five centimetres it has real presence on a table or a windowsill. Lilies are strongly scented, which most people like and a few do not, worth knowing before you send one to a small flat.

What is actually in it

One potted pink lily in a polymer pot twelve centimetres high and thirteen and a half wide, wrapped in glossy purple paper with a green ribbon. Finished with orange pampas grass and a dried lemon slice. Overall height forty to forty-five 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.

Potted lilies want plenty of bright but indirect light; direct sun marks the leaves. Turn the pot every few days so it grows evenly. Water once the top of the soil has dried slightly, and use a pot that drains, because too much water rots the bulb. The buds open in sequence over several days, so the plant looks different, and often better, a few days after it arrives. Lily pollen stains fabric, so brush the anthers off if that matters where it is standing.

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: Lilies Mean Both Grief and Celebration, Here's How to Tell Them Apart

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.