A single magenta peony opening against wet green leaves, shot at close range
Ypsilanti · a two-room studio on Cross Street

Wet colour.

We buy at the Detroit wholesale floor at 5am Wednesday, condition everything for twenty-four hours in a cold room at 3 °C, and sell it Thursday. Nothing here was cut more than nine days ago.

Wedding work
Weekly bucket · from $38
Plate 01Coral Charm peony · 6:40am · the wholesale floor
A long row of galvanised buckets packed with mixed cut flowers under market light
In the buckets, week 40Café au Lait dahlia · cosmos · amaranth · nicotiana · rudbeckia · copper beech41 buckets
How a week runs

Wednesday to Saturday, then it is gone

Cut stems standing in galvanised buckets of water on a concrete studio floor
Plate 02 · the cold room, 60 buckets at 3 °C
05:00 Wed

Buy, in person, with cash

Two hours on the wholesale floor. We do not pre-order and we do not take a list — we buy what is open, which is why the subscription never says what is in it.

41 buckets · 9 growers · one van
A pair of hands cutting a stem on an angle with floristry snips
Plate 03 · every stem cut on an angle, twice
Wed – Thu

Twenty-four hours in water

Everything is stripped, cut on an angle and left overnight. A peony bought Wednesday morning is not sold until Thursday afternoon, which is the whole reason it lasts eleven days on your table.

24 hours minimum · no exceptions in July
A finished bouquet lying wrapped in paper beside a roll of twine on a work bench
Plate 04 · wrapped at the bench, 6:40am Friday
Fri 07:00

The van goes out

Subscriptions on Tuesday and Friday, eleven miles of the studio door. Wedding installs leave at seven and we are off site by two, because nobody wants a florist in the room at three.

Two rounds a week · 11 mile radius
A long banqueting table dressed with low arrangements under a tented ceiling
Plate 05 · installed by 2pm, struck by midnight
Sat 09:00

Whatever is left, $12

Saturday morning the leftovers go in a bucket by the door at twelve dollars a wrap, first come. We would rather you took them home than put them in the compost on Monday.

$12a wrap, 9am Saturday, until the bucket is empty
CUT WEDNESDAY · SOLD THURSDAY

No foam. No dyed-blue roses. Nothing we cannot drive to.

Why it costs what it costs

A bucket is thirty stems and four hours

Before: a tight magenta peony bud still beaded with water on the Wednesday it was boughtAfter: the same peony fully open four days later, petals filling the frame
Plate 07 · drag your pointer across — Wednesday bud, Saturday head

The flowers are maybe a third of what you pay. The rest is the drive, the cold room, the conditioning, the wrap, and the hour someone spends deciding that the amaranth is wrong and pulling it back out.

Stems, wholesale
$21
Conditioning & cold room
$9
Bench time, 48 min
$24
Wrap, water tube, delivery
$8
See the three sizes
Three fill lines

Pick a height, not a flower

Every subscription is the same week's flowers. The only thing that changes is how far up the vessel the water has to come.

Three pink ranunculus heads still carrying water droplets
Fill line 1

Jam jar

$38

Twelve to fifteen stems, one focal, no foliage you have to prune. Fits a kitchen windowsill and a 9cm jar. Most people start here and move up in March.

Stems
12 – 15
Vessel
9 cm tall, 11 cm across
Last week · ranunculus, nigella, mintTuesday drop · weekly or fortnightly
A galvanised bucket crowded with pink, white and yellow blooms
Fill line 2

Pitcher

$62

Twenty-five to thirty stems with branch work in it. This is the one that reads from across a room, and the one we send to offices on Friday.

Stems
25 – 30
Vessel
24 cm tall, 14 cm across
Last week · dahlia, cosmos, copper beechTuesday or Friday · weekly or fortnightly
A wide basket heaped with dahlias in rust, plum and pink
Fill line 3

Bucket

$95

Forty-plus stems, delivered loose in water so you arrange it yourself. Restaurants and three very determined households take this one.

Stems
40 +
Vessel
38 cm tall, loose in water
Last week · dahlia, amaranth, hornbeamFriday drop · weekly only
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Thursday bench

Six seats6:30 – 8:30pm$85 all in
Several pairs of hands reaching across a bench covered in cut stems and offcuts
SIX BENCHES

You get the same stems we sold that morning, a vessel you keep, and someone standing behind you saying cut it shorter. Nobody leaves with a centrepiece shaped like a dome.

Dates and what to bring →
WEDNESDAY
Said back to us
14 June

“Eleven days. I kept photographing them to prove it to my sister.”

Thea Braddock · Pitcher, fortnightly
02 September

“You told us not to do an arch and you were right. Nobody looked at the ceiling once.”

Marek Sulima · wedding, Depot Town
19 October

“I came for one class and I have been every month since. The dahlias in October are almost rude.”

Bettina Nowak · Thursday bench
A sunlit studio room with potted plants, cut stems and a hanging mobile above the bench
412 Cross Street

Come and stand in it — the door is open
Thursday→
 and Saturday morning.

Thursday 10–6 · Saturday 9–2 · closed the first week of January