Stems in register
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Florilegium is a small atelier of named, documented, and largely unprintable flowers — orchids that bloom for a night, tulips re-cultivated from the Dutch flame, camellias of which two plants remain in the world. Single stems, cut to order, hand-couriered.
We trade only with growers we visit. Every cultivar is registered against the consignment lot and the conservatory of origin — heritage gardens, named breeders, CITES-licensed glasshouses.
The atelier holds no standing inventory beyond the stand presently in flower. A request opens the cutting card; nothing is held in cold storage for longer than the courier window requires.
Two-to-four-degree cold-chain, no third-party labelling, no transfer. Our couriers carry one consignment at a time when the stem demands it — and they do, more often than one would think.
Stems are taken at the moment the bloom is most open it can travel — never earlier, never later. The cutter signs the consignment card against a stand-side photograph.
Twenty minutes seared, twelve hours deep-drunk in pH-balanced water at four degrees. We re-cut every stem before it leaves the atelier — never at the door.
Cold-window held between two and four degrees from the cooler to the courier's bag. Validated for seventy-two hours; almost always used inside thirty-six.
By bicycle within Zone 1, by hand-courier across the UK, by validated cold-chain for international. Wax-seal, signed receipt, no third-party labelling.