Twelve days from the dahlias
I followed the care card to the letter - re-cut every two days, fresh water - and the Café au Lait dahlias lasted twelve days. The box is entirely paper and cardboard, which matters to me.
October in one bouquet. Poppy-red cactus dahlias and spiky Firepot chrysanthemums with branches of rosehip, crab apple and copper beech, finished with bronze grasses that catch the low autumn light. It is loud, warm and a little wild - exactly how the hedgerows look this month.
The Ember is only in the shop while the dahlias last, which in a mild year can be the first week of November. When the frost comes, it goes.
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- Hand-delivered by our own cargo bikes and electric vans across London Zones 1-6, Tuesday to Saturday - order by 1pm for same-day delivery. Next-day courier to the rest of mainland UK for £7.95. Wrapped in compostable paper with a care card and a sachet of flower food; no plastic, no floral foam.
Details & materials
- This week’s stems
- Cactus dahlia, chrysanthemum, rosehip, crab apple, beech, grasses
- Sizes
- Classic 15-18 stems · Deluxe 22-26 stems · Luxe 32-36 stems
- Grown in
- Kent, England
- Season
- Late September to the first frost
- Vase life
- 7-9 days; berries and beech last longer
- Care
- Trim 2 cm at an angle, fresh water every two days, away from the fruit bowl
Shipping & returns
Hand-delivered by our own cargo bikes and electric vans across London Zones 1-6, Tuesday to Saturday - order by 1pm for same-day delivery. Next-day courier to the rest of mainland UK for £7.95. Wrapped in compostable paper with a care card and a sachet of flower food; no plastic, no floral foam.
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Reviews
Rated 4.9 out of 54.9 · 87 reviews
Rated 5.0 out of 5 Rated 5.0 out of 5 Ordered at 11, delivered by 3
Sent a Classic Hackney to my mum on her birthday at short notice. The rider texted a photo on delivery and the handwritten card was lovely. It looked like an armful from a garden, not a supermarket.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 Beautiful, travelled well by courier
Outside London so it came next day by courier - still perfectly fresh in its water pouch. One star off only because the Deluxe was a little smaller than I imagined; the stem counts on the size guide are accurate though.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 Our wedding, exactly as we pictured it
Hattie walked us round the dahlia field in August and built everything from what was in flower that week. No foam, nothing flown in, and they pressed our leftover stems into a frame for us.
