Your flowers are not dying of neglect. They are dying of geography. The fixes that matter:
A florist's post from a 118-degree day tells the story: a bouquet came back wilted, and the shop's best guess was a hot car, or a doorstep, in the heat. Every rule below exists because of afternoons like that one.
Water: change it, don't top it up
Water, changed every two days, not topped up with the old stuff.
A trim at every water change
A trim, half an inch off the stems at an angle each water change.
Distance from windows, vents, and the fridge
Distance from windows, vents, and the top of the fridge, which is secretly a heat source.
Cool room over flower food
Cool room over flower food: in a Vegas summer, air conditioning does more than the packet.
Local wisdom, worth knowing: valley regulars swear the east side runs hotter — one Lake Las Vegas realtor clocked 119 degrees at the lake on a day Anthem read 112 — and the National Weather Service pattern backs the direction of it. The lower-elevation east side runs warmer, with 7 to 10 degrees of spread across the valley on the same afternoon. Wherever your flowers live, the cool room is the one that matters.
How we deliver in summer
And the delivery part is ours: arrangements travel in water, in an air-conditioned vehicle, hand-carried by our drivers, never left baking outside in the summer. If nobody answers, we call before we decide anything, and an arrangement we cannot hand over comes back to a cool shop, not a hot doorstep.
Buying for a hot venue? Heat-hardy flowers that hold up.
Buy heat-hardy in summer
Buy heat-hardy in summer (orchids, anthurium, tropicals) and the desert stops being the enemy.
Start with flowers that can take the heat: heat-hardy flowers for Las Vegas events.
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