An office is where flowers go to be tested. No one's topping the water, the air conditioning runs cold air straight at the arrangement, and Friday afternoon everyone leaves for the weekend. Most flowers weren't built for this. Some, however, don't care.
After supplying a couple of dozen Oamaru workplaces, we know exactly what holds a week and what sulks by Wednesday.
The survivors
Chrysanthemums: the workhorse. Two weeks is normal. Alstroemeria: opens slowly, keeps opening all week. Carnations: unfashionable and nearly indestructible. Leucadendrons and proteas: basically architecture. Eucalyptus and structural foliage: does most of the visual work anyway.
The smart move is anchoring arrangements in survivors and threading in one or two showier stems. You get the impact early in the week and the structure carries it to Friday.
What we leave out
Highly scented stems are out. A reception that smells like a perfume counter gets complaints. Anything that sheds petals (looking at you, some roses) goes too; office managers don't want to clean the desk daily. Lilies get skipped around staff allergies, and anything top-heavy gets a heavier vessel or it becomes a workplace hazard.
The weekly service
We swap the arrangement before your week starts: no one on your team touches a stem. $65/week, all in.
Placement is half the battle
Direct sun through the glass frontage cooks an arrangement by Tuesday. So does the spot under the AC vent, and the shelf above the radiator in winter. At the walkthrough we check these things, the best arrangement in the world loses to bad placement.
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