Buy what the market admits
The stall’s own season is the posy’s menu: tulips and daffodils through spring, sweet peas burning out by August, chrysanthemums and branches carrying the autumn. Seasonal stems are cheaper, last longer, and look like the actual month.
Out-of-season flowers arrive jet-lagged and priced accordingly. The journal’s rule is the market’s: take what the season is good at, and let the rest of the year want them properly.
Let winter have branches
In the dark months, a branch of hazel or blossom-forced indoors is the seasonal posy: bare, sculptural, and slowly opening over weeks. It asks for deep water and patience, both in stock at this journal.
The branch reconnects the shelf to the actual year outside, which is the point of the whole arrangement. The jar was never decoration; it was a window, angled.
Published by the Fiolella journal.