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Written for chief stewardesses, pursers and captains. No trends, no inspiration boards. The things that decide whether flowers reach a boat in good condition, from thirty years of getting it right and occasionally wrong.

LogisticsGetting Flowers Through Customs to a Yacht: A Port by Port GuideVery little has been written about this, which is strange, because it is the single reason fresh flowers fail to reach yachts. Here is what actually happens at the border, country by country.PracticalHow to Get Flowers Delivered to a Yacht, Anywhere in the WorldType the question into a search engine and you get sales pages. Here is the actual answer, written for the person who has to make it happen.CaribbeanWhat You Can Buy in the Caribbean in Winter, and What Has to Be Flown InThere is a claim in circulation that fresh flowers do not work in the tropics. It is repeated most often by people selling preserved ones. Here is what is actually true.FlowersWhich Flowers Survive Long-Haul Air Freight, and Which Never DoNot a list of what is pretty. A list of what is still worth having after two days in a box, from someone who has opened a lot of those boxes.PlanningWinter Yacht Flowers: What to Settle Before the Boat Leaves the MedMost winter flower problems are decided in October, not in January. Ten minutes of answers now and every delivery after that is routine.FlowersFlowers for an Atlantic Crossing: What Lasts, and How to Keep ItTwo or three weeks at sea, no florist, and a boat that moves. Here is what is still worth looking at when you arrive, and what is not.CaribbeanChristmas and New Year Flowers in St Barths: Book in OctoberSt Barths has no cargo airport, so everything clears at Sint Maarten on a permit granted before anything is bought. Plan it once this month and every order afterwards takes about three days.FlowersOrchids on a Yacht: Keeping Phalaenopsis Beautiful at SeaThe orchid is the plant crew are handed most often and told least about. Here is how to keep one in flower for months on a boat that moves, runs cold air and changes climate every few weeks.ShowsFlowers for the Antigua Charter Yacht ShowBrokers walk through dozens of boats in a few days, and the table is what they remember and photograph. Here is how the flowers for show week are actually planned.PracticalFlowers on the Charter Preference Sheet: What to AskMost preference sheets ask for favourite flowers and nothing else, which tells you almost nothing useful. Here are the questions that actually change what arrives on board.PlanningChristmas on a Superyacht Far From a FloristThe Christmas brief usually arrives in the first week of December, by which time the paperwork for the flowers should already have been done. Here is what the season actually needs and when to put it in motion.WorldwideYacht Flowers in the Maldives: What to Fly InVery little that belongs in a yacht interior grows in the Maldives, and the resorts have already bought most of what lands. Here is what that means for a boat, and what to do about it in good time.

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