pov: you forgot it was her birthday

cut at six. at her door by three.

I'm Tess Marek. Petalworks is my little flower shop in Wichita, and this is its app. It shows what I actually cut this morning. You pick a window. One of my three riders takes it across town while the stems are still cool. Heaps easier than ringing me with wet hands.

Bench open Tuesday to Saturday, 8a to 6p (316) 555-0101 Wichita, KS

your note, in my handwriting. pencil first, then pen. no fonts were harmed.

9:41

Today's bench

Cut at 6 am, 14 left today

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Same day by 11 am 1 h 19 min left

All Bouquets Potted Dried

Pink and blush garden roses gathered in a loose hand-tied posy

$38

Rose Hill posy Rose, ranunculus

Blush and cream roses with bronze chrysanthemums, seen from above

$52

Sunday market Rose, bronze mum

White daisies and pink hydrangea spilling from a grey stoneware pot

$44

Clayworks jar Potted, stoneware

A branch of dried cream flower heads against a sage wall

$29

Harvest dried Strawflower, wheat

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Delivery details

Rose Hill posyKraft wrap, qty 1

$38.00

Deliver to

214 Maple Grove Ave, Wichita

Recipient

Nora Fenwick, ring the side door

Delivery window, Thursday

10 to 12

1 to 3

4 to 6

Gift note, printed on the card

Happy first week in the new house, Nora. Love, Jess

Keep it a surpriseThe rider won't call ahead

Posy $38.00Delivery $6.00Tax $3.30

Pay $47.30Apple Pay or card

send it to Nora

in the buckets this week

Tuesday, 7 am, I count the buckets. The app sells exactly what's in them. Your order prints at the bench and only then do your stems leave the cooler. Never the night before. We've all had a night-before bouquet. Not here.

Blush garden rose3 buckets
Bronze mum2 buckets
Cafe au lait dahlia1 bucket, the last of them
Ranunculus, pink and peach2 buckets
Eucalyptus and nerine4 buckets
Strawflower and wheat, driedon the wall hooks

no cosmos this week. Sunday's heat got them.

stapled to every order

Ticket 4117, stapled to the kraft

Wrap: Kraft paper and a clay ribbon, tied by hand.
Card: Your note, written while the tie is still damp.
Rider: A text with the rider's name when they leave, and another when they knock.
At the door: A photo of it in their hands or on the step, so you know it landed. Sometimes the photo is mostly thumb.

the ticket lives on my hook for a week, in case you text me 'did it get there??'

the weekly bench bunch

Whatever came in fresh, to the same door, every week. A surprise you're allowed to expect. Skip or pause in the app.

Weekly or every other week$32 a delivery

sympathy flowers

I drive these to Wichita funeral homes myself and check the time with the director first. They arrive before the service starts. Always.

Order by 9 am for same dayFrom $65

autumn wreath workshop

Two hours at my bench with cider, making a dried wreath to take home. I bring every stem. You keep the wreath, and the bits in your hair.

Sat, Oct 24, 5 of 12 seats left$68

Street map of Wichita, Kansas, with a ring drawn five miles around the shop near downtown, covering most of the city

Inside the ring: same day, $6 Out to 12 miles: next window, $12

$6: Wichita, Eastborough, Bel Aire, Park City. $12: Andover, Derby, Maize, Haysville, Goddard.

the ring, and past the ring

Inside the ring: same day, one of my three riders, $6. Past it: the next open window, $12, and the app tells you which window before you pay. The only surprise is the flowers.

cut that morning
If it's in the app, it's cut and sitting in the cooler. Mother's Day week, orders close early.
three riders, all mine
Marco has the east half of the ring. If there is a screen door, the flowers go inside it. A July doorstep gives them about twenty minutes.
your words, my pen
Your note goes on the card exactly as you typed it, in my handwriting, at the bench. Typos too, if you insist.

10 to 12order by 8 am

1 to 3order by 11 am

4 to 6order by 2 pm