Fresh lilies in Dubai
Lilies
Lilies arrive in bud and open in sequence over a week or more. Ask for buds rather than open flowers, and say where the bouquet is going: the pollen stains whatever it touches, and true lilies are dangerous to cats.
From roses and peonies to seasonal favourites — every flower has its own page, with same-day delivery across Dubai.
The questions people ask before they buy lilies in Dubai: how a stem opens, what to do about the pollen, and why a home with a cat needs a different bouquet.
Yes, seriously so. True lilies are poisonous to cats in every part — petals, leaves, pollen and the vase water alike — and the cat need not eat anything: brushing past an open flower and grooming the pollen out of its fur is enough.
The damage goes to the kidneys, so treat it as a same-day emergency and call a vet. Dogs get off more lightly, usually with an upset stomach. If the bouquet is going to a home with a cat, tell us when you order and we will build something else.
Cataleya is a Dubai flower studio: bouquets, boxes and mono bouquets are all arranged here by hand. You can order lilies online at any hour, and prices are shown on every product in the shop. The checkout finishes the job — delivery details in, order number out — and then either you pay by card on a secure Stripe page, or the money is handed over only once the lilies have arrived, in cash or by card. Ask a florist anything on WhatsApp (+971 54 396 9669).
Do say if you want them closed. We pick fresh lilies with the lowest bud just breaking colour and the rest still tight, so the bouquet goes on producing flowers for a week or more after it arrives.
Yes. Anything ordered before 18:00 goes out that day, with the last bouquets on the road by 20:00. Lily delivery runs across Dubai, and we go out to Sharjah and selected areas of Abu Dhabi as well. You get a photo of the finished arrangement before it leaves.
Lilies travel better than most flowers because they go out closed — which is how you want them to arrive anyway. The studio is open 10:00–20:00 daily and online orders are taken around the clock, so an order left overnight reaches a florist when the studio opens at 10:00.
Three things set it: the variety, the number of stems and the time of year. With lilies there is a fourth — the buds. One stem carries several, and a stem loaded with them is worth more than a short one with a couple, because those buds are what keep the bouquet going all week.
Each product in the shop carries its own price, so the quickest answer is to look there. For a size that is not listed, send the florist your budget on WhatsApp and we will tell you what it buys that week.
Entirely. A stem opens its buds in sequence, lowest first, and spreads that over a week or more, so a lily bouquet looks thin on the day it arrives and full on day four: you are buying a schedule of flowers rather than a fixed number.
The buds are what suffer first. Let the vase run low even once and the top ones yellow and drop instead of opening, so the stem finishes days short of what it was carrying. Sun through glass does the same. Scent builds in a warm, closed room, which is why oriental lilies belong in a hallway rather than a small bedroom.
Take the anthers out. A lily opens with six of them, loaded with rust-coloured pollen that stains skin, clothes and linen. Pinch each one off with a folded tissue as the flower opens, before the pollen goes powdery. You gain a day as well as a clean cloth — a pollinated lily goes over sooner.
If pollen has already landed on fabric, keep water off it: water sets the colour. Lift what you can with sticky tape, then leave the cloth in sunlight, which fades the rest.
