I recently received a bouquet of red and yellow roses with lilies as a gift. I unpacked them immediately and followed the instructions to the letter. I noticed that the leaves of the All red roses were very dry and papery. There were two large pieces of single use plastic around the bouquet, but no water. This was highlighted on the packaging as saving precious resources, but the red roses had already wilted before unpacking, and the yellow roses , while reviving overnight in water, developed brown outer petals within two days. The bouquet was dead in less than five days, so the water used in its cultivation was wasted and the single use polythene wrapping wasted oil-based resources. This was a very disappointing bouquet, and I feel that there is a lack of research into the effect of transporting flowers without water which has led to a waste of the flowers, as bouquets from other suppliers which use water last for around two weeks.