I bought theses flowers for my other half. When they arrive they was in dying need of water the rose petals had dried out quite badly as well as other leaves. Once they were in water they look quite nice the only problem was that it took well over a week for the other flowers to actually start flowering and by the time the roses had mostly died so I was a little disappointed as theses were not cheap supermarket flowers. I also followed the instructions that were included with the flowers step by step. Remember guys and girls what you see in the picture online to what you are geting delivered are two completely different things