My son thought he had ordered a live arrangement, but what I received was a combination of cut flowers and live. The live plants had black and broken tips and some of those plants were so dry that their leaves have already crumbled. There were four pink carnations that had brown edging on the flowers. The arrangement looked like a composite of all the crap that was leftover from Christmas; there were silver spray painted reeds and leaves, gold marti gras beads, a painted red seashell, a plaster birthday casting, rocks, orchid moss, green moss, and a big pink bow. The arrangement was received December 28, and it is ready for the trash today.