Do you think I’d manage to take these flowers four hours on a train?

[Mum5net]

Sainsbury’s are selling the most amazing flowers -butterfly ranuncullus- and I’d like to bring some to my DSis. I’m visiting her by train on Friday. It’s four hours away. Fortunately I don’t have to change trains. How would I wrap or prepare these for travel? Her nearest Sainsbury’s is 30 miles away.

id just shove them in a carrier bag and try not to squash them 🤷‍♀️

Put in a cardboard box, close the lid

You should wing it

I would wrap the ends in wet kitchen roll and then in a plastic carrier bag and hope for the best!

These dont last well out of water. I wouldn't risk it - if you can give them a water source, you'd be fine.

ooh a cardboard box! It might be my preferred route because I can’t see the carrier bag being rigid enough. Might need to experiment before Friday . If in a carrier would you carry flowers pointing down or up for safety?

I just wouldn't, if the train's a nightmare it'll be a faff.

But if you really want to, a cardboard box either in a bag or with a string handle.

How would I manage a water reservoir in the box without ending up like papier-mâché? 🤦‍♀️

Well yes.
Just pretend you never saw the flowers and save yourself the hassle!

A plastic glass in the bottom of a wine carrier bag?

Wet kitchen roll, with cling film around if needed

This is what I would do

Mm… this is also a possibility

Actually might need to experiment this

I cant even be sure the Sainsbury’s near Highbury & Islington tube station will have them.

I'd go for wet paper towels in a sandwich bag, elastic banded rounded the bottom of the bunch. And then put them top up in a big study plastic bag.

Sandwich bag with ice cubes in sellotaped shut.

@Mum5net could you put them in a plastic sandwich bag and close as much as possible ? Or as previous posts have said wrap the stems in damp kitchen roll

Just been chatting DSis about my trip. She wants to drive to the town where nearest Sainsbury’s is for something else and thinks it ideal if I come with her . Result!

Thank you to everyone- it was going to be the sealed sandwich bag, the kitchen roll, the other carrier bag inside the folding 📦 box. But now I don’t need to …

Soak a cloth or lots of kitchen towel in water and wrap around the base ofvthe flowers. Place the bottom of the flowers and wet cloth in a freezer bag and place an elastic band around the bag to stop it falling off.