Roses can come in many colors and styles. They also can be organized in many different ways. This includes dozen bouquets, singles and in boxes. When valentines day lands on a Tuesday it makes the roses more expensive and they are bought up faster.
Roses are very fragile so they have to handled with care and shipped quickly. They ship roses in refrigeration using airplanes because boat is to slow. The reason they are shipped from other countries is because the conditions that roses need are not good enough in the United States. The one place that is surprising really good at producing roses is Tyler Texas, the rose capital.