Happy New Year

We wish everyone a year full of good health and happiness! Thanks for helping to make 2007 a great year! We look forward to another year of providing you with high quality fresh flowers!

Yesterday, you may have seen coverage of the 119th Rose Parade as a part of the Tournament of Roses celebration. This year, the theme was a "Passport to the World's Celebrations." Following is a list of some of the most popular flowers used in creating the floats (via HGTV):

• Rose - of course, about 1.5 million roses were used this year
• Carnation - full, economical, and hardy
• Chrysanthemum - plush and velvety
• Gladiolus - big and dramatic (used to petal* floats)
• Gerbera daisy - unique and fun
• Strawflower - dried and long-lasting (sometimes put in a blender to make confetti)
• Orchid - beautiful and colorful
• Lily - big and showy
• Statice - thin, papery, and comes in a brilliant blue
  
• Anthurium - interesting and long-lasting

The links above will bring you to the picture of the type of flower; they are combined into one graphic below. All images from Flickr and linked to authors above.

All images from Flickr and linked to authors above.

*One of the techniques used to create the floats includes "petaling" where the designers take individual petals of the flowers to cover a sculpture on the float.

To see some great photos of the floats, check out this website: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matsci/btf/Rose_Parade.html

In other bowl news - congrats to the Georgia Bulldogs for winning the Sugar Bowl!