LA Times on MSN24d
A rose’s journey from a Colombian farm to a parade float in Pasadena
Bob Mellano is supplying the flowers and foliage for 21 of the 39 Rose Parade floats. The Hearts rose is grown outside Bogotá in carefully controlled greenhouses.
Pasadena Star-News27d
With Jan. 1 on horizon, volunteers ramp up decorating Rose Parade floats
Frank Rounds, 79, of La Verne remembers watching a long-ago Rose Parade ... the floats. Hurt teaches art to special needs students, “and I’m always trying to find new ideas.
WOOD Grand Rapids on MSN16d
Local florist: ‘Countless hours’ spent on Rose Parade organ donation float
On New Year's Day, the work of a Grand Rapids area florist was included amid several flower-covered floats that traveled down a Pasadena, California street for the annual Rose Parade.