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(Courtesy Holly Haveman/Kennedy’s Flower Shop) Countless hours went into putting the float together, Haveman said, with like cutting all the flowers and getting them into water tubes. Her team ...

A retired florist from Burke, South Dakota, was in Pasadena, California, over Christmas and the New Year to help decorate four of the floats that were in the 137th Rose Parade (Jan. 1, 2025). Dave ...

Evergreens like fir, holly, ivy, and mistletoe that thrived in winter despite the darkness and the cold were favourite decorations for the Christmas season. Illustration by Birket Foster for the ...

Floatfest: A Rose Parade Showcase, is open on January 1, 2, and 3. This 2-mile display features Rose Parade floats after their appearance on the parade route. Each year, nearly 70,000 visitors go ...

For 12 years, Sue Sundberg led the decorating of the iconic ... effort to complete last year’s floats and watching the parade. She was 72. In tribute to her years of dedication, volunteer decorators ...

As they have for the last four years. They get to the Phoenix Decorating Company warehouse at 8 a.m. They watch as the first floats are rolled out into the open. They revel in the colors ...