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Monday, February 08, 2010
Olympic Bouquets, Green with Piety
After much deliberation, the Vancouver olympic committee has settled on a monochromatic bouquet for the 1800 winners. O (what’s with you?) Canada!
The winner after 23 attempts: the design chosen for the 2010 Olympic bouquet.
Photo: Bill Keay, for Canwest News
The “green-gos” have spoken. Last week, the powers that Olympicize introduced the bouquets that winners in the 2010 Winter games will wave.
“The Olympic bouquets are a soft, elegant green, with five B.C.-grown spider mums in the centre, surrounded by layers of monkey grass, aspidistra leaves and hypericum berries imported from Ecuador.”
What do you think?
We reported awhile back that June Strandberg, partnering with Margitta Schulz of North Vancouver, had won the contract to design and make the games’ 1800 victory bouquets. Strandberg’s Just Flowers, based in Surry, hires ex-convicts and trains them for livelihoods in floristry, giving her a conscionable advantage over the competition.