The bouquets presented to medalists at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter
Games have been seen on televisions and in pictures around the world.
But the bouquets are more than just pretty flowers. A lot of thought and design
revisions went into making them, and they are helping to give people a second
chance.
The bouquets feature plants and foliage were chosen to represent British
Columbia and Canada and include various shades of green, from spider mums,
hypericum berries and broad leaf greens to loops of monkey grass, leatherleaf
fern and aspidistra leaves.
About 1,800 bouquets were made by two Vancouver-area florists.
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