Triumphant Return to the Rose Parade After 30 Years
In collaboration with Fieldwork Flowers, Vancouver’s Downtown Association, Tieton Homes, and Divine Consign, we brought the city’s first rose parade float in three decades to life.
Our float earned the prestigious Rose Festival Directors’ Award – Best Depiction of Volunteerism, showcasing the remarkable effort behind this achievement.
With over 5,000 locally sourced flowers and clippings from across our community, our float paid homage to the original Rose Parade float concepts. We are excited to continue this tradition into the future—stay tuned to our website for upcoming opportunities to get involved!
Float Description:
Hello beautiful Portland! With love from your neighbor in the apple state, Vancouver, Washington. We are honored to participate in your 117th Grand Floral Parade for the first time in 30 years. Our design inspiration draws from both the fruits of our Pacific Northwest landscape and Grand Floral Parade history to style floats with homegrown roses. We present a float that conveys a bountiful orchard above a field of flowers with the use of large scale apples, locally farmed florals, and foliage snipped from our own backyard. We hope you enjoy its sweetness. Please come over the river soon, neighbor, to visit Vancouver, the “city with a colorful past and bright future.” A special thank you to the Battle Ground Rose Float team for the use of their former Grand Floral Parade chassis – it’s the apple of our eye.
In the News:
The Columbian—Vancouver sends its first float in 30 years to Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade
KGW— Sneak peek at Vancouver float at Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade
KPTV— Rose Festival announces winning floats, bands, 2024 parade
Feature Image: Megan Arambul, center, lead floral designer on Vancouver’s Grand Floral Parade float, talks to Michael Walker, left, director of Vancouver’s Downtown Association, and Linda Glover, former Vancouver City Council member and director of Divine Consign. The float is Vancouver’s first in the parade in 30 years. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian)
