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The Olympic flowers presented at the Podium
3/6/2010 at 1:37 AM
A fascinating story you may not have heard . . .
The (odd-looking?) bouquet of flowers presented to each medallist on the podium – 1,800 in all – are all the same, made up of green spider mums with hypericum berries surrounded by leather-leaf fern, monkey grass, and aspidistra leaves.
What’s really interesting?
They’re all made by Just Beginning Flowers, a non-profit company in Surrey B.C that employs women who are just out of prison, abused, fighting addiction, or with special needs, and teaches them how to be florists.
Another winning story from the Olympics.