{"id":23728,"date":"2017-01-02T22:43:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2017-01-02T22:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T06:43:13","slug":"rose-floats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/rose-floats\/","title":{"rendered":"California Flowers Adorn Four Rose Parade Floats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/wknd.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>REAL California Milk did something special this year. They built a Rose Parade float using\u00a0flowers grown solely in the\u00a0California.\u00a0&#8220;Legacy of Generations&#8221; (shown in photos) is one of only four floats in the 2017 parade using solely California-grown flowers, according to California Cut Flowers Commission. The others included Miracle-Gro, FTD and Cal Poly Universities, which used donated flowers from\u00a0Sun Valley Floral Farms for &#8220;A New Leaf&#8221;. 300 tulips and 500 lilies grown in Arcata and 16,000 green ball dianthus and 500 irises grown at their farm in Oxnard created a spectacular display.<\/p>\n<p>Miracle-Gro&#8217;s vice president said its float,\u00a0&#8220;Everything&#8217;s Coming Up Roses,&#8221; offered a fitting tribute to\u00a0California&#8217;s farmers\u00a0who\u00a0supplied all the beautiful roses\u00a0for the company&#8217;s magnificent Rose Parade entry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 Kit-Cat Clocks\u00a0(always Made in the USA,) sounded an alarm when there were no\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/california-loves-flowers.html\">U.S.- grown red carnations<\/a>\u00a0for stripes on\u00a0a patriotic American Flag appearing on\u00a0that company&#8217;s Rose Parade float.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REAL California Milk did something special this year. They built a Rose Parade float using\u00a0flowers grown solely in the\u00a0California.\u00a0&#8220;Legacy of Generations&#8221; (shown in photos) is one of only four floats in the 2017 parade using solely California-grown flowers, according to California Cut Flowers Commission. The others included Miracle-Gro, FTD and Cal Poly Universities, which used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}