"Philippines: "Panagbenga floats should have used more live flowers"
Tourism Director Venus Tan said that it appears much work has to be done in this direction by way of reminders, among others, that using cut-flowers in the festival “doesn’t translate well to the (consciousness) of our children.”
During its launching in November 2015, the 2016 Baguio Flower Festival envisioned a more widespread use of the living flowers rather than short-lived cut-flowers. Even festival organizers vowed they, too, would be looking in the same direction.
The potted plants and flowers from the 25 flower floats that rolled down Session Road amazing hundreds of thousands of revelers could have been donated to schools “for the children to appreciate life and nurture it.”
“We have been looking at a 50/50 combination,” Tan said, “but the guidelines given to float participants this year was trimmed down to only 25 percent potted plants.”
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