Canada: Where do all the royal visit flowers go?
Preparation started three days before the royal couple arrived in Vancouver. The Department of Canadian Heritage, which organizes the federal part of the trip, contacted the Provincial Health Services Authority to offer bouquets given to Kate and William while they were in Vancouver. The message was passed down to Leslie Arnold, who immediately said: “We would be pleased to accept a donation of flowers to patients.”
A few minutes after 5 p.m. on Sunday, around 100 bouquets of flowers of all shapes and sizes—some even from people’s personal gardens, says Arnold—arrived at BCCH. Waiting were the volunteers, the communications department and six members of the nursing staff. They set to work on the donations. Some large bouquets were broken apart, while smaller ones were combined into new displays.
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