Farmers Insurance (#3)
Float Theme: Mother Nature Farmers Insurance deals with Mother Nature and the impact of her varied moods every day, and then restores nature's mishaps and gets their customers back where they belong. On Farmers' float, a 45-foot-tall Mother Nature is surrounded by several woodland creatures, offering parade viewers a tranquil and appealing natural scene. A wise owl perches on Mother Nature's shoulder, butterflies create a living garland in her hair, and squirrels, a bunny and a fawn gather around her feet. Scores of live doves of peace are released from the base of the float as it glides along the parade route.
FTD (#5)
Float Theme: Jewels of Nature
Nature's renewal is celebrated as majestic butterflies awaken and soar above gardens bursting in springtime color and pageantry. Caterpillars leisurely bask in trees fashioned from thousands of cascading roses and orchids, while 35 lively butterflies, with wingspans up to 13 feet, form an overhead canopy of yellow and orange. Featured butterflies include Monarchs, Swallow Tails, West Coast Ladies and Orange Sulphurs. Hummingbirds flank the trees as they drink nectar from oversized sculptured Asiatic lilies.
The gardens showcase the largest variety of springtime flowers ever featured in the Rose Parade, including 45,000 roses plus tulips, daffodils, irises, tuberoses, forsythia, lily of the valley, calla lilies, hydrangea, peonies, delphinium, alstroemeria, snapdragons, bouvardia, freesia, nerine lily, viburnum and larkspur. The flowers come from six continents and are imported from as far away as Africa, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Holland, Columbia, Ecuador, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Hawaii. Now in its 54th year in the parade, FTD (the official floral company of the Tournament of Roses) has garnered 17 awards in the last 19 years.
Kaiser Permanente (#64)
Float Theme: A Thriving Imagination
Reading is the key to unlocking the world to one's imagination, and what better time to start that imaginative voyage than with a good-natured journey with Mother Goose. Taking flight from floral book pages, Mother Goose soars high over rose-laden clouds and a vivid rainbow. Popular children's nursery rhymes are depicted in charming vignettes throughout the float, including Hickory Dickory Dock, The Cat and the Fiddle, Little Bo Peep, Jack and Jill, Three Blind Mice, Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horner and Row Row Row Your Boat.
Gardens of 50,000 roses, including pink Laguna, Titanic and Peckoubo, frame old-fashioned English storybook gardens of peonies, delphiniums, larkspurs, liatris, French tulips, Oriental lilies, hydrangeas and lilacs. Over 30,000 roses and irises create the rainbow. The highly animated float features Mother Goose raising and lowering her wings to a height and width of 28 feet. The cow jumps over the moon, the cat and dog dance to fiddle music and the mouse runs up the clock.
Kiwanis International (#94)
Float Theme: Together We Can
Kiwanis shows that together we can have a wagon full of fun on an old-fashioned hayride along the Rose Parade route. Kiwanis believes that together we CAN — Climb higher, Achieve success and Nurture excellence — as they work together to provide greater service to community and youngsters.
Gigantic sunflowers, a sculpted palomino horse and lots of real hay provide the natural setting of the float. The horse at the front of the float is decorated with ground coffee beans, strawflower and pampas grass; the tack is covered with black seaweed and silverleaf. The wagon is created with strawflower, clover seed and ground rice; the wagon is loaded with roses, carnations, gourds, pumpkins, corn, carrots, bell peppers and wheat. The sunflowers at the rear of the float are made of real sunflowers, and the deck features grass sod, roses, daisies and carnations.
La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association (#84)
Float Theme: Self-Built Float
The theme "Self-Built Float" combines not-so-wild animals in their natural habitat working together to produce a float for the enjoyment of others. The theme also reflects the status of La Cañada Flintridge, one of only six float sponsors who design, build and decorate their own entry. The float depicts a group of animated penguins struggling to create a giant root beer float, while a walrus waits to serve their creation. Soda shop music from an unseen jukebox accompanies their effort. This is an unassisted triple-play on words: nature equals animals, good nature equals smiling cooperation toward a goal and float equals Rose Parade float or root beer float.
The penguins are made of onion seed and sweet rice bodies, dried carrot feet and Indian lentil beaks. The walrus wears naturally grown beige cotton, with a pampas grass mustache, sweet rice tusks and carnation jacket. In all, 25,000 chrysanthemums, 6,000 carnations, 6,000 roses, and gladioli, orchids, irises and silverleaf stalks, combine with 500 pounds of seeds and dry materials and 100 pounds of naturally grown beige cotton to decorate this lively float.
