Feb. 12, 2010 – Oakville based Ada’s Flowers has secured an exclusive contract to supply all the silk floral displays for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2010 Olympic Games in Whistler, British Columbia.
Due to be shipped the week before the Games open, the displays - all designed by proprietor Suzy Caiger and her team - depict the 13 Canadian provinces and territories and will decorate the entire Pavilion which is open to athletes and visitors: “We worked closely with the Pavilion’s exhibition designers to create a unique and realistic display that reflect the beauty and diversity of each province,” explains Suzy Caiger.
However, identifying and sourcing the flowers ‘of Canada’ was not an easy task as many of them are native only to specific areas of the country: “The Ontario Provincial flower is the Trillium (trillium grandiflorum), a unique three petal white flower that only grows along the floor of our woodlands, but it is not available in a silk flower,” pointed out Suzy, “so the team at Ada’s flowers hand made all the Trillium’s for the show.”
The Trillium was not the only flower hand crafted by Ada’s. The Yukon Territory’s Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), a beautiful dark pink flower that earns it’s name because it is one of the first plants to grow after a fire and the Newfoundland Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) which fills with water and traps insects are just two species the team had to create in just 2 weeks to meet the tight build deadline.
Whilst none of the Pitcher plants have flies in them, it is the only detail that has been overlooked by Ada’s, as Suzy sums up: “We have done our very best to capture the very essence of each provincial flower, we wanted them to be recognizable and as true to the real thing as possible. We are both honored and proud to have been chosen for the 2010 Games.”
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