Photos: Float decoration shifts into high gear ahead of the 2025 Rose Parade

Brian van der Brug
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Pasadena, CA - December 26: Susie Fundter glues dried flowers on a tiger, part of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade at the Rosemont Pavilion on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 in Pasadena, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Susie Fundter glues dried flowers on a tiger, part of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance entry in the Rose Parade at the Rosemont Pavilion in Pasadena. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

Flowers, check.

Glue, check.

An army of volunteers has shifted into high gear to prepare 39 floral-covered floats for the 2025 Rose Parade on New Year's Day in Pasadena.

Two volunteers perch on a float and decorate flowers on it.
Two volunteers perch on a float and decorate flowers on it.

Volunteers Val Peacock, left, and Heath Swan work on the Love 2 Yeu float as employees and volunteers at Artistic Entertainment Services get floats ready for the Rose Parade.

Volunteer David Shaw cleans a box of seeds where he works on the City of Torrance entry in the Rose Parade.
Volunteer David Shaw cleans a box of seeds where he works on the City of Torrance entry in the Rose Parade.

Volunteer David Shaw cleans a box of seeds where he works on the City of Torrance entry in the Rose Parade.

Volunteers Margarita Robertson, right, and husband Sean Robertson work on a float detail.
Volunteers Margarita Robertson, right, and husband Sean Robertson work on a float detail.

Volunteers Margarita Robertson, right, and husband Sean Robertson work on the City of Torrance float.

A volunteer meticulously glues split peas onto a sign for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance entry.
A volunteer meticulously glues split peas onto a sign for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance entry.

A volunteer meticulously glues split peas onto a sign for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance entry in the Rose Parade.

Volunteers fill water vials for flowers at Rosemont Pavilion.
Volunteers fill water vials for flowers at Rosemont Pavilion.

Nathalie Chavez, right, joins a line of volunteers filling water vials, some of the nearly quarter of a million needed for flowers at Rosemont Pavilion, where employees and volunteers at Artistic Entertainment Services get floats ready for the Rose Parade.

Two girls press yellow seeds onto a float.
Two girls press yellow seeds onto a float.

Volunteers Kate Rome, left, and Sophia Grossi press seeds onto the Love 2 Yeu float.

Val Peacock works on the Love 2 Yeu float.
Val Peacock works on the Love 2 Yeu float.

Artistic Entertainment Services employees Teresa Bollier, right, and Heidi Linfield prep flowers in the flower tent.

A towering figure of Elvis Presley stands over volunteers gluing seeds onto the "Visit Mississippi" float.
A towering figure of Elvis Presley stands over volunteers gluing seeds onto the "Visit Mississippi" float.

A towering figure of Elvis Presley stands over volunteers gluing seeds onto a float at Rosemont Pavilion.

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