Any flowers already in bloom likely took a beating during this week’s snowfall, but the flower count was scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
“(The snow) will be gone, and our flowers will be out,” said Bruce Carter of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce.
For seven days, anyone in Greater Victoria is invited to count the flowers anywhere in their municipality and log the results on the website www.flowercount.com for a friendly competition between municipalities.
In 2010, the non-scientific count tallied 21 billion blooms, of which Oak Bay claimed over half.