Flowers for Abingdon, VA

Abingdon does not read like a town this far into the Virginia mountains should. Its 20-block core is a National Historic District of brick sidewalks and Federal storefronts, home to the Barter Theatre — the State Theatre of Virginia, still running since the 1930s — and the head of the Virginia Creeper Trail, which pulls cyclists and leaf-season tourists off I-81 exit 17 all year. Deliveries here split between two worlds: the walkable historic center, where a bouquet is dropped a few doors from the Arts Depot or a Main Street inn, and the residential spread toward Meadowview and the hospital, where the driving stretches out. Johnston Memorial Hospital on Lee Highway keeps get-well orders steady, and the town's several churches and funeral homes fill out a regular sympathy calendar; a local designer who knows the one-way historic blocks and the hospital's floor rules gets it done cleanly.

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