Flowers for Annapolis, MD

Commissioning Week is the high-water mark of the Annapolis flower calendar. For one week in late May the Historic Inns fill with Navy families, the Blue Angels rehearse over the Severn, and congratulations arrangements have to reach hotel front desks between road closures in a downtown that was platted in 1695. Even in an ordinary week, delivering here is a local art: Main Street parking is scarce, the Spa Creek drawbridge opens on demand for sailboat masts, and half the addresses that matter — City Dock slips, Eastport yacht yards, the offices ringing State Circle and Church Circle — reward someone who has threaded these streets for years. Get-well orders head out to Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center near Westfield Annapolis, and sympathy pieces reach services at Hardesty and John M. Taylor Funeral Home with the punctuality those occasions demand.

Other Maryland cities.