Flowers for Augusta, GA

Most of the year Augusta's flower orders read like any river city its size — get-well arrangements to AU Medical Center on 15th Street, sympathy sprays for the churches around Summerville and Olde Town, birthday bouquets to the west-side subdivisions in Martinez and Evans. Then April arrives and the whole operation tilts toward Washington Road. Masters week turns the west side into an international small town: hospitality houses along West Lake and National Hills need daily fresh arrangements, corporate boxes want centerpieces waiting, and the shops that survive it are the ones that mapped the closures and rented the extra vans in February. It is the single busiest stretch on this page, and the florists here have run it for decades. The rest of the calendar is quieter and closer to home, most of it clustered in the 30907 and 30909 ZIPs where the county's population has drifted west toward Columbia County.

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