Flowers for Blackshear, GA

Blackshear is the kind of county seat where the florist may recognize the recipient's name before you finish giving the address. Pierce County built around the courthouse and the old railroad, and the town still runs on those two poles — the square and the schools — with US-84 threading west toward Waycross and US-1 climbing north to Alma and the blueberry country. Flowers here follow the local calendar: prom and graduation in the spring, homecoming mums in the fall, anniversary roses carried to farm addresses off the Satilla River roads, and a steady line of get-well baskets riding the highway to the hospital in Waycross, where the county does most of its healing.

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