Flowers for Chisholm, MN

Chisholm calls itself the heart of the Iron Range and has the monuments to back it up: the 85-foot Iron Man Memorial, third-tallest freestanding statue in the country, stands guard at the edge of town beside the Minnesota Discovery Center, and Longyear Lake sits right behind Main Street. This is a town rebuilt from ash — the 1908 fire took nearly all of it — and the flower orders here still track a mining-town rhythm: retirement bouquets when someone finally clocks out of the taconite plants, sympathy sprays through the old immigrant parishes, homecoming and graduation flowers for the school, and get-well arrangements running the ten minutes down to Fairview Range in Hibbing, where the Range does its hospital healing. Winters are long and the deliveries lean heavily on cheer-up and just-because stems that break up the gray.

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