Flowers for Colchester, VT

Colchester is the biggest town in Vermont that most people outside the state have never heard of — seventeen thousand residents spread from the Malletts Bay shoreline to the Fort Ethan Allen brick barracks, folded between Lake Champlain on one side and the Winooski River on the other. Flowers here move on lake time in summer and campus time in the shoulder seasons. A June week fills with wedding work along the bay and graduation bouquets at St. Michael's College; the rest of the year the orders are quieter and closer to home — anniversary roses to the ranch houses off Blakely Road, get-well arrangements crossing the river to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, sympathy pieces staged for services at the churches near Severance Corners. Because I-89 splits the town at exits 16 and 17, a driver reaches almost any Colchester address without touching Burlington traffic at all.

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