Flowers for Columbia, TN

Columbia calls itself Mule Town, and it means it — the James K. Polk home stands a few blocks off the square, the courthouse anchors a stretch of restored storefronts that have turned into one of Middle Tennessee's better small-town downtowns, and every April the Mule Day festival packs the streets. That square is where the flower orders concentrate: the shops, the churches and funeral homes off West 7th and Nashville Highway, the county offices, and the old residential district around the Polk home. From there the town runs down to the Duck River and out along Bear Creek Pike and the Trotwood corridor toward Maury Regional Medical Center, which keeps the get-well volume steady all week. To the north, Columbia bleeds into the Spring Hill growth that has made this one of the fastest-expanding counties in the state, and a driver planning the afternoon weighs a quick square drop against a run up Highway 31.

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