Flowers for Covington, GA

Half the country has seen downtown Covington without knowing its name. The 1884 courthouse and the oak-shaded square have played the fictional Sparta of In the Heat of the Night, the Mystic Falls of The Vampire Diaries, and the small-town backdrop of the Dukes of Hazzard and a hundred other productions — locals call it the Hollywood of the South, and it is common for a florist here to route a delivery around a street the crews have closed for the afternoon. Film weekends aside, Covington runs like the Newton County seat it is: get-well flowers make the short trip to Piedmont Newton on Hospital Drive, anniversary roses go out to the Salem Road and Brown Bridge subdivisions that filled the county over the last twenty years, and Emory at Oxford — the college's original 1836 campus on the north edge of town — adds a steady thread of graduation, birthday, and congratulations orders.

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