Flowers for Davenport, IA

Davenport is the odd one on the Mississippi: it faces the river head-on with no floodwall, so downtown floods some springs and throws a riverfront festival most summers, and the flower routes bend around both. An arrangement built off Brady Street might go three ways in an afternoon — down to the Figge and the riverfront hotels, east into the brick lanes of the Village of East Davenport, or north up Kimberly Road toward the 53rd Street shopping edge where most of the newer subdivisions sit. Genesis Medical Center on East Rusholme keeps a steady get-well rhythm going, St. Ambrose University brings recital and graduation orders in from the near north side, and the two downtown mortuaries anchor the sympathy calendar.

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