Flowers for Des Moines, IA

The capital reads as a working city more than a showpiece — gold dome on the east hill, insurance towers strung along the skywalk downtown, and neighborhoods that each keep their own character: Beaverdale's brick Tudors, the East Village lofts and boutiques below the capitol, Sherman Hill's restored Victorians, Drake's student blocks on University Avenue, and the older south side past the fairgrounds. Flowers move across all of it every day. The heaviest recurring traffic runs to the medical district on the near north side — MercyOne on Laurel, UnityPoint's Iowa Methodist and Blank Children's — where get-well and new-baby orders arrive in a steady stream, and the downtown offices generate their own lunchtime birthday and congratulations drops through the skywalk.

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