Flowers for Escanaba, MI

Escanaba is the working heart of the central Upper Peninsula — a Lake Michigan port on Little Bay de Noc, built around the ore dock that still juts into the water and the long Ludington Street main drag that runs from the historic House of Ludington down toward the lakefront and Ludington Park. It's the U.P.'s third-largest city, a hub for a wide rural region, so the flower calendar here is busier than the population alone suggests: hospital get-wells at OSF St. Francis, sympathy work for a county's worth of families, U.P. State Fair season in August, and the everyday birthdays and anniversaries across town and up the shore to Gladstone. A driver working Escanaba can cover the downtown, Sand Point, and the neighborhoods off Lincoln Road in one loop, then run the short shoreline stretch to the neighboring bay towns.

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