Flowers for Harrisburg, IL

Harrisburg is the seat of Saline County and the last real town before the land folds up into the Shawnee National Forest — drive southeast on the back roads and you reach the Garden of the Gods, sandstone cliffs and hardwood ridges that pull visitors down every fall. This is old coal country, Little Egypt, where IL-13 and US-45 cross at the courthouse square and the rhythm of the year runs through the schools, the harvest, and the hospital. Flowers here are personal and local: anniversary roses for farms out toward Galatia, homecoming mums for the high school, get-well baskets carried to Harrisburg Medical Center on Feazel Street, and sympathy sprays for services held in town. When leaf-peepers and hunters fill the Shawnee lodges each autumn, a trickle of celebration and thank-you orders follows them down the ridge roads.

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