Flowers for Holden, MA

A common Holden order looks like this: a daughter in Boston sends her mother a birthday bouquet, wants it on the Main Street doorstep before dinner, and Edith's Flowers has it there by mid-afternoon. That's the shape of the town — a Worcester bedroom community of leafy subdivisions strung along Route 122A, close enough to the city for a hospital run and far enough up toward the Wachusett Reservoir to feel like its own place. The center clusters around Main Street and the Damon House; the neighborhoods spread off Reservoir Street, Salisbury, and Shrewsbury Street toward the four villages — Jefferson, Dawson, Chaffins, and Quinapoxet. Most of the delivery week is residential: birthdays, anniversaries, new-baby flowers, and the steady traffic of get-well arrangements heading down 122A to UMass Memorial and Saint Vincent in Worcester.

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