Flowers for Holland, MI

Every May the whole town turns over to tulips — Tulip Time fills 8th Street with parades and wooden shoes, and the florists here have been arranging around that rhythm for generations. But Holland is a real working town the other eleven months too: the heated downtown sidewalks that famously never ice over, Hope College's brick campus a few blocks in, the industrial edges, and the drive out to Lake Macatawa and the Big Red lighthouse at Holland State Park. When a delivery order comes in, the local shops read it fast — a dorm at Hope, a room at Holland Hospital on Michigan Avenue, a lakeshore address up in Waukazoo. That local read is the whole difference between a fresh hand-tie and a courier box left at the wrong door.

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