Flowers for Holliston, MA

Holliston is a quiet MetroWest town that gave up its railroad and turned the right-of-way into one of the best things about it — the Upper Charles Trail now runs where the old freight line did, straight through the center past the shops on Washington Street and out toward the neighboring towns. The heart of it is small and walkable: Blair Square, the town hall and library, the old fire station, and the Mudville corner near the Sherborn line that locals still call by that name. From there the town spreads into wooded neighborhoods, the Lake Winthrop shoreline, and newer subdivisions edging toward Hopkinton and Milford. Flower deliveries here are less about traffic than about geography — the long lanes and back roads reward a florist who actually knows the town rather than a route entered cold into a phone.

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