Flowers for Lumberton, NC

Lumberton grew up as a landing on the Lumber River, the tea-dark blackwater stream that curls through Robeson County and gives the town its name and its rhythm. It became the county seat, then a Cape Fear region trade hub, and eventually one of the great crossroads of the East Coast — I-95 runs straight through, roughly the halfway mark between the Northeast and Florida, which is why the interchange fills with travelers and why the town has weathered more than its share of hurricane floods off that same river. All of that texture shows up in the deliveries. A florist here might route a sympathy standing spray to a service at Boles Funeral Home in the morning, a get-well arrangement to UNC Health Southeastern on Elm Street by early afternoon, and a birthday bouquet out toward the Lumbee communities near Pembroke before the light goes.

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