Flowers for Pikesville, MD

Everything in Pikesville eventually touches Reisterstown Road — the delis and kosher bakeries, the synagogues between Old Court Road and Seven Mile Lane, the Maryland State Police headquarters on the grounds of the 1816 arsenal, and Sol Levinson & Bros., the funeral home most of Jewish Baltimore turns to. That makes flower routes here unusually predictable: north-south along the corridor, with detours into Sudbrook Park's curving Olmsted-designed lanes, the garden apartments off Slade Avenue, and the country-club edges by Woodholme and the Suburban Club. Sympathy carries its own etiquette in this town — many Levinson services go flowerless by tradition, so locals send arrangements or plants to the family's home during the week that follows, and a florist who understands that difference is worth keeping.

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