Flowers for Shreveport, LA

Stand on the Shreveport riverfront and you are looking at three states at once, more or less — this is the capital of the Ark-La-Tex, the stretch where Louisiana bleeds into Arkansas and east Texas, all of it hung on the Red River. The river organizes the metro: downtown and the casino towers on the Shreveport bank, Bossier City directly across the bridges, and the good residential arms running southeast down Youree Drive and Line Avenue into Highland, Broadmoor, and South Shreveport. Flower work follows those arms. The Willis-Knighton hospital network and Ochsner LSU Health drive a heavy get-well volume; LSU Shreveport off Youree feeds student and campus orders; the antique-district charm of Highland and the estates near the country club keep the anniversary and sympathy business steady. A driver here plans around one thing above all — which bridge to take, and when.

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