Flowers for South Yarmouth, MA

The flower year on this stretch of the Cape moves with the season more than the calendar. From June into September the summer houses fill up and Route 28 crawls past the motels and clam shacks toward the Bass River Bridge, and the orders shift to arrivals and thank-yous — a bouquet waiting in a rented cottage off Seaview Avenue, a hostess arrangement for a family reunion in West Yarmouth, birthday stems carried down to the Seagull Beach lanes. Come October the village exhales, the year-round rhythm takes over, and the requests turn to anniversaries for the couples who have wintered here for decades, get-well flowers heading fifteen minutes west to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, and sympathy work timed to the chapels. The Bass River threads the whole village, Nantucket Sound sits at the bottom of it, and the historic Judah Baker Windmill still marks the shoreline.

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