Flowers for Tempe, AZ

Nothing sets Tempe's flower rhythm like the university at its center. Arizona State drops roughly seventy thousand students into a four-square-mile core, and the calendar bends to it: bouquets to dorms during move-in and midterms, congratulations arrangements that pile up through the sea of maroon-and-gold graduations, corsages for the formals, and the long-distance orders parents place from other states when they can't be here. Around the campus, Tempe is a full East Valley city — the Mill Avenue bar and restaurant strip, the glass towers rising along Tempe Town Lake and Marina Heights, the older bungalow blocks off Broadway, and the family cul-de-sacs of South Tempe below the US-60 in Warner Ranch and The Lakes. Sky Harbor's runways sit just across the river, so delivery drivers thread airport traffic and a permanent tangle of light-rail and game-day closures near the stadium.

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