Flowers for Tulsa, OK

Oil money built Tulsa a downtown of zigzag Art Deco crowns, and the city that grew around it still splits neatly along its shopping streets: Cherry Street's restaurant row on 15th, Brookside running down Peoria, Utica Square under its old elms, the Gathering Place pulling everyone to the riverbank on weekends. Flowers move along those same lines. The Utica corridor alone holds two major hospitals — Hillcrest and Ascension St. John — with Saint Francis anchoring 61st and Yale, so get-well arrangements make up a big share of any Tulsa florist's afternoon. Add University of Tulsa move-in weeks, Philbrook garden weddings, and the steady trade of anniversary roses to bungalows in Florence Park, and the vans stay busy from cutoff to dusk.

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