Flowers for Vancouver, WA

Vancouver has spent two centuries being mistaken for the other one up in Canada, but this is the Washington city — the oldest non-Native settlement in the state, grown up around the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Vancouver and now spread along the north bank of the Columbia opposite Portland. The flower map traces that spread. The rebuilt downtown Waterfront and Officers Row draw event and anniversary work; Uptown Village and the Central Park blocks send the everyday birthday and thank-you orders; and the long northern suburbs — Hazel Dell up Highway 99, Salmon Creek around the WSU Vancouver campus — plus Cascade Park and Fisher's Landing to the east account for most of the residential volume. Running through all of it is a heavy line of get-well deliveries to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, the region's main hospital off Mother Joseph Place.

Other Washington cities.