Flowers for Walla Walla, WA

Tucked into the far southeast corner of Washington, ringed by wheat hills and the Blue Mountains, Walla Walla runs on two calendars — the college year and the wine year. Whitman College fills and empties the downtown blocks every fall and spring, while more than a hundred tasting rooms, from the Main Street storefronts to the estates out past the airport, turn release weekends and harvest into steady flower weeks. Between those swells the orders look like the valley itself: get-well bouquets to Providence St. Mary on Poplar Street, anniversary roses out the wheat-and-vine roads toward Dixie and Waitsburg, graduation flowers for Whitman and for Walla Walla University over in College Place, and sympathy pieces for the chapels in town. The sweet-onion country and the Oregon line at Milton-Freewater sit close enough to share the same afternoon loop.

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