Flowers for Yakima, WA

Ask a Yakima florist about their year and they will tell you it moves with the fruit. Cherry bloom in spring, then the long hot stretch when dahlias and sunflowers take over the coolers, then a fall rush of harvest weddings out among the hop trellises and vineyard rows that ring the valley floor. The town itself stretches north-to-south between the ridges — downtown clustered around Yakima Avenue and the old brick of the Historic District, the orchard-edge neighborhoods climbing Nob Hill, the newer West Valley subdivisions out toward Tieton, and Terrace Heights sitting across the river with its own commute. Get-well orders point almost everywhere toward Virginia Mason Memorial on Tieton Drive; anniversaries and birthdays scatter to the ranch houses and cul-de-sacs; and a graduation week at Yakima Valley College or the high schools can empty a cooler by Friday afternoon.

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