Flowers for Young Harris, GA

Everything in Young Harris orbits two things: the college and the mountains. Young Harris College — a small liberal-arts campus with roots back to 1886 — puts most of the town's flower calendar on its academic one. September brings move-in bouquets and welcome baskets, spring recitals at the Fine Arts building draw congratulations arrangements, and the May commencement on the quad clears the coolers of anything celebratory. Above it all stands Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia, and the ridgelines that fold toward the North Carolina line a few miles north. Between campus orders, deliveries thread out to Lake Chatuge cabins, retirement homes along Highway 76, and get-well work carried to Chatuge Regional Hospital over in Hiawassee, where the county goes for care. The scenery is the draw and the challenge at once — a cabin address can mean the last quarter mile is gravel and switchbacks.

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