Source: Cara Parks, BLOOMBERG, 7/15/21


April 9, opening day for Tiny Hearts Flower Shop in Hillsdale, N.Y., was a long time coming. Buckets of crimson ranunculus and towering boughs of pussy willow lined the walls, brightly awaiting local shoppers. Pails of blue anemones, grown a few minutes away in Copake, ranged from deep indigo to an ethereal gray-blue. Like so many American businesses, the shop shuttered while the pandemic raged. Owners Luke Franco and Jenny Elliott scrambled to figure out what to do with the 40,000 tulips planted...

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