Downtown Market - 45 S. French Broad Ave. in Downtown Asheville

Ellen Shaw and Lucy Beard of Second Bloom will set up at the Downtown Market receiving donations of all types of flowers to make and then deliver bouquets to Mothers in area nursing homes on Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 9th.  Simply bring by as many flowers as you can or collect. Get them from your yard, your neighbors, your church, your local grocery store, left-over from events you attend. Just ask for them wherever you see flowers on a regular basis, you’d be surprised how easy it is to get flowers donated for this caring cause!  Thank you,

Ellen Shaw

ellen@secondbloom.org

828-242-0254  or 828.252-4232

We were fortunate to have some assistance with our flowers.  Check out who joined us.

After we made all our arrangements, we joined Margaret and her husband and we got to see a beautiful arrangement of roses from their gardens. Flowers today were from both The Fresh Market and EarthFare and were as beautiful as ever.  Lots of roses, but none that compared with what we saw in the Patton’s room!

Flowers from both weddings, and more even from The Fresh Market, were distributed to Care Partners Rehab Hospital (shown here), as well as the Solace Center, McCune Assisted Living Center and The Laurels of Summit Ridge.  At Rehab we had a Hands On Asheville project and Clare and Leslie showed up to help.  Clare and I did the pick up and managed to get them all in the pickup.  And you can see some of the arrangements on the cart as Leslie wheels them around to the rooms at Rehab.  They give the patients and the staff a real boost.  To see more photos and to find out who are new hairy volunteer is, click here.

Here’s a great photo of Jackie and Rich driving our newest volunteer Brewster who’s in the back seat looking very proud of the four buckets of flowers he just picked up from The Fresh Market.  A little hard to see the flowers, but they weren’t as important to document as his photo is.  When I talked to Louise at Fresh Market the next day, she told me she’d met Brewster, that he’d strolled in like he owned the place.

But we had two other volunteers with us today as well, Clare and Leslie.  Clare’s volunteered several times but this was Leslie’s first.  She found us through Hands On Asheville and knew Clare, who headed up the Sunday morning project for Second Bloom.  She claimed she had no talent, but she made some beautiful arrangements.  Check out the pretty vase of roses and greens, flowers that Brewster had collected.  And find out more about our Sunday morning.

Clare, Ellen and Loretta led up the Second Bloom Volunteer Squad for the Rhododendron Brigade’s donation of 100 dozen roses from their ball the night before.  Wow!  Many people enjoyed these flowers for days to come.  Find out where they went on this bright Sunday morning.

I was out of town but heard from every facility about how gorgeous the roses were.  What a generous donation that spread joy to literally hundreds of residents and their families.

The hydrangeas, roses, and other long stemmed flowers were given to Golden Living Center on Beaverdam Road in Asheville.  One wedding that provided beauty and enjoyment to over 100 residents!