Valley View Flowers overlooks the town and countryside of the Albion area where rows of blossoms stretch across Lori and Brad Warner's front and back yards. This U-Pick flower garden sprouted up because the empty nesters wanted to spend more time together.
"She'd be in the sewing room and I'd be in the alfalfa field, and we'd come home and we'd look at each other and be like, 'What did you do?'" said Brad Warner, co-owner of Valley View Flowers. "And we'd have nothing in common."
During the COVID-19 pandemic, they started planting flowers in a greenhouse until they found themselves talking about flowers 12 months out of the year. "Then we started buying seed by the pounds," said Lori Warner, co-owner. "We started scattering it outside, and we ended up probably a mile of rows all put together that year."
But it's not all daisies and dahlias. After opening their U-Pick flower and tasting garden, the Warners weathered through five hailstorms in three years. "Up on the hill here, things take a beating," Lori said.
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