Growing Zones and Broken Hearts

…some plants and relationships can’t survive

My mother loved pink azaleas. They had to be a particular shade of pink to be just right. Kind of a salmon color—not too pinky. On her birthday and holidays, Boesen’s the Florist would deliver just the right plant, with just the right color—unless there was a new clerk handling the order, someone who didn’t understand that the pink had to be exactly rig…