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Meet your neighbor: Everything's rosy — Biggest day of the year for florist
Clarice Duggan’s Double D florist will deliver more than 1,200 roses for Valentine’s. (Jeff Farrell/The Mountain Press)
By JEFF FARRELL
SEVIERVILLE —This will be the biggest day of the year for Clarice Duggan, and not just because she’s a romantic. Duggan owns Double D florist, and Valentine’s Day is her single busiest day of the year.
A lot of people are counting on her to see to it that their sweethearts get roses or whatever flowers they prefer for the holiday.
“Valentine’s Day is the single business day of all,” she said. “By Monday, we will have delivered more than 1,200 roses for Valentine’s.” That’s not including other flowers and arrangements, she said.
She normally ash one delivery van on the road; today she will have four.
As if the Valentine’s Day arrangements weren’t enough, Friday she was also working on arrangements for a wedding set for the weekend. Between the anticipated last-minute calls over the weekend, and stragglers who try to make up by calling today or Tuesday, she figured she’d get to relax and see how much her business made on its busiest day late this week.
The only week that comes close, she said, is the week of Mother’s Day, but it’s typically more spread out than Valentine’s.
During ordinary times, she has a number of regular customers who buy from her for special occasions such as anniversaries and birthdays, or — her favorite — for no special reason at all. “I’ve got guys, I call them ‘Just Joes,’ that do it just because,” she said.
One tip she offered for choosing flowers, whether for Valentine’s or any other time — find out what kind of flowers the person you’re buying for really likes.
“If they know their wife or girlfriend has a favorite flower, they should cling to that,” she said. “Don’t do roses just because you think you’re supposed to.”
Duggan has been a florist for more than 30 years, she said. She’s been owned her own business for 17.
She hadn’t originally planned to go into the business; she said she found her talent by chance. She had gone to visit her cousin, a florist, to buy some flowers and was asked if she would come by and help wit the work. It just took off from there.
“I must have been a good student,” she said.
jfarrell@themountainpress.com
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