ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Misty Vanderweele lives surrounded by magic: dahlias, red, pink, magenta with orange tips, sweet peas that cascade up a 6-foot-high arch that’s as tall as it is wide. Ranunculus or anenomes, florescent white color, the Pantone Color of the year Cloud Dancer, bleeding to a darker center.
“I think flowers — well, I know they speak to us in ways that words can’t,” Vanderweele said. “That’s why we give them for every occasion. For every single occasion, you can give flowers. For a new job, a death in the family, a new baby, birthdays, Mother’s Day.
I mean, flowers have been in our culture for hundreds of years, probably thousands of years, and I just think nature calls us. I think it’s something that we can find solace in…