On this Valentine’s Day, local flower shops are blooming with business including the shop, Black and Blossomed. It’s a Black-owned business in Denver that has spent the past week getting ready for today. That included preparing more than 100 flower orders and making nearly a dozen deliveries of flowers.
Dr. Breigh Jones-Coplin is the owner of the business, and she said the shop is one of three Black-owned flower shops in Colorado. She started the business out of her home in 2020.
“I was going through my doctorate program and throughout the pandemic, I was just really having a lot of mental health concerns, just feeling unmotivated,” said Jones-Coplin.
During that time, she picked up a new hobby of arranging flowers. She began going to farmers markets and making arrangements for around her home. Then, her husband bought her a floral certification class.
“They teach you how to start a flower business and everything, and so I was just like, ‘a side hustle doing flowers shouldn’t be like that hard,’ like, ‘let’s do it,'” said Jones-Coplin.