Minneapolis florist starting to bloom again after surviving drought from Operation Metro Surge

When the co-founder of an international floral show, doing its first exhibit at the Galleria in Edina, contacted Donesha Benson, owner of Urban Blooms in Minneapolis, Benson didn’t know what to think.

“I definitely had to do some digging,” Benson recalled. “I saw the mannequins, and it wasn’t something I had done before. I didn’t know if I could pull it off.”

The opportunity intrigued Benson and came at a good time, as her business was hurting from the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota earlier this year…

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