TOPSAIL ISLAND, NC (WWAY)– “Instant tears, because it’s our business, these plants are our business,” said Shannon Weems, as she saw dead tropical house plants, flowers, and much more after a night of heavy snowfall.
“It was heartbreaking, for some of these plant, I have spent months taking care of them,” said Weems. “It’s almost like they are my children.”
Those members of her family belong to a mobile bus plant store called “Soulstice Botanicals”. Weems is the owner of the bus that travels all around the Cape Fear region selling plants, but that came to a halt when they saw their bus covered in snow on the outside, and freezing temperatures on the inside which killed more than 100 of their plants…