Delivering smiles: Twin Falls florist gives tulips to the elderly | Local

But folks didn’t quit when the goal was reached.

One recent evening, Carr, a Twin Falls florist, requested $1,000 in online donations to give tulips to the elderly in town.

“I was delivering yesterday for ‘Tulip Tuesday’ to Brookdale (Senior Living),” she explained in her request, “and when I walked through the doors with my one little bunch of tulips, two of the residents reached out to me asking if they were for them.

“I was heartbroken. I would like to deliver tulips to as many of the nursing homes as I can.”

Carr, who owns Blush Floral, surprised the 70 residents at Brookdale with bundles of tulip blooms in every color.

“The donations were well beyond what I hoped for and this will be just the first stop,” she wrote in a Facebook update on the project. “The smiles today were incredible.”