Flowers grown in South America, Holland and California are trucked every week to a nondescript, windowless building outside Fayetteville.
Inside a refrigerated room, workers sort the plants and stick them into buckets of water. The flowers and greenery then are shipped to florists across southeastern North Carolina, from Laurinburg to Wilmington and from Smithfield to Goldsboro.
Lihmil Inc., a wholesale flower supplier based in Kernersville, opened its first regional distribution plant at the Cumberland Industrial Center two years ago.
Chris Eason, who manages the center on Tom Starling Road, said about 75 percent of the flowers sold by florists in the Fayetteville area pass through his distribution center. Most end up at funerals and weddings.
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