The power of flowers:

Lifetime Cheney resident Sue Hines has always been around flowers. Her great-aunt and uncle started Chet's Flowers in the 1940s; her grandmother grew a rose garden so prolific that it was often called "mom's arboretum."

And Hines mother eventually got into the act, replacing her vegetable garden with a veritable field of gladiolas.

So it was no surprise then that when Hines eventually discovered she had a creative streak, while in New York as her husband and childhood sweetheart attended West Point, that it came in designing floral arrangements.

And it's also no surprise Hines has chosen to sh...