Every day Trader Joe’s donates dozens of beautiful bouquets of flowers for me to take to senior living communities. The link below tells of the origin of The Flower Project.
https://storiesforseniors.wordpress.com/the-flower-project-2/

This is what happened today when we delivered flowers:

A social worker asked, “Do you have any orchids?” One of the staff accidentally threw away a resident’s vase of orchids and the resident is very upset. They didn’t look too lively to the aide but to the resident, they still were “fresh.”