Liliane Lavack doesn’t know anybody who doesn’t like flowers. That’s part of why she normally moonlights as a pop-up florist with her twin sister Francine.
But in the time of the novel coronavirus, it’s anything but normal for this part-time florist as Mother’s Day approaches. She was busy Saturday, preparing bouquets for physically-distanced pick up from her Old St.
Vital home — typically, she and her twin would set up their Deux Cocottes Pop Up Flower Shop in the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, ready for walk-ups keen to stop and smell the roses.
Lavack’s is just one Winnipeg business adjusting to the new normal of COVID-19 while trying to find a way to help people celebrate a physically-distanced Mother’s Day. “I will literally place