Business continues to flower for Palmer

FORT COLLINS – Spiro Palmer estimates an average week at Palmer Flowers & Decorating Gallery requires about 1,500 staff hours to operate the business.

In the week leading up to Mothers Day earlier this month, with the help of temporary workers, that figure nearly tripled.

It’s a rumor that Spiro Palmer was there for every one of those hours.

Just a three weeks earlier Palmer was feted in New Orleans as the 2005 National Retail Florist of the Year. But in the critical days leading up to the biggest day of the year for florists, Palmer was on the floor…