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Burgess floral shop blooms with new name, new location

Jency Clopper has taken her love for “beautiful things” and turned it into a blossoming floral business at abloom.
Photo by Jackie Nunnery

Like many, Jency Clopper’s life was turned “upside down” when COVID hit. She had just moved back to the Northern Neck with her husband and new baby.

So what else does one do in times of uncertainty? Start a new business of course.

“I looked at it like what’s one more thing?” she said with a laugh.

That one more thing is abloom, a full service floral shop that opened in April at 702 Jessie duPont Memorial Highway, Burgess. Clopper owned Britt’s Garden for the past three years and when the opportunity of new space opened up, she said it also seemed the opportune time for…

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