Bighearted Blooms breathes new life into donated flowers

Bighearted Blooms is an organization from Cleveland, Ohio, that repurposes floral arrangements from events such as weddings or funerals and recycles them into smaller bouquets for residents in nursing homes and hospitals. The organization’s mission is to spread joy to individuals who need it by delivering them the recycled bouquets of flowers.

Read Cleveland.com’s story, below:

You could’ve knocked 95-year-old Judy Kramer over with a rose petal.

BigHearted Blooms did just that when the nonprofit group recently presented Kramer and other residents of the Willensky Residence at Montefiore in Beachwood with bouquets of flowers repurposed from the floral arrangements of weddings, funerals and other sources.

“Gorgeous flowers! Beautiful flowers!” Kramer beamed, as Frank Sinatra crooned “Luck Be A Lady” in the background.

Then, Kramer wondered why she was getting them. “Me? Is it [for] me?”

Absolutely. For her, and other elderly residents coping with Alzheimer's or dementia at the residence. And for people in area nursing homes, assisted living and veterans’ facilities, alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers, and other places where someone could use some flowers and a smile.

That’s been the mission of Bighearted Blooms since it was started in May of 2018 by Sue Buddenbaum, of Shaker Heights, who knows the value of a simple act of unexpected floral kindness.

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