Serving our community

since 1944

Hello everyone,
Like so many other small businesses, Gritt’s Midway Greenhouse is feeling the effects of COVID-19. During the Easter season, we typically supply thousands of tulips, hyacinths, and Easter Lilies to area churches. As you’re probably aware, most – if not all - churches have decided to cancel Easter Worship Services to help prevent the spread of this virus. We fully support them in their decision to take this seriously. But in an effort to move these flowers, we came up with an idea that could help more than just our business.

We had been seeing that senior and assisted care facilities were forced to prohibit any outside visitors, which we understand must be difficult for those staying in the facilities not to see their families. Originally, we contacted two local area senior care facilities. Their locations had a total of 241 seniors. This is where "Send a Smile to a Senior" began. For $6.50, we opened up the opportunity for our community to send a Tulip, Hyacinth, or Easter Lilies to these centers which will be delivered the first week of April.

The goal is to positively impact as many as we can. The outpouring of support has been tremendous. As of Saturday, March 21st, we've had over 2200 flowers sponsored by people from all over the country. We still have thousands more flowers available and as long as the orders keep coming, we'll continue to find seniors in need of a smile.

If you would like to Send a Smile to a Senior, go to our online store HERE. When checking out enter your shipping address but know that the flowers won’t come to you but will be delivered on your behalf to a pre-approved senior facility.
Or to order over the phone call our office to purchase at 304-586-2449. Office hours are from 8AM-5PM Mon.-Sat.