Though President Barack Obama’s three-day visit to Alaska this week didn’t bring him to the lower Kenai Peninsula, he got a scent of Homer when local flower grower Alaska Perfect Peony was picked to provide the official presidential bouquet at his Anchorage hotel, the Captain Cook.
“It was pretty exciting,” Alaska Perfect Peony owner Rita Jo Shoultz said on Tuesday. “It was quite the honor.”
Shoultz credited Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, with setting up the floral arrangement. Last year, Shoultz did a short video with Murkowski on Alaska’s growing peony agriculture industry. Murkowski helped arrange for Shoultz and her flowers to get clearance from the Secret Service.
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