A Family Legacy

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A Family Legacy

Although he sold the Reed’s greenhouses around 2000, Harry Reed continues to carry out his father’s legacy through his operation of Reed’s Flowers on Austin Avenue. Like his father before him, he has no intention of retiring anytime soon.

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By Amanda Sawyer
The story of Reed’s Flowers is as much about its founder, Albert Harry Reed, as it is about the shop. Reed emigrated from London, England, in 1908 at the behest of his brother, Tom Reed. The two Reed brothers worked side by side in Waco as growers…