Here's What Happens When You Give Florists Thousands Of Flowers And 48 Hours In An Abandoned House

Late one evening this month, a woman appeared in the second-story window of an abandoned house overlooking a Detroit freeway. A spotlight illuminated her face as she flung handfuls of white petals down to the crowd gathered outside a venue that felt more like the setting of a dark fairytale than a fundraiser. Branches of bright yellow forsythia hung over the doorways, catching visitors' hair as they walked through the home, now owned by florist Lisa Waud. Grape hyacinths sprouted up through the ...