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Mary Wesley

Meet the engineer turned florist running Central District’s 1st Black-owned floral shop since 1984

Meet the engineer turned florist running Central District’s 1st Black-owned floral shop since 1984

In 1984, Mary Wesley, who is nicknamed “Miss Mary,” founded Flowers Just-4-U, the first Black-owned flower shop in the Central District of Seattle, to give lovely flowers to her community. In an interview with King5.com, Wesley said, “It was just something I loved to do and it was giving something back to my community. We…

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