Robert McKinnon smiling in a field of sunflowers under a blue sky

A garden grows where one was lost.

Robert spent a lifetime arranging beauty for other families.

He came to New York from Belize, opened his hands to a city that was new to him, and grew a celebrated career as a florist. He passed from duodenal cancer — a rare cancer most people have never heard of, with a research budget to match. Robert’s Garden of Hope is the family he left behind, planting back what was lost.

Robert McKinnon smiling in his New York flower shop, surrounded by fresh roses