Silver Lake Greenhouse continues family entrepreneurial spirit

Suzanne Deking goes back and forth between helping three customers with a flower arrangement for an upcoming wedding and accepting a delivery for supplies.

Deking is the owner of the Silver Lake Greenhouse and Flower Shop, at 16803 Medical Lake-Four Lakes Road. She is in her second year of owning and running the greenhouse.

Deking is from Seattle where her parents owned a garden store when she was five years old. Her father also sold antiques and cars.

"My whole family has all been in business for themselves," Deking said. "Working for ourselves is in our blood."

Her first experience of sellin...