As a child, Jasmin Deonauth somehow got it into her head that she wanted to be a successful businesswoman. The idea persisted through her early years and into womanhood and when her husband suggested to her that they open a flower shop in Washington DC, where they were residing, she jumped at the opportunity.
She recalls that it was a headlong plunge which met with the vigorous disapproval of relatives who queried her decision on the grounds that she “didn’t know a thing about flowers”. In fact, she still recalls the challenge of engaging expert wholesalers in Maryland on the matter of buying flowers in circumstances where she herself was a rank amateur. “Sheer confusion,” is how she summed up the experience. After that, she had to confront the challenge of putting together floral arrangements;
