CHERRY HILL, N.J. (CBS) — With social distancing tips in place across the Delaware Valley, flowers could also be an excellent present concept this Mom’s Day. For one Cherry Hill backyard middle, Mom’s Day preparations meant much less time specializing in floral shows and extra time making certain buyer security.

There are some massive modifications at McNaughton’s Garden Center this 12 months in comparison with final, all in an effort to maintain prospects secure.

“We constructed a brand new cashier sales space to increase our registers,” supervisor Tom Measey mentioned. “Staff additionally sanitize the carts and different surfaces hourly.”

Each hour they’re sanitizing the buying carts. They bought extra carts to allow them to do curbside pickups. There are usually 4 cashiers in a sales space however this 12 months solely two, and directional arrows are posted to encourage social distancing.

That is usually the busiest time of the 12 months for the backyard middle, based on proprietor Scott McNaughton.

“Gross sales are increased as a result of there will not be numerous shops to buy at,” he mentioned.

However all of the COVID-19-related purchases, from buying carts to masks, have added up.

To make up for that and to alleviate any buyer fears of being contained in the enterprise, McNaughton’s Backyard Heart has turned to on-line gross sales.

“It’s one thing we should always’ve finished years in the past. We’ve had over 800 orders because the stay-at-home orders started. That is one thing very new to us and we’re doing it with much less employees,” Measey mentioned.

The pandemic has actually modified the way in which the corporate has finished enterprise so has the climate and chilly temperatures.

The chilly climate this previous couple of days left some vegetation battered and bruised.

Nonetheless, the proprietor says they’ve weathered robust storms earlier than they usually’ll get by this one.

“We’re right here for patrons,” McNaughton mentioned.

For patrons, security is high of thoughts.

“After all it’s, we wished to get in earlier than all people else,” Risa Zablin mentioned.

The silver lining is most individuals positioned on-line gross sales and picked their flowers up on Saturday. They’ve 100 on-line orders and there are 15 left to be picked up.