Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave’s On the Ground Battle Creek series. We thought about expanding our building in Urbandale, and that was about the time construction costs skyrocketed,” she says. Like the Urbandale property, their most recent acquisition also had a space that the couple turned into a meeting area. A telephone call to her mother in Battle Creek set her life on a course she never expected to follow. A carnation panda, one of the many carnation creatures created by Plumeria Botanical Boutiques.