Flowers For Save The Cowboy

This is the story of how Sunnydell Flower Farm was blessed with blooms and how those blooms made their way to Save The Cowboy.

Blooms on Sunnydell really took off beginning the end of July through our first hard frost in October.

Up until then we were challenged with what my son referred to as not enough thermal ( meaning not enough sunshine and warmth- mostly not enough warmth.)

It wasn’t that we didn’t have good germination, we did, we equipped the flower cottage with grow lights and heat.

The true challenges came once the sprouts were moved to live in the big wide world.

We also had strong sprouts, stems and plenty of buds-it just seemed to take a good while for the buds to turn into blooms.

As the weather settled down and Summer kicked in, so did the blooms.

All of our long Western Summer days brimming with sunshine and blue skies made me happy as well as the flowers on Sunnydell Flower Farm.

We got blooms! Big gorgeous, glorious blooms!

So, once I was satisfied that the blooms were true quality, bug free, strong stems, healthy and vibrant in color I started doing a little marketing.

I created bouquets, selected a few premium Wedding Venues then set up appointments delivering a few curated bouquets to the owners, while introducing myself and my business.

It was nerve-racking .

Yet , I was so enthused with the colorful dahlias, zinnias, amaranth, snapdragons, strawflowers, chocolate lace flower, scabosia, Texas Vintage Celosia …

I also felt in my soul that these blooms were exclusive, premium and top-notch.

Each blossom had been given the best care-pesticide free, organic fertilizer and relentlessly hovered-over.

So it seems that the pit in my stomach and nervousness seemed to subside.

I truly enjoyed meeting the owners of the wedding venues.

We actually were all small business owners, working to support one another, and everyone was so very kind.

This is where my story begins on being part of the fund raiser for Save The Cowboy.

I took two bouqets to Gina, owner and operator of Younger Ranch, a local wedding venue just about 5 miles from Sunnydell.

Younger Ranch is a real working cattle ranch with a gorgous Wedding Venue and equally gorgeous views.

On that paticular day Gina was also planning the annual Save the Cowboy fundraiser with Kathy Weber.

Kathy tirelessly organizes the fundraiser while also keeping up with all of the details; contributors, auction, food, decorations, music and of course the flowers.

Seems to me that since Sunnydell is guided by faith, God blessed me that day.

He blessed me in meeting really good folks-

Those good folks loved my flowers and we connected through God.

After some phone chats with Kathy, then a couple of vistits to Sunnydell Flower Farm she invited me to be the flower grower and florist for this event.

Oh yes, I squealed-but not into the phone.

My special flowers were going to be included in a very special event.

Talk about a precious moment for me.

Kathy had special vessels for the blooms, some were etched with Save The Cowboy Logo, others were heriloom pieces.

She had wrapped each one in twine and delivered them a few days before the event.

I think there were about 25 or 30- she requested that the arrangements had a 360 degree view as there would be folks sitting on each side of the tables.