Sunflower Steve is on all my favorite UA-cam channels! Thank you for having him on, Erin. I’m so very excited about his partnership with Floret. Congratulations Steve!
@Flower Hill Farm Now if we could only get you to come over to Wisconsin....😁I think my little garden is right in the middle of Erin and Steve would love to host all three of you anytime😁Just saying 😉
I love that Steve said he created this sunflower, then quickly said, “well, me and God”. Glad God gave Steve creativity and passion to keep going 13 years. Also that Steve gave the glory to God. Love your work and a blessing to hear about it all. Fascinating guest Erin, thanks for sharing Sunflower Steve with us.
I couldn't have said it better so allow me to piggyback on your comment, Marti, if you please. This was fascinating. Erin, thank you for featuring this gentleman and his work. Sunflower Steve, I've offered a prayer for your continued success in flower breeding and growing. ~ Lisa
Erin, Steve was a fascinating guest, and his enthusiasm was contagious! I loved listening to him talk about his chosen career. He made me laugh out loud when he spelled out 'H O A R Y verbena. His enthusiasm for creating new varieties of flowers was delightful. I got a kick out of you saying that he was in your phone as Sunflower Steve, and he came right back with, 'and you're in my phone as Impatient Erin. What a fun video, I loved it! ~Margie
As I have said on other channels, Steve is a perfect example of the American Dream! He is amazing and deserves many rewards for all his efforts. His enthusiasm is infectious. Congratulations, Steve and Floret! Wishing you much success!!! I just love how this community of plant lovers is so supportive of each other. 💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚
Steve, you are so personable and easy to like! All your hard work is paying off, wish you the best. Love it when you show up on some of my favorite gardening UA-cam channels.
Love that Steve made his way for a visit! He’s visiting all my favorite groups! As stated on Flower Hill Farms, I couldn’t be more excited for a sunflower Steve and his partnership with Erin at Floret! Can’t wait to see seeds come to market!
Beautiful bouquet ... and so excited for Sunflower Steve . Hard work and patience really do pay off !!! Looking forward to getting my hands on some of his seeds and growing those glorious sunflowers in my little Georgia garden. Again - congrats to Steve and his family !!!!
I was so stoked to see you and the one and only Sunflower Steve in the thumbnail!!! He really seems like such a wholesome guy and I feel like the world needs a lot more of that. Thanks for spreading the word Erin! This is so awesome!
Omg You and 🌻Steve are so relaxed and this entire interview was like watching family members bounce off one another....the banter, laughter, charisma, joking around.....but yet managed to explain in such detail the science and work behind creating such awesome and amazing flowers!!!!! Fantastic bouquet and fantastic flowers 🌸🏵🥀🌺🌻🌼🌾
Yay! It's great to see all my favorite flower people come together and support each other! Sunflower Steve, you are looking pretty comfortable on camera. These ladies will make a UA-camr out of you yet!
After following several gardeners, I'm convinced they are the nicest people on earth. Man - this world needs more gardeners. Thank you for introducing me to Steve. :)
Love his excitement! I can’t imagine all the work that goes into breeding, I can’t even get regular sunflowers to grow where I want them. Lovely arrangement, Erin!
It's was so nice to see you with Steve together just chatting away about flowers. Love his enthusiasm, charisma and knowledge . He seems to be very relaxed down to earth guy and happy go lucky. Oh, my goodness , I am so excited last few days. 🌻❤️🌻❤️ Your bouquet looks Soooo Beautiful. Very different and unique . Definitely home grown ! 😘❤️🌻🌸
That was really interesting! I’m always so impressed by the patience and attention to detail flower breeders possess. I couldn’t do it, but I’m glad they do!
Impatient Gardener fun, with flower arranging and Sunflower Steve....wow, I feel like I hit the jackpot!! I love wild arrangements like that and this interview was great. I have been following Steve over at Flower Hill Farm's channel. Amazing story!
Congratulations, Steve! I’ll be looking for these seeds. Way to follow a dream 👏. Erin, stop saying that you can’t arrange flowers because the arrangement you created, while conducting an interview, is gorgeous. Great post!
Great interview Erin! Steve is obviously a really nice farmer/businessman. I am thankful to be "in" on this new endeavor & follow along with how everything goes for Steve. How fun! Can not wait to have new sunflowers to grow! Hope his daughters carry on with plant breeding. Best wishes to Steve - from Florida!
Really nice, relaxed interview! And Thank You for printing flower names on the screen, as well as those wonderful close-ups of the flowers at the end. So very helpful! And last, but certainly not least- Your bouquet is GORGEOUS!!! Very well done!!! Those bouquet ingredients are also Spectacular!! 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
If you're to be successful you must be passionate about what you do and Steve is that and more. Such excitement is fun to see. Can't wait to buy the seeds. Congratulations Steve!
So fun that Steve came to visit you, Erin! I love this guy ever since learning about him on Nicole's channel. So very happy for what you're doing, Steve! God is blessing you and all of us through you!
Awesome visit! Your bouquet is gorgeous! Sunflower Steve is zooming up the ladder of all flower lovers popularity poles! 💛Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
We are so happy for you!! Floret is why I started growing cut flowers in my yard 3 years ago after seeing them on Garden Answer. Now I grow too many for just myself and friends and family so I’m starting an honor box booth in front of our house in the Chicago suburbs. I’ve learned so much.
Wow, that sheds a whole new light on seeds & propagation--respect! So great that you work with native varieties. I grew up in northern Illinois, admiring roadside flowers and prairies, and I love that you've given these wildflowers the pedestal they deserve. Thanks, Erin and Steve!
Congratulations to Steve! Your vision, passion, and dogged determination have paid off. And, just think, we gardeners are the lucky recipients!! Thank you!! And, thanks also to Erin for this fun and informative video!
So happy for Sunflower Steve, how wonderful for him and his family to be working with Floret. Wishing you the best! Love this video, loved your bouquet too!
I am so happy for Steve!! His hard work has paid off and who better to partner with?? Floret!! So excited to follow along and hopefully 🤞some day soon to have sunflower Steve's seeds!! 🌻🌻🌻🌻
I learned so much from this interview! Congratulations Steve ! I wish you the best ! And the bouquet 💐 of flowers Erin created from your flowers! Wow! 🌸❤️🇨🇦
!!! Soooo interesting! Just hiked around a meadow in Michigan recently and saw most of the flowers he brought you❤️. The purple prairie clover was stunning. Thought exactly same that they resemble gomphrena. Glad to know rabbits love them so I won’t plant them on my rabbit infested property. It’s so nice to hear familiar Midwest accents spoken. Fascinating information on flower breeding!
Yey, Steve, you're everywhere! I just love your story and your sunflowers! Hoping it doesn't take too long for your Sunflower seeds to be available for us Canadians too. 🇨🇦❤🇺🇸
Steve is GREAT! Can’t say any more😊. Hope he resurfaces often and really wishing him the best luck with his crops. And... now I can’t wait to plant sunflowers, especially his Thanks Erin for bringing him into your channel.
Very enjoyable to listen to his process of his breeding of flowers. His dedication of 13 years is inspiring. Thanks for sharing and educating us in what his journey was like. 👍❤️😊
I am so excited for Steve and his family. Those sunflowers are gorgeous! I love the colors and texture. I am totally going to be putting me some of sunflower Steve's seed in my beds. Just awesome! God bless y'all awesome video
Steve is the man! I just saw Erin’s post (Floret) about these sunflowers & here he is, a guest on your show! This video was informative in so many ways. I loved finding new plants to grow as well as hearing how he developed those sunflowers. Goo work Steve! They are beautiful. Can’t wait till the seeds are available. Go Gophers! Go Vikes! 😂 Mn native now living in GA.
Oh my goodness, so happy he was told to go talk to Erin, talk about a match made in Heaven.! Look forward to having Erin in my inbox saying they're for sale.!
This is a wonderful story. And he has such a good , Joyful energy. It was lovely to watch him talk about the process. You can tell he’s excited and passionate about what he’s doing. And I thought the bouquet was beautiful. It made me want to go out and get myself some fresh flowers. I love a nice big bouquet.
I'm so excited for Sunflower Steve, I heard about him while watching Nicole on Flower Hill Farm. I can't wait to buy his seeds from Floret. I was so happy to see him on your channel, I love you as well!
Sunflower Steve is on all my favorite UA-cam channels! Thank you for having him on, Erin. I’m so very excited about his partnership with Floret. Congratulations Steve!
Steve you are AWESOME!!Thanks for what you are accomplishing w all your hard work!! LOVE YOUR FLOWERS!!🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻❤
How exciting!!!! Where can I send Steve a blank check in exchange for a handful of seeds? He truly has the magic beans😄
Also....38 days!??!?! I'll send two blank checks!
It sounds like you'll be sending that check to Floret when they are released!
Two of my favorites! So good to see you guys together 🌻💐
@Flower Hill Farm Now if we could only get you to come over to Wisconsin....😁I think my little garden is right in the middle of Erin and Steve would love to host all three of you anytime😁Just saying 😉
@@connieshelby5639 you really should keep working on this to make it happen!!
Ha! I just watched your latest video then saw this one in my feed. I HAD to watch it. 😊
Congratulations Sunflower Steve!
I love that Steve said he created this sunflower, then quickly said, “well, me and God”. Glad God gave Steve creativity and passion to keep going 13 years. Also that Steve gave the glory to God. Love your work and a blessing to hear about it all. Fascinating guest Erin, thanks for sharing Sunflower Steve with us.
I couldn't have said it better so allow me to piggyback on your comment, Marti, if you please. This was fascinating. Erin, thank you for featuring this gentleman and his work. Sunflower Steve, I've offered a prayer for your continued success in flower breeding and growing. ~ Lisa
@@LB-vl3qn And blessings back to you Lisa
Amen!! Can't wait to get some and grow them in my own garden!!
God Bless!!
So happy for Sunflower Steve and his legacy. Erin, that bouquet is stunning.
Sunflower Steve is a national treasure! Fabulous video!
Erin, Steve was a fascinating guest, and his enthusiasm was contagious! I loved listening to him talk about his chosen career. He made me laugh out loud when he spelled out 'H O A R Y verbena. His enthusiasm for creating new varieties of flowers was delightful. I got a kick out of you saying that he was in your phone as Sunflower Steve, and he came right back with, 'and you're in my phone as Impatient Erin. What a fun video, I loved it! ~Margie
As I have said on other channels, Steve is a perfect example of the American Dream! He is amazing and deserves many rewards for all his efforts. His enthusiasm is infectious. Congratulations, Steve and Floret! Wishing you much success!!! I just love how this community of plant lovers is so supportive of each other.
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Steve, you are so personable and easy to like! All your hard work is paying off, wish you the best. Love it when you show up on some of my favorite gardening UA-cam channels.
Thank you for sharing. Steve is such a wonderful happy guy and so are his flowers in the arrangement you made.
This whole video warms my heart. I have 80 acres of native flowers in SW Minnesota and this is all dear to my heart!
Oh my God , Steve has so much charisma , everybody loves him and his wonderful sun flowers !
Erin The bouquet is amazing! I can see how passionate Steve is about plants!
Love that Steve made his way for a visit! He’s visiting all my favorite groups! As stated on Flower Hill Farms, I couldn’t be more excited for a sunflower Steve and his partnership with Erin at Floret! Can’t wait to see seeds come to market!
Love to see Sunflower Steve visiting all my favorite flower farmers! So happy for you and excited for when we can purchase seeds! 😁 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Sunflower Steve needs his own channel. We just LOVE him on Flower Hill Farm ❤
Beautiful bouquet ... and so excited for Sunflower Steve . Hard work and patience really do pay off !!! Looking forward to getting my hands on some of his seeds and growing those glorious sunflowers in my little Georgia garden. Again - congrats to Steve and his family !!!!
So happy for him. Super happy , such a wonderful company as floret will be working with him. This was a great video!
So good to see Sunflower Steve! Happy for his affiliation with Floret. Many exciting things ahead!
Hey, It's Sunflower Steve!! Great news, so excited about the partnership with Floret! Erin, you created a beautiful arrangement! Thanks for sharing! 🌻
I was so stoked to see you and the one and only Sunflower Steve in the thumbnail!!! He really seems like such a wholesome guy and I feel like the world needs a lot more of that. Thanks for spreading the word Erin! This is so awesome!
I saw him, but wasn't sure it was really him. He IS a really humble guy.
Steve is a great testimony of God putting you in the right place at the right time. What a great company to partner with!
Omg You and 🌻Steve are so relaxed and this entire interview was like watching family members bounce off one another....the banter, laughter, charisma, joking around.....but yet managed to explain in such detail the science and work behind creating such awesome and amazing flowers!!!!!
Fantastic bouquet and fantastic flowers 🌸🏵🥀🌺🌻🌼🌾
Yay! It's great to see all my favorite flower people come together and support each other! Sunflower Steve, you are looking pretty comfortable on camera. These ladies will make a UA-camr out of you yet!
That’s so awesome!!!!! We love Sunflower Steve!!!! 🤸♀️🙌💕
After following several gardeners, I'm convinced they are the nicest people on earth. Man - this world needs more gardeners. Thank you for introducing me to Steve. :)
Love his excitement! I can’t imagine all the work that goes into breeding, I can’t even get regular sunflowers to grow where I want them. Lovely arrangement, Erin!
Supper excited for you Steve, I'll be watching for those seeds to come available
Oh my gosh! What a treat! Steve is great and I am so excited about his sunflowers! Congratulations Steve!
Steve talks about nicole like she is his daughter ... with a sparkle in his eye
I grow wide leaf mountain mint.❤❤🌿
Congratulations Steve. So happy for you and your family.
It's was so nice to see you with Steve together just chatting away about flowers. Love his enthusiasm, charisma and knowledge . He seems to be very relaxed down to earth guy and happy go lucky. Oh, my goodness , I am so excited last few days.
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Your bouquet looks Soooo Beautiful. Very different and unique . Definitely home grown ! 😘❤️🌻🌸
And now I’ll need waiting to get my hands on those sunflowers!!!
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That was really interesting! I’m always so impressed by the patience and attention to detail flower breeders possess. I couldn’t do it, but I’m glad they do!
Wow!!! How fun to see all the flower worlds colliding! Haha
Always alway always happy and excited to see new people and new flowers blooming! 😜
Well that was a wonderful video
Impatient Gardener fun, with flower arranging and Sunflower Steve....wow, I feel like I hit the jackpot!! I love wild arrangements like that and this interview was great. I have been following Steve over at Flower Hill Farm's channel. Amazing story!
Congratulations, Steve! I’ll be looking for these seeds. Way to follow a dream 👏. Erin, stop saying that you can’t arrange flowers because the arrangement you created, while conducting an interview, is gorgeous. Great post!
Great interview Erin! Steve is obviously a really nice farmer/businessman. I am thankful to be "in" on this new endeavor & follow along with how everything goes for Steve. How fun! Can not wait to have new sunflowers to grow! Hope his daughters carry on with plant breeding. Best wishes to Steve - from Florida!
Really nice, relaxed interview!
And Thank You for printing flower names on the screen, as well as those wonderful close-ups of the flowers at the end.
So very helpful!
And last, but certainly not least-
Your bouquet is GORGEOUS!!!
Very well done!!!
Those bouquet ingredients are also Spectacular!!
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If you're to be successful you must be passionate about what you do and Steve is that and more. Such excitement is fun to see. Can't wait to buy the seeds. Congratulations Steve!
Congrats Sunflower Steve! I can’t wait to get my hands on you flowers!
What a delightful chat! So interesting!
You rock Steve!!!!!
So fun that Steve came to visit you, Erin! I love this guy ever since learning about him on Nicole's channel. So very happy for what you're doing, Steve! God is blessing you and all of us through you!
So fun to first see Sunflower Steve with Nicole, and now with you. Heartwarming, and you three always bring joy and warmth into my day.
OMG !!!! yay
I’m really happy for sunflower Steve🌞
Great guest and he grows beautiful flowers.
Can't wait for the new sunflowers!
It’s hard to say whom I love more you Erin or Sunflower Steve, what a WONDERFUL match today on this video!
Really enjoy hearing about Sunflower Steve's farm! 🌻 so excited to buy the seeds once they're available.
So happy to have Steve on here!
Awesome visit! Your bouquet is gorgeous! Sunflower Steve is zooming up the ladder of all flower lovers popularity poles! 💛Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
We are so happy for you!! Floret is why I started growing cut flowers in my yard 3 years ago after seeing them on Garden Answer. Now I grow too many for just myself and friends and family so I’m starting an honor box booth in front of our house in the Chicago suburbs. I’ve learned so much.
Couldn’t be happier for Sunflower Steve and his family! I’m glad he was able to visit with you Erin, beautiful arrangement of such pretty flowers!
THAT was unexpected! Erin, Nicole, Sunflower Steve, AND Floret?!?! Whatta community 💪🏻🎉😄
Wow, that sheds a whole new light on seeds & propagation--respect! So great that you work with native varieties. I grew up in northern Illinois, admiring roadside flowers and prairies, and I love that you've given these wildflowers the pedestal they deserve. Thanks, Erin and Steve!
Congratulations to Steve! Your vision, passion, and dogged determination have paid off. And, just think, we gardeners are the lucky recipients!! Thank you!! And, thanks also to Erin for this fun and informative video!
So happy for Sunflower Steve, how wonderful for him and his family to be working with Floret. Wishing you the best! Love this video, loved your bouquet too!
I am so happy for Steve!! His hard work has paid off and who better to partner with?? Floret!! So excited to follow along and hopefully 🤞some day soon to have sunflower Steve's seeds!! 🌻🌻🌻🌻
He"s a cutie. Amazing inspiration. May God continue blessing him.
Gorgeous! Two thumbs up for Steve!👍👍
Sunflower Steve is the best. So happy for him. Can't wait to be able to buy those seeds. Thanks for sharing this special interview.
We love Steve! I hope he has tons of success.
We love Sunflower Steve!! The new sunflowers are amazing!! Thanks Erin
Love Sunflower Steve! Can wait to see his sunflowers in my backyard.
Cheering you on Sunflower Steve! Wishing you all the best! Much love from Utah. I eagerly wait for your Sunflowers to be planted in my garden! 🌻💜🌻
What an interesting journey Steve has had with his sunflowers 🌻
YAAAAAAAAAY SUNFLOWER STEVE!!!!!
I have seen him on Nicoles channel. And the sunflowers are awesome 😍 now I wish and hop that I can gett grow them in my garden in Oslo Norway 😊
I learned so much from this interview! Congratulations Steve ! I wish you the best ! And the bouquet 💐 of flowers Erin created from your flowers! Wow! 🌸❤️🇨🇦
Woohoo! I am so excited about getting the chance to grow your beautiful sunflowers Steve. I hope the seeds will be available next spring.
!!! Soooo interesting! Just hiked around a meadow in Michigan recently and saw most of the flowers he brought you❤️. The purple prairie clover was stunning. Thought exactly same that they resemble gomphrena. Glad to know rabbits love them so I won’t plant them on my rabbit infested property. It’s so nice to hear familiar Midwest accents spoken. Fascinating information on flower breeding!
Can’t wait to grow those beautiful sunflowers 🌻 Thank you for all your work Steve. ✌🏻
Yey, Steve, you're everywhere!
I just love your story and your sunflowers!
Hoping it doesn't take too long for your Sunflower seeds to be available for us Canadians too. 🇨🇦❤🇺🇸
I love Steve!!! It’s great seeing the two of you together. 😍🌻
Steve is GREAT! Can’t say any more😊. Hope he resurfaces often and really wishing him the best luck with his crops. And... now I can’t wait to plant sunflowers, especially his Thanks Erin for bringing him into your channel.
Very enjoyable to listen to his process of his breeding of flowers. His dedication of 13 years is inspiring. Thanks for sharing and educating us in what his
journey was like. 👍❤️😊
Congratulations Sunflower Steve and family! Looking forward to your seeds being available in the future! Great interview.
OMG!!! Sunflower Steve 🌻🌻🌻 I'm a super fan 💛👏 can't wait for the sunflowers to be available.
I am so excited for Steve and his family. Those sunflowers are gorgeous! I love the colors and texture. I am totally going to be putting me some of sunflower Steve's seed in my beds. Just awesome! God bless y'all awesome video
Steve is the man! I just saw Erin’s post (Floret) about these sunflowers & here he is, a guest on your show! This video was informative in so many ways. I loved finding new plants to grow as well as hearing how he developed those sunflowers. Goo work Steve! They are beautiful. Can’t wait till the seeds are available. Go Gophers! Go Vikes! 😂 Mn native now living in GA.
Those flowers! Gorgeous! I love native flowers- they are so unique. Congratulations to Sunflower Steve!
Oh my goodness, so happy he was told to go talk to Erin, talk about a match made in Heaven.! Look forward to having Erin in my inbox saying they're for sale.!
Can't wait until I can purchase Steve's Sunflowers!
Chocolate sunflowers
Hand pollenation wow!! Thank goodness you have wonderful children!!!🌻🌻🌻
Thanks Erin. Enjoyed watching Sunflower Steve.
This is a wonderful story. And he has such a good , Joyful energy. It was lovely to watch him talk about the process. You can tell he’s excited and passionate about what he’s doing. And I thought the bouquet was beautiful. It made me want to go out and get myself some fresh flowers. I love a nice big bouquet.
this is so awesome. good for him!
I'm so excited for Sunflower Steve, I heard about him while watching Nicole on Flower Hill Farm. I can't wait to buy his seeds from Floret. I was so happy to see him on your channel, I love you as well!
This was super fun to watch. Thanks Erin and Steve!
Note: totally just ordered some of that verbena!
Congratulations steve flower
Congrats Steve, beautiful sunflowers.
Steve, I'm so happy for you! Wishing you the best of luck. I can't wait to see these offered via Floret. Erin (both of them) are amazing ladies!
Steve and God ☺️
Sunflower Steve what a treat!!! Can't wait to checkout his sunflower with Floret Farms. 🌻
Haha loved “future Erin”