Flowers are a classic gift for mom on Mother's Day. At Bear River High School (BRHS) in Garland, you can buy some flowers for mom while supporting a good cause. Every year the students at BRHS spend months growing hundreds and hundreds of plants, including some beautiful potted flower arrangements. Then, the week before Mother's Day they put all of those plants up for sale. The proceeds go towards keeping a number of programs funded.
A customer wheeled a trolley away from one of the school's two greenhouses Wednesday afternoon. It was filled with flowers. That customer was just one of a dozen to show up within the first hour of the annual sale.
"I took one ag class and fell in love with the whole thing," a student named Spencer told ABC4.
Like Spencer, fellow student Caleb enjoys the greenhouse class. He said, "I love the hands-on aspect of it."
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