Suzanne Gover and her mother Billye Peery, of Simply Blessed Flowers and Gifts, said their flourishing business is all about blessing their customers.

Gover and Peery said their mission for Simply Blessed Flowers has always been for it to be a blessing to others and the relationships they build with people through their shop.

“It is our desire that our [customers] know we want to bless them not only with flowers but in our service and so forth,” Peery said. “The shop truly is a gift from the Lord to us, and in turn we want to share that gift with others. This is a ministry.”

Gover and Peery call their staff “prayer warriors”. If one of them or their customers is in need of prayer, staffers take those requests and pray for them.

Gover and her parents, Billye and Ed Peery, started their business about 10 years ago inside Baylor Medical Center at Frisco as the hospital’s cafe. When the hospital expanded and built a cafeteria, Gover and her parents decided to turn their business into a gift and flower shop. Ten years later, the shop has turned into a full-service florist.

“We never intended to be a full-service florist,” Peery said. “When we envisioned this, it was going to be a hospital gift shop, but what happened was once we started doing flowers for the patients, it had a good response from them and their families, and it just grew from there.”

Twenty percent of Simply Blessed Flowers’ business happens inside the hospital, and 80 percent occurs outside of the hospital.

Gover and Peery said they both had previous experience in the floral business. Gover use to be a delivery driver for a florist, and as a pastor’s wife, Peery made floral arrangements for the church.

Simply Blessed Flowers is getting ready to move into its second location in the shopping center at Preston Lebanon Crossing sometime in July or August.

“On our staff we have five designers, and we’re excited about expanding the area so that they have more room to work and enable us to do more things,” Gover said.

The new location will be the main flower shop, and the location inside Baylor Medical Center will remain a gift shop.

Gover and Peery attribute their success to the quality of service and building relationships.

“That’s where the care for the customer makes a difference,” Peery said. “It’s not just an order on the Internet; it is a customer we are desiring to please, and even though they might have chosen the Internet rather than speaking to us, we want them to still have that personal care that they would have if they called our shop.”