Meet Your Neighbor Rosalyn Murillo
By Madison Shaw
Originally published in the Left Hand Valley Courier on May 28, 2025.
Five-year-old Rosalyn Murillo delivers flowers to Warren, Carlson and Moore law offices weekly with her mom, Betsy, and younger sisters Hosanna and Amelia. (Vicki Maurer/Left Hand Valley Courier)
"My name is Rosalyn, like a rose."
At just five years old, Rosalyn has already discovered something many adults spend a lifetime trying to understand.
The joy that comes from spreading happiness.
Every week, she walks around town with a bouquet of freshly cut flowers in her hands to deliver to local businesses, passing them out with a smile that lights up the room.
She has learned this tradition from her late grandmother, Kate Ross, who once ran Belle Fiore Flower Farm in Niwot, a dream that began with a garden full of vegetables that was eventually transformed into a colorful space where flowers bloomed year-round. Rosalyn often accompanied her grandmother to deliver flowers around Niwot.
When her grandma passed away last March, the family was left with an abundance of flowers and seedlings. Rosalyn, though still very young, felt the impact of losing someone who had meant so much. Betsy, Rosalyn's mom, recalls how, even at five, Rosalyn understood that the flowers made people happy, and that it made her feel happy too.
"She just caught onto the magic of it," Betsy said. "Last summer, it was all about delivering flowers, just the way Grandma used to."
Rosalyn added, "It makes me think of Grandma, and it's helpful and everybody likes it, and they become happy."
Today, Rosalyn continues the tradition with her mom, bringing flowers to Warren, Carlson & Moore LLP offices and other businesses around Niwot. The flowers may no longer be part of an official business, but they still bring joy to the people who receive them.
"I like making people smile," she said with a grin. "And it makes the room smell good too."
While she enjoys the act of delivering flowers, Rosalyn also has a keen eye for picking them. She loves the colors pink, blue, green, red, and even black, which she describes as "really pretty and shiny in the sun, like ballet shoes."
"I like flowers a lot," she said. "Especially roses."
Rosalyn is also learning more about the science of flowers as she helps her mom pick, arrange, and even cut them. "I pick what looks nice, and I make patterns," she explained.
In addition to learning about flowers, Rosalyn is teaching her younger sister, Hosanna, how to pick them. She is also excited to pass on the tradition to their youngest sister, Amelia, when she is old enough. It is clear that for Rosalyn, the magic of flowers is not just in the giving, it is the sharing and passing down of knowledge to the people she loves.
Even without her grandma's flower business, Rosalyn's joy in spreading happiness and sharing this special tradition with others ensures that the legacy lives on.
