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The Dahlia Field Local to Hawkes Bay soil to vase Dahlias are available in quantity. Flowers in season (Feb to April) If I can’t find Z that is where he’ll be. But why would you?
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THE DAHLIA FIELD·SUNDAY, 15 MARCH 2020·
Two years to discover the magnificence of Dahlias, 6 months to plan, raise and irrigate beds, 2 months of purchasing start up stock (and hiding it from my husband, Z) 1 day of planting out 300 Dahlia and checking irrigation and a Summer of watching my husband fall in love with Dahlia. Should I be jealous of the Dahlia’s hold over Z or grateful that

the Visa bills are glossed over now? At the moment I’m happy to say thanks to the beautiful blousey girls and also grateful thanks to the multitude of people who gave their time and hearts to my little venture. We are coming to the end of our first year of growing and learning about the best way to care for the beauties that have taken up residence in our field. There was always a plan to do something with the land we bought in Clive, Hastings. Three years into living here the field is brightly lit with the happy faces of Dahlia in 6 x 14m rows. The old caravan has become a Dahlia retirement village to keep them toasty warm over Winter and it provided us with a little respite from the merciless Hawkes Bay sun over the 2020 Summer. While the flowers are absolutely a thrill to have they also provide a calming quality after a long day at work as you wander down the rows. In a vase they are the drama queens happy to take the lead unless you can control them. They sell themselves on a market stall and can draw the attention of people that are at least 20m away. I know this because I tried a stall this year and was told it was inviting! The plan for the 2020 Winter is to set up a website, create the branding, logo, stationary, get the pricing strategy right and a whole lot more of the tedious but necessary functions of a small business and that’s after we’ve dug up the tubers and planted a green crop for Winter. A web site is the first thing to get started and that begins this month in March. It will host a shop for tuber sales, seeds and cuttings, a vlog and blog. I do hope you will come back and see the changes and browse through the myriad of Dahlia pics. Thanks for taking the time to read about us. We hope to see you again.

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The end is nigh.
The end is nigh.

There are more Cornel on the ground then there is in my bucket. That is probably athe signal for a controlled stop to the season. At today's Napier market you'll see we've reduced down to bouquets only. With the recent wet and blustery weather any blooms that could push through snapped on weakish stems. The quality is just not there. We'll be calling it a day for the Farmers Markets this week. Thanks so much for visiting us this season and we look forward to your visits in January 2023.

Update 25/11/21 season. All the new Dahlia are planted, passionfruit are fruiting and we're hoping to get to the Napier market by the middle of December if the weather plays nicely. If you had a standing order for Dahlia last year please contact me so that we can start up again as soon as they are ready to go. I can't wait to show you all the sea of colour once the blooms are open.

A bit of maintenance going on in the field today. We've sold the tipper truck and it's our last day having it around. It's carting top soil before it leaves so my customers.xon't have off roading experiences when they come for their flowers. Thanks little tipper it's been great.

My favourite buckets so far.

13/10/20 Tunnel Update
13/10/20 Tunnel Update

September tunnel update - Excuse my memory lapses the plant I said was a long red one was Amaranth!
September tunnel update - Excuse my memory lapses the plant I said was a long red one was Amaranth!

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