Dahlias are SO genetically diverse - there’s a cultivar for everyone’s tastes. Here’s why we grow them year after year ⬇️
🌱 They come in every shade (except green and blue) and there are so many textures and forms out there to add dimension to your gardens and bouquets.
🌱 They’re cut and come again! While they don’t have the most incredible vase life as a cut flower, they bloom steadily through the summer and fall months (and cutting / dead heading them actually promotes more blooms).
🌱 They’re striking in the garden.
🌱 At the end of the season, we dig for gold! Dahlias produce tubers under ground throughout your season. You can dig them up, split them, and turn your one plant into multiple plants for the next season. Who doesn’t love “free” plants?
🌱 They’re easy to propagate. Again, who doesn’t love more plants?
🌱 Pollinators love them! Especially the open centered collarette dahlias. Every summer and fall my dahlias are covered in bumblebees, and I often find them sleeping under the flower heads. I always plant a bed of collarettes for the bees.
Give them a try!
We’ll be restocking our dahlia tuber shop in the coming weeks, but still have a few garden and cut flower staples left in stock 🙂💐
2024 was a year of challenges, failures, successes, little joys and SO many flowers. Wishing you all a beautiful 2025 from our little flower farm. See you in the New Year!
Fall is for planting 🍁
If you want showstopping blooms in your garden next Spring, it’s almost time to plant them!
Our Fall Bulb Sale (finally) went live this morning.
Quantities are very limited this season, as we are tucking the majority of our bulbs into the ground for Spring. This sale is for local pickup only, with pickup options in Avon, Unionville & Bristol CT in late October.
Visit the link in comments to shop the sale!
Thank you to @bounom_bakery & @brunoscafect for hosting us 💕
SOLD OUT
Growers choice bouquets, eucalyptus shower bundles and DIY buckets are SOLD OUT for September!
We’ll see how things go with first frost in October - perhaps we’ll have some flowers to share 💕
Don’t forget we’ll be at white memorial next Saturday 9/28 with our final bloom bar of the season!
Thank you all so much for choosing us this Mother’s Day. It was my first major holiday event with the farm, and I’m so grateful for all of you. When you support a small business it really does make the biggest difference.
I can’t wait to go bigger and better next year 💕
A cooler sneak peek 👀
We’ll be at Bela Vida & BouNom tomorrow with fresh cut flowers 💐 if you haven’t gotten her flowers yet, here’s your chance!
In the rush this morning I forgot to take photos of our Mother’s Day Preorders from today, but here’s a peek 😍 so colorful and cheerful for all the Moms out there!
Bristol preorders, your pickup is tomorrow.
And if you didn’t preorder but still need flowers, we will have retail available at BouNom in Avon tomrorow. Venmo only, first come first served.
We pull tulips early, at what the flower farming world calls ‘color crack stage.’ A lot of people think flower farm and they think beauty - and yes, we produce beautiful stems, but if you can see them blooming, they’re too late to use as a cut flower!
Instead, our customers get to enjoy a longer vase life and watch the magic that is double tulips opening. And I get to take a few trial handfuls into the house 😉
Sowing onions!
Onions are some of the easiest seeds to sow - I just broadcast them into an open flat and lightly tamp down and cover.
The roots are thick and fibrous and easy to pull apart when it’s time to plant out.
Onions are such an amazing companion plant for flowers! I like to some between my perennials and into annual beds to repel pests and even rodents from eating our young plants. Homegrown always tastes better too.
Seeds from @fruition_seeds - Rossa do Milano is my all time favorite onion!
Specialty fresh cut flowers in spring and fall. Dahlia tubers. CT grown, organically managed.
