Specialty fresh cut flowers in spring and fall. Dahlia tubers. CT grown, organically managed.
I LOVE a good pompon dahlia. They are the cutest little touch to garden beds! Tiny blooms, but incredible prolific blooms. We grew a handful of varieties this year but I want to add more to the grow list for next season. They produce a LOT of tubers too.
Pictured:
Koko Puff
Pop Willo
Petra’s Wedding
The last cuts of the season. I’ll miss the rainbow of dahlias with their intricate forms. They’re such a delight.
Fall bulbs are trickling in 💕
It’s a time of so so many farm tasks here, but I get excited when I see them arrive. It’s a promise that spring will come again.
Our fall bulb sale is still live! Some varieties are sold out already, and we only have a little bit of narcissus left to share. Don’t miss out, and get in the dirt this fall and plant!
Not the prettiest picture, but the prettiest things grow from the weirdest looking matter.
With lots of discussion about Stonehouse cuttings producing dahlia tubers going on, I got curious and dug a few today.
Both cuttings pictured were planted on the same date in the same conditions, and planted several nodes deep.
KA’s Cinder Rose produced 5 viable tubers, KA’s Desert Rose produced 1. Based on the roots I can see it was trying to form more tubers but didn’t get there, maybe this variety just needs more time in ground. I also dug another KA’s Desert Rose that was planted same day as well, and it was root ball only.
All of these were Stonehouse Cuttings. I’ll be interested to see how the rest have done! I will give them another week or two in ground first.
I just can’t wait for Spring. The flowers are unreal!
If you want to try your hand at growing them too, our Fall Bulb sale is open at the link below. Local pickup only. We’ve got a great selection this year!
Sale will stay live through the month or until sold out. It’s about time to get planting!
📸 Dahlia AC Twisp
Featuring this one again because it’s such a stunner and so floriferous. You have to grow this one! Honestly wasn’t sure I’d like it, but I was pleasantly surprised.
If you grow dahlias, or want to grow dahlias, Cornel and its sports are a must have. I can’t say enough good things about these plants - wonderful tuber producers, easy to store, prolific bloomers, very healthy plants, long and strong stems and the colors are so striking.
Pictured:
Cornel
Ivanetti
Isabel
We also grow Cornel Bronze and Caitlin’s Joy, both Cornel Sports as well, not pictured here.
Zero filter on these by the way.
Heirloom mums are on my forever grow list. They are easy to propagate, and add lots of color to the garden at the end of the season. The flower heads are much larger than garden mums, with wonderfully long stems for cutting. Vase life is amazing too - I easily get 2-3 weeks out of them. We’ll have to bring in more varieties for next year!
Pictured: French Vanilla & Homecoming.
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 & for hosting us 💕
KA’s Apricot Jam throws a lot of green centers for us, but as the weather has cooled the blooms have gotten better. It may look orange in photos, but in person it is one of the more true apricot colored dahlias I’ve seen.
I was really excited to add this variety to our collection over the winter, but given the current climate not sure this one will be making the cut for us next year.
📸 Dahlia Negroni Sunset
This Spring, I got my hands on a tuber of the elusive ‘La Belle Epoque’ but am told this is actually Negroni Sunset, a new introduction from UK based Sarah Raven.
I’m inclined to agree as the dark stems remind of the other Sarah Raven dahlias we’ve seen.
Plants are 4.5ft tall, dark stems, with beautiful darker sunset blooms.
An evening stroll through the dahlias 💕
I’m terribly behind on labeling this season, with so many more plants than I’m used to. Hoping frost comes on the later side so we can confirm all of our blooms and get them labeled and stored safely to share with you later in the year!
The next few weeks will be focused on this task, preparing for the big dig, finishing up our new hoop house, flipping and cover cropping beds, and planting many of our spring crops like ranunculus! Busiest time of year as we close the season and plant for next year’s blooms.
📸 Dahlia Molly Raven
One of my all time favorites!
Earlier in the season the blooms were more purple, and with the cooler nights I’m seeing a gorgeous shift into pinks and reds. A lovely picotee edge on the petals too! Plants are prolific bloomers with very long stems and gorgeous dark foliage. This one will always be a staple for us.
Our bloom bar yesterday was so much fun! Thanks to everyone who came out to support us! We’ll have to do more of these in Spring.
Bloom Bar today in Litchfield from 1:30PM. Hope to see you there - the fall flowers are incredible! 💕💐🌻
📸 Dahlia Hollyhill Serenity looked so perfect today, I had to take some extra photos.
📸 Dahlia 20th Ave Memory
Beautiful light pink ball, on a very healthy plant. Took quite a while for this one to bloom for us but it was worth the wait.
We’re gearing up for a flower filled Saturday at White Memorial in Litchfield!
Join us at Family Nature Day starting at 1:30 on 9/28 to build your own bouquet. The whole event is family friendly, and there will be so many activities and local artisans!
We’ll be bringing the blooms - Dahlias, Sunflowers, Zinnias, Celosia & Fresh Eucalyptus all priced per stem. Hope to see you there!
Today marks the final week of fall flower subscriptions, and we loaded them up with dahlias! Thank you to all our subscribers this season.
Next season will look a lot different as there are big changes coming to our farm.
Saturday flowers!
We have just a few bouquets left at BouNom Bakery - today and tomorrow morning until sold out!
1 large dahlia and eucalyptus bouquet is also available, the last one of the month! Message me if you want to make it yours 💐
We’ll be taking a break until our Bloom Bar next weekend.
Great news!
We’re restocking BouNom Bakery tomorrow morning with our $20 fall bouquets. They went quickly today so don’t forget to head in and grab one with your pastries tomorrow morning!
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!
Friday in Flowers 💐
I’m overwhelmed by the community support we received today - our pop up was such a success! Thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙏
This may have been the last time we stock bouquets until Spring, depending on when frost comes. But we’ll be at White Memorial next weekend with loads of blooms for our Bloom Bar! Hope to see you there!
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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 💕
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!
We’ve got sprouts! I went back and forth on sowing eucalyptus for awhile because it takes forever to mature, but I couldn’t resist - these will make their way into our late summer subscription bouquets. So happy to have seedlings again! Happy belated 2024 from us. [farmington valley Connecticut flower farm] [eucalyptus]
Making holiday gifts is fun and can be more even meaningful! There are a million ideas out there, and these simple dried flower ornaments are easy enough for my toddler to make for friends and family. All you need is dried flowers, clear empty ornaments and pretty ribbon or twine. We also love to bake, make self care products, and other crafts - mostly with ingredients from our farm this year! Are you making any gifts this year? Christmas gift cut flower farm Farmington valley
We’re getting our temporary bed ready to plant a few thousand tulips! Are you planting any bulbs this fall?
Have you ever grown borage? This beautiful, edible blue flowering plant is the perfect companion to your tomatoes and strawberries. Plant it and the pollinators will thank you. It makes a decent cut flower too 😉 We use soil blocks to prevent transplant shock as borage produces a long taproot. We have a limited amount available for pickup on our farm. They have been grown in organic OMRI certified soil and are fully hardened off and ready to plant. $2 per start. Message me for pick up!
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