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Small urban organic flower farm in Atlanta, GA specializing in heirloom flowers and perennials

23/11/2024

And back around the seasons we go! Planted out these early Spring beauties over the past week and just in time before the first hard frost this coming week (if not tonight🥶)! Ranunculus, anemones and Scabiosa (pincushion flower) along with tulips and daffodils are the first to show us winter is over and Spring has begun so I always look forward to their arrival! This has been such a long warm Fall that I feel winter will be super short, compressing all those clean up garden tasks into just 2 short months for us. Valentines is honestly the mark for the start of Spring here in GA and my body could use just a bit longer break this year😅. Snuggle in this chilly weekend and dream of Spring flowers friends!

22/11/2024

Love the intersection of dahlia and mum seasons🥰 Both are at and end but lots more of BOTH next year so lots to look forward to!

Dahlia: Peaches and Cream
Mums: River City
Scabiosa Black Knight

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18/11/2024

Spent a restoring weekend digging in the dirt and trying to get some Fall chores done before the first real frost comes- planting out seedlings, digging up the last of the dahlias and beginning to clean up the mum bed. Amongst that mess of tangled stems were huge bunches of “Crimson Tide”. Now despite being from GA (huge rivalry with AL), I do love the deep crimson color and AMAZING scent of these blooms🥰.! I am definitely finding it harder to recover from long weeks on clinical service and call, especially in our much bigger new children’s hospital, so taking this time is so important for my mental health. Bringing in a huge bouquet of these beauties keeps the feeling going and will help get me through the long week ahead. Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, be the light in the world.

06/11/2024

Favorites from the mum patch: River City, Bronze Fleece, Annie Girl; foliage: lemon balm

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26/10/2024

I like to take 5 min of garden meditation before heading into a busy day in the new CHOA-AMBH NICU and I had a lovely surprise this morning! I found a beautiful bloom on a second cutting from a 1st year seedling I’m calling KD Barbie (thanks for the name!) and I’m so excited about this one! Large bright pink, and I don’t mind her tight yellow center. I dug around the first plant a bit and it making great tubers so fingers crossed I get a bunch to expand and see how she does next season!

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21/10/2024

It never ceases to amaze me how much temperature and day length can change the color of dahlias. Here is Ferncliff Copper in the heat of mid August in Atlanta (think 95+🥵) versus the last 2 pictures which was last week (60-70s with nights in 40s). The summer heat made them much more rosy with a pink undertone and now with cooler weather, much more the typical orangey bronze color we associate this variety with. Although I think I’m a bit partial to summer pinker version, I’m loving the cooler weather 😅! What’s your vote?

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19/10/2024

Which was better? 2023 pumpkin arrangement in a fairytale live pumpkin vs 2024 arrangement in a faux pumpkin.

Real pumpkins- Pros: variety in color and shape, compostable, real feel and weight. Cons: messy work to cut (even with a circular drill bit) clean out inside, rot despite cleaning inside with bleach (don’t get me started about how I left it on my dining room table and it left a permanent mark🤦🏼‍♀️🙄).

Faux pumpkins- Pros: easy to cut, don’t rot, reusable year after year, change arrangements to cover early Fall through Thanksgiving. Cons: don’t look as realistic, not compostable.

Thoughts? Opinions?

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08/10/2024

A gorgeous find in the seedling patch! Hoping she makes great tubers and taking some cuttings to overwinter just in case. Any thoughts on a name??Unfortunately Cinderella and Aurora are already taken🫤.

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07/10/2024

As the season winds down (more quickly due to the combination of extreme heat/drought for 4 months, followed by 15” of rain from Helene🙄) I’m taking some cuttings to overwinter some favorites so I thought I’d share some of the best of 2024. This is Bloomquist Pinwheel- a gorgeous fuscia-purple that really stands out in the patch! Hoping its tubers are doing well- I pulled back the soil a bit and so far it looks ok so leaving it a few more weeks hoping to get more tuber growth and not lose it to rot😬.

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06/10/2024

Some old favorites with a few dahlia seedlings. Most of my seedling patch were singles, but a few were spectacular collarettes and anemones so well so see how well they made tubers and overwinter. I don’t get to let many of my ball and dinner plates go to seed because I’ve had to start an early dig after the flooding rain as I was beginning to lose some from rot🤦🏼‍♀️. Not the best dahlia season for sure so time to start the yard clean up and prepare for spring!!

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28/09/2024

Some of the beautiful dahlias hanging in there after the 15” of rain we got. Others are looking a bit wilty so I’m digging them up so the tubers don’t rot in the super saturated ground and taking some cuttings to overwinter where I can. If I wasn’t proving the flowers for a memorial service in 2 weeks, I’d probably just start digging them all up to be safe. It’s been a tough growing year and I’m a little ready to start the cleanup and begging prepping for a new, better year next year! Anyone feeling overwhelmed and just done right now??

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24/09/2024

Fairway Spur is new to me this year and gives the vibes of Sierra Glow both in size and color. Love that salmony-desert rose kind of color🥰. I’m going to try to take some cuttings of favorites and overwinter them indoors- I’ve done this once before but it takes attention, potting up, etc to make it work. I’m hoping to have enough tuber and young plant stock to share with folks locally at least in the next year or so. Adding up all the tubers I’ve already ordered and {hopefully} my stock that will overwinter in a friend’s produced company cooler and trying to figure out where they will all go next year! Might be losing more lawn😂!

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15/09/2024

I bought some bulk dahlia tubers from a wholesale distributor and this was labeled “Drama Queen” which it clearly doesn’t look like to me. The color is definitely shifting more towards the dark berry from lighter and more yellow when it was very hot. Ideas??🧐

14/09/2024

Team Summer or team Fall? Harvested lots of dahlias and the first of the heirloom mums today and these two beauties are in the cooler on the cart for some lucky person! Special orders are always welcome- DM or email to set one up for local pickup or nationwide overnight delivery.

The Flower Cart is at the top of the driveway at 2671 Overlook Dr NE 30345. It’s self-serve so just pick a bouquet you want and scan the Zelle, Venmo or PayPal QR code to pay- easy peasy!

04/09/2024

Closeup Wednesday- amassing my pile of closeups for some greeting card packs (since no one I know other than my mom uses a paper wallet calendar anymore🫠). Think this one should make the cut?

Also picking some to print for my office at the new Arthur M Blank Children’s Hospital! Move in day is Sunday, September 29th so consider staying home in your comfy jammies and keep the roads clear while we move all our babies and kids from Egleston to the new hospital🥳! See the CHOA website for more info on this exciting transition!

https://www.choa.org/about-us/arthur-m-blank-hospital

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30/08/2024

It’s finally official- I am a Full Professor! I had the pleasure of attending the Women’s Senior Promotions breakfast at Emory School of Medicine this morning hosted by Dean Wong and the FCAP Committee to celebrate the women at Emory who were promoted to Associate or Full Professor this year. It was wonderful to meet so many amazing women from specialties across the School of Medicine- surgery, neurology, dermatology (and more!) and to celebrate with my colleagues in Pediatrics pictured here. Kudos to these amazing women and to Dean Wong for reminding us to not only savor the journey but the “destination” of this accomplishment💕.

29/08/2024

Dear Southern Summer- I want a divorce. I LOVE you Summer. I do. Well maybe New England Summer of my youth. This 97 degree, super humid almost September, drought for 4 months thing has driven me to hate you. I’m done, I’m walking away and not looking back. I’m not going to complain when it’s rainy and cold for months {ok, maybe}. But really, right now I’m ready and want to fast forward to next weekend. Signed, Desperate Southern Gardener {and Plants}.😂🤦🏼‍♀️

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I’m definitely more comfortable being behind the camera than in front of it but wanted to take you on a walk through my big dahlia patch out front of my house so I can explain those little organza baggies all over my plants that make my neighbors so curious (or they just think I’m insane😂). Trying to get as much weeding done as I can during this cool spell- can you say Alleve??🫠 Enjoy the last bit of this respite before real summer comes back next week🥵. Do you cover your dahlia blooms or spray them with something or have another way to deal with pests ruing your blooms? I’d love more ideas! #karpendiemblooms #atlurbanflowerfarm #atlantaorganicflowers #buylocalatlanta #atlantaflowers #grownnotflownatlanta #floretclassof2022 #flowerfarmerflorist #dahliadaze🌺

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