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Ruthie Mae Blooms

Name: Ruthie Mae Blooms
Address: Warrensburg, MO, 64093, US
Telephone: +16609097962

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Bringing locally grown cut flowers and native plants from our gardens to your home.

10/08/2024

Any takers for a purple inspired straight dahlia bunch $15 market bouquet that will include these beauties?? They are STUNNING! Cut fresh today!

First person to message msg me gets it! Pick up at my house south of the Burg.

10/08/2024

A few more market bouquets ready to go!

10/08/2024

Several market bouquets out the door yesterday. More today and tomorrow!

I’m delivering this designed bouquet this morning. It’s definitely one of my favorites of the season! Y’all know I love the dark dahlias. 🖤

HH Black Beauty : KA Cinder Rose : Manoa : Karma Choc : KA Mocha Katie : River’s Dark Chocolate : Irish D Porter : Chewy

10/07/2024

Here’s the deal with dahlias….

Several of you have asked me how long I will have dahlias available.

The general answer is until we have our first “killing frost”. They literally turn black and are dead by morning. That makes me sad.

Now the one possible exception to that rule…. The TUNNEL! I’m hoping that by closing it up tight on the nights we dip below 35 I can “possibly” extend my dahlia season. That makes me happy!

So join me in crossing fingers that it works.

There is no guarantee though! So in the meantime…dahlia market bouquets are only $15 and I’m cutting often. If you are wanting to enjoy some fresh flowers on your table and/or gift to someone you care about, shoot me a message!

I’m cutting fresh this morning as soon as it warms up to 50. Brrrr

10/06/2024

Yesterday I hosted my first stem bar at a wedding shower. It was so much fun watching the ladies “ooh and ahh” over the dahlias as they made their selections! I think everyone had a great time and left pleased. It was a fantastic alternative to party games!

I’m definitely planning to offer this as a regular service next season. From a business perspective, I learned some things that will help me in the future provide the best experience I can. Always improving…..

10/04/2024

I spent this morning with a young lady very special to me. Cass is having her bridal shower tomorrow and wanted to have a bouquet bar for the attendees. We spent the morning cutting bucket after bucket of dahlias. I’ll cut Salvia, Jewels of Opar, Mahogany Splendor Hibiscus, and a few other things later this evening when it cools down some.

I love being able to create special moments for these brides. It’s even more special when they are ones that I love dearly!

Yes I may have enough left over to sell a few market bouquets. Let me know if you want one in case i do.

10/04/2024

For those that don’t know, I live about 5 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. We are the home to the badass B2 Stealth Bomber. Or as my son called it back in 1993…. Batman’s airplane!

I’ve been waiting to snap a photo of it over the dahlias but it’s not easy to do with their flight patterns. It finally happened this morning while I was cutting dahlias! I want to think they did the perfect body roll just for me for the photograph. 😂 I wish I would have had my big camera with me.

I know a lot of you live here, but for those that don’t…. It is a site to see flying over and I hope you can experience it one day!

I know that I do have military families that follow me, I want to thank you/your soldiers for their service!

And to this particular B2 pilot…THANK YOU!

10/04/2024

This smile is just one of my “whys”!

Denise has been one of my best customers this season. She has gone above and beyond to provide feedback of how each type of flower or greenery is lasting. She has been a great resources when I have trialed new plants and included them in her bouquets.

When she asked for another bouquet, I asked her to come be my first You-Pick test customer! We had a great time chatting as she cut. I think the hardest part for her was deciding which blooms she wanted!

Denise… Thank you for everything! I appreciate you!

10/03/2024

🌸 New Dahlia Blooms! 🌸

This post is all about the little guys…The Pompons!

I have several cultivars of these that range from 1-2 inch heads. I call them bobble heads and I’m obsessed with how the look and behave in bouquets!

I look forward to adding more Poms cultivars to my stock for next season!

10/02/2024

I sure am going to miss these sunsets…..

Featuring Craig Charles and Giggles

10/01/2024

🌸 New Blooms Alert!🌸

BQ York is coming in at over 8 feet tall in the tunnel!

09/30/2024

Yesterday we finished harvesting potatoes from the veg garden. I planted Kennebecs for the first time this year. My husband’s family always grew them growing up on the farm so I wanted to give them a try. Production was great for being totally neglected all season. I’ll grow again if storage works well.

Another new one for me…purple inside and out. Can’t wait to make mashed taters with them. Production not so great with these though. They’ll have to be mighty tasty to win a spot in the garden again.

09/30/2024

When I got home from vacation I found this sexy little number waiting for me with her first blooms.

While taking log photos, I noticed her surprise on the back side…. Gorgeous striping!

She reminds me a lot of Manoa in that it’s a true dark red. No purple undertones. Dark foliage on thick dark stems.

Y’all my heart just loves the dark ones.

09/28/2024

Came home from a one week vacation to this jungle. Some are almost 9 ft tall!
This is wild y’all!

I’ll walk through the dahlia beds in the coming days and see which ones still haven’t bloomed, but there aren’t many. Nearly every plant is loaded!

09/25/2024

🌸 New Bloom Alert 🌸

They just keep coming!

Reposting Kogane Fubaki because the color improved so much with subsequent blooms. She’s a wild one! 😍

09/21/2024

🌸 New Dahlia Blooms! 🌸

Love them all in this group!

09/20/2024

What an incredible maternity shoot by Wild Honey Photography LLC!! A gorgeous mama and loving all those fall vibes!

09/19/2024

Out at dawn spraying for powdery mildew. And like usual…. waiting for this…

No matter how many times I see it, I still get excited and have a feeling of awe come over me. I won’t lie, there is a little bit of pride in there too. Is that bad?

Big Daddy and I, with our sons occasionally, worked so hard to get to where we are in this venture. It’s far from where we want to be, but we recognize even the dirt patches reflect water and power lines ….progress. Grass seed will come this fall if we ever get rain.

Sometimes I want it to hurry up so I can reach the finish line and be successful.

But do I even know what that is?

All of the education I need?
All of the new beds prepped and planted?
All of the florists and customers lined up buying?
All of the infrastructure built?
Everything picture perfect?

Or is it the answer to the big question….
Why were flowers brought into my life?
It was just supposed to be family wedding flowers.
This was someone else’s dream. Right?

I have to remind myself daily of the old saying about Rome.
Don continues to tell me that “It will come.” He knows I’m not very patient at times.

So I push through the blisters, the blood, the sun burns, the sore muscles and exhaustion, the anxiety and fears, the frustration and failures, the bug bites (oh the bug bites!!!)…. and more recently, uncertainty. Am I even doing this the correct way? The best way?

I push through until I realize small successes, the happiness of customers and friends, the progress, the plans come together, the goals reached and new dreams come to life naturally.

Until my heart feels and my eyes see IT.

7 months. We did this in 7 months!

I am happy 😊

09/18/2024

🌸 New Dahlia Blooms! 🌸
They are Pretty in Pink!

My favorite quote from the movie “Andie, hon. Listen, it’s after 7:00. Don’t waste good lip gloss.” ~ Annie Potts (Iona)

Anyone else love the movie too? 🙋🏼‍♀️

09/18/2024

Starting to get my second flush of Lisianthus!!

Interesting note…. Some are blooming MUCH shorter so far. About 12 inches. Those won’t be usable in arrangements if this continues. But there are some with buds that are taller too so I have some hope that I’ll have some usable stems before frost. Some of them were just cut down about 4 weeks ago so no buds on those yet. The rest were harvested randomly as they were ready.

Y’all might have noticed that I like to experiment and see what I can do that isn’t in the norm. Well I’ve decided to leave this group of Lisis in the ground to over winter in the tunnel and see what I have come back next spring. I’ll go ahead and start enough seedlings to replace them if needed, but I’m curious how they will fare.

Right now my plans are to dedicate at least one entire bed in the tunnel to Lisis next season. Possibly 2 beds. This season I had just over 1/3 of a bed.

Man I love these flowers and they certainly became a fan favorite for my customers!

** I included a photo of our first harvest of Lisianthus for those new to the page.

Make it a great day y’all!

09/18/2024

I had the sweetest little flower picker show up this afternoon. 🫶🏼 Charlee Kate loved the big fuzzy heads so we loaded her up. And of course Sir MoJo got all of the pets.

09/17/2024

Next season I will definitely be growing more orange and purples next to each other. Such a fantastic visual combo.

09/17/2024

🌸New Dahlia Blooms! 🌸

Bringing you the warm colors of fall this round. 🍁

09/16/2024

🌸New Dahlia Blooms!🌸
This one is all about the “Show Girls”!

09/15/2024

Working on some photos this afternoon…. and I just had to. 🤣

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Here we go! My fields are over flowing so I’ll cut as long as y’all want them! (Ignore the dried blooms. Those are my seed pods that I’ll snip off. Gotta have that seed! 😘)

Sleepy bees at sunrise. A morning walk among the dahlias. #RuthieMaeBlooms #locallygrownflowers #shoplocal #MissouriFlowers #Warrensburg #americangrownflowers #dahlia #dahliaseason #dahliablooms #cutflowers #wildflowers

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I grew massive Amaranth for the time this year. They are so cool!

Update to my Dahlia eating old mare….. We haven’t had to electrify the fence for these two in years. I guess it’s time to plug it in. I thought bug pressure was going to be my biggest pain this year. Little did I know….

All cleaned up walking out to meet my bestie for lunch…. Only to find our old mare eating my dahlias! 😡 So then I had to drag cattle panels over from the hog pen for a temporary fix. Fence is being moved tomorrow!

I’ve been so excited for the pompons to bloom. They are adorable little guys!

This weekends Market Bouquets!

This weekends wrapped market bouquets. So many flowers blooming now…They are stuffed FULL! If you have bought in the past… I have so many new things you need to see! This is the first week for Lemon Basil! Y’all! Let me tell you…this must be what Heaven smells like! Having one one just for the scent alone would be worth it! THANK YOU to everyone who bought flowers this week! I really appreciate your support! The Line Up: Sunflowers (3 varieties), Specialty Zinnias, Scabiosa, Asters, Gomphrena, Jewels of Opar, Love in a Puff, Salvia, Trumpet vine, Honeysuckle, The BEST Lemon Basil EVER.