🌻💛✨ WINNERS ANNOUNCED ✨💛🌻
• Dianna Vanweerdt Enders
• Jessica Vierzen
Thank you SO much for all the love, shares, and interactions with this giveaway!
I have a hard time leaving people out with things like this, so maybe I'll have another giveaway later in the season 🤭
I am so thankful to have something beautiful to share with others in honour of Julia. Of course, I don't create or own the flowers... The Lord gives the increase, I merely steward their growth and arrange things. I hope that the winners of these subscriptions enjoy the beauty, and are reminded of the impression and impact that a life can have one so many people.
✨🌻 These Summer Subscriptions are each 6-weeks. Beginning mid-July and extending through August. Local Pick Up and Delivery are both offered, depending on the preference of the winner.
✨🌻 WINNERS- please PM me your email to confirm your Subscription. By doing this, I will then email you the link to redeem your subscription. If I don't hear from you by this evening, I will choose another name ☺️
Thank you everyone. I truly appreciate it.
A special thank you to Julia for her life, the memories we share, and the time we were able to spend together. A heartfelt thank you to her parents for putting their heart and soul into raising the Julia I knew. Above all, thank you to the God of all, that gave life to Julia, and is teaching so many the depths of His true Grace through Julia Grace 💛✨🌻
Have a wonderful day, friends
💛🐦 Esther
Entering a new growing season, it’s so tricky to maintain a present mindset, when the last season held so many new things that meant so. much.
2023 was for new flowers, gateway flowers. It was for learning and growing in aspects of life I assumed to have been 100% in. It was a year where the flowers represented myself more than I could express.
A beautiful, full chaotic, and flowery year. Praying this season holds all of that, and so much more! 💐❤️
Though it seems super late for me to share this video, and how I dig up my tubers …. The reality is, many people are just now digging their dahlia tubers up. And that is 100% alright.
Last week I dug all my dahlia up and set them in our barn to dry for a few days. I lost count of how many dahlias I grew, so you don’t get a grand total 🤭
When I dig my dahlia tubers up, I use a pitch fork and begin digging pretty far from the plants stem. Just to make sure I don’t pierce any of the tubers. I gently pull the tuber clump up while holding the stem and pulling the pitch fork up. But of course, as the job goes long, and my back starts hurting, I sort of just pop them out of the ground 🙈
After they were all dug up, I laid them in the grass to dry for that day (it was the last beautiful, warm and sunny Fall day 🍂). If you are start getting ready to dug up your tubers, I’d recommend setting them in a barn or garage to dry for a few days before packing them away. Just keep them away from extreme elements.
Today I finished packing away all my tubers. I am trying something different, but that’s for another post 🙃
I am SO thankful for the yield of tubers that the Lord blessed me with this season. It is truly remarkable how drastically different the tuber production looks compared to last year. Only my God could multiply a single little root into a huge mass of roots and future dahlia plants ❤️
Tuesday, October 17th 2023
The last dahlia harvest. The last day with the dahlias.
I supposed it was time to rest, even if there was no forecast of frost.
It was a beautiful day to be along the dahlias for the last time. After cutting 7 buckets of the beautiful blooms, I set off to cut down the dahlia plants. I do this do that it signals the to the tubers to begin resting and not putting so much energy into flower production. I cut the stalks down to about 6”, so that it’s sort of a handle when I go to dig the tuber clumps up.
Typically, I wait until the first frost blackens the leaves and kills off the plant…. Yet since there is no frost in the forecast, I went ahead and just cut everything down. I was ready 😅
Now that everything is cut down, I will begin the digging process over the next week. No rush to this. I am very excited to see how the tubers fared over this season. The Lord is always so Good in this, and multiplying the tubers is always such a crazy thing to me.
🌸 Today I will be making the last dahlia bouquets of this season. Adding the last of the snapdragons, zinnias and lisianthus, these bouquets will have little to no greenery (it’s basically mid-October. There is no greenery alive, okay?)… So lots of pretty stuff. These last shebang bouquets are $20. I will be offering delivery for an additional $10. Feel free to PM me or comment below! 👇🏾
🌸 Peep my awesome Rocky shirt. I find that I am wearing it whenever I have some serious work to get done. Seems fitting 🙈
Have a wonderful day, friends!
❤️🍁 Esther
Last night brought the first Frost, signaling the end of the season for the dahlias and the cut annuals.
I have very much enjoyed growing dahlias this year, the beauty was immense... Despite the pleasure of this all, I am more than ready to lay the garden to rest and get things in order for next season! There are some new things I have planned for 2023, and am so excited to see how the Lord will guide and provide.
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What a beautiful day we had today! Eleanor and I got the dahlias cut down, where they will rest for the next week. After that, the laborious task of digging, drying, packing labeling and storing the tubers will commence.
I am so thankful for the abundance we had this year! So much beauty and growth 🍁
