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View fullsize A black square for solidarity. I will continue to listen and learn, pay attention to my own actions, donate to causes that help support the BLM movement, support black-owned businesses and VOTE for candidates who will act on the changes we need
View fullsize Flowering is messy business. I always start off with neat and organized.... Who else is with me 🙋🏻‍♀️. Also, all of these blooms came from my garden.
View fullsize Getting my flower legs back with flowers from the market, the local farm and my cutting garden
View fullsize @digitalpetey needs some new boots and the last of dahlias. Looking forward to getting our big dig on and planning for next year’s planting.
View fullsize We cut down the dahlias this past Sunday in anticipation of this week’s frost. The real work will be over the next few weeks with digging and dividing the tubers. Here’s a new variety that we planted this year and one of my favorites, Par
View fullsize Reds and purples, oh my! Mystique, Ferncliff Rusty and Elsie Huston with a few market anthuriums. We are in love with almost every dahlia we grow, but sadly our season is coming to a self-imposed end this weekend. Sometimes the frost beats us to the
View fullsize A bucket of our brightly colored blooms — Ferncliff Rusty (a new favorite), Mystique, Audrey Grace (tomato red tucked way in the back), Maarn and Darcy. All keepers for next season.
View fullsize A little magic from the 28th St Flower Market mixed with some our best dahlias — Cafe au Lait, White Nettie, Gitts Attention, Wine Eyed Jill and Sweet Natalie
View fullsize Wine Eyed Jill greeting you on this sunny October morning
View fullsize A bucket of the prettiest blushes and soft sunlight
View fullsize Breakout deadheads. Lots of deadheading this weekend.
View fullsize Offshore. New variety for me this year and it’s a total keeper!
View fullsize It’s almost midweek in the city and I’m hoping my dahlias survived today’s rain. Here are a few of my favorites: 1) Breakout, 2) Sweet Natalie, 3) Cafe au Lait, 4) Hamilton Lillian (left) sharing secrets with Rock Run Ashley (right)
View fullsize When your bouquet matches your shirt but it was completely unintentional 🤷🏻‍♀️. Here are Offshore (lt pink), Lyn’s Brooke, Run Rock Ashley, Hamilton Lillian, Pale Orange, Darcy mixed with hydrangeas, sedum and zinnias.
View fullsize Dahlia daze. The plants haven’t quite reached peak bloom but we’ve already cut 5 buckets this weekend and 3 last weekend. And I even downsized the number of plants from last year!
View fullsize September! The start of fall and dahlia season. Our little dahlia field is about to pop off and reward us for all the work we put into prepping, fertilizing and weeding our beds all spring and summer long. Here are Elsie Huston, Barberry Banker and R
View fullsize My best nine for 2017. Happy New Year’s! Thanks for following along!
View fullsize We ended dahlia season last week. Sad to see these babes go but are looking forward to next year. We are thinking about selling tubers this season once everything has been dug and divided. Let us know if you’d be interested.