Our annual Dahlia Festival is just 3 weeks away! Here at Triple Wren Farms, we welcome guests from all over the U.S. and Canada to walk through our dahlia aisles, to touch the plants, pick the blooms, peek at seedling trials, explore almost 600 dahlia varieties, see...
Sharing beauty
THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
• the latest from Triple Wren •
Sharing beauty
THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
• the latest from Triple Wren •
Cultivate Christian Women’s Evening at Triple Wren Farms
https://vimeo.com/731493723 We create a beautiful Christian Women’s Evening each summer at the farm. It’s a lovely event, full of beauty, and holds a really special spot in our hearts! This year, we invite you to join us at Triple Wren Farms on August 13, 2022, at...
Pinch to Keep Dahlias Blooming Consistently
https://vimeo.com/730008379 We pinch our dahlias to achieve a consistent flow of blooms throughout the season. One of the biggest benefits of growing dahlias is their “cut & come again” trait, but this quality really only exhibits when young plants are properly...
What We Do At Triple Wren
https://vimeo.com/731489550 Welcome to Triple Wren Farms! We are husband/wife business partners who live & farm on 20 beautiful acres in Western Washington state, growing hundreds of varieties of dahlias (and other flowers!) so we can sell tubers and flower seeds...
Ombre photo backdrop
https://vimeo.com/731492058 I’ve had an idea floating around in my head for over a year, and today I finally took time to play with it. I grabbed this old door that we replaced when we fixed up our farmhouse and painted a “first draft” ombre photo backdrop. If you can...
How We Grow Dahlias from Seed
https://vimeo.com/711318190 We hybridize and save our own dahlia seed each year, then plant it the next season to develop new dahlias. (It looks a lot like zinnia seed, and it is planted in a similar way.) We start our seeds in late winter in the greenhouse, 1 seed...
Planting out seedlings for our hybridization projects
https://vimeo.com/711321061 When it’s time to plant out the first-year seedlings from our ongoing Dahlia Hybridization Project, we trench a 8” wide x 6” deep trough in our field for each row of babies. Then we take each 4” pot with its soil and 1 seedling, and plant...
How We Grow Ranunculus at Triple Wren
https://vimeo.com/730401638 Steve gave me ranunculus corms for Christmas. You might think I’d be tired of flowers as presents… but no way. I still love them!We planted them in January and it’s been the sweetest anticipation waiting together for them to bloom.We plant...
Dahlias All Year at Triple Wren
https://vimeo.com/711306586 At Triple Wren, we work with dahlias 12 months out of the year. It’s an annual cycle for us and our team:Plant, Grow, Bloom, Frost, Dig, Wash, Divide, repeat.And it’s really a labor of love to multiply and share this beauty with our flower...
Tips for Planting Rooted Dahlia Cuttings
If you purchase rooted dahlia cuttings (or make your own!), you're in for such a treat. Growing dahlias from these small plants is a fun and easy way to enjoy dahlias in your garden. Often blooming before tuber-planted dahlias, rooted cuttings bloom and grow...
Planting Dahlia Tubers for Beginners
Are you new to planting dahlias? Let us show you how we do it at Triple Wren! Despite being a large scale grower, all our dahlias are lovingly prepared and planted by hand. This lets us keep our literal fingers on the pulse of our dahlias’ health and gives us the...
Exactly What You Need for Cut Flower Gardening Success
Today, I’m going to walk through a very specific and detailed plan that harmonizes everything taught in this Garden Planning for Success series. Our Priority Goal was to grow flowers to create 15 bouquets a week from June to September. If I had only one 100’ by 4’...
Our Favorite Foliage for the Best Bouquets
If you want to have bouquets that really shine, you need three key ingredients: focal flowers, filler flowers, and foliage. Obviously our favorite focal flowers are dahlias (in all their many forms!), but we have favorite filler flowers and foliage too. We've written...
Spacing Between Plants in Your Cut Flower Garden
As we continue in our Garden Planning for Success series, today we’re talking about spacing between plants in a growing area. Within your flower beds, spacing for your plants varies, but keep in mind that you can usually crowd cut flowers a bit more than you'd expect....
Planning a Cut Flower Garden to Effectively Use Your Space
In this Garden Planning for Success series, we've covered what to grow and now, let’s talk growing space! So how DO you create a garden plan that effectively uses your space? If you have at least 100 square feet to grow in (imagine a 4’x25’ space), I recommend...
Succession Planting is Key to Having Cut Flowers All Summer
Cherry Caramel Phlox Snow Puff Cosmos In our Garden Planning for Success series I’ve mentioned the term “succession planting,” and today I’d like to give a simple example or two of how this type of planting/planning can work. Remember, the Big Goal we’re working...