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Have you been picking your dahlias this year? We hope so! Here are the three reasons we think you should be cutting your dahlia blooms. Cutting Your Dahlias is Good for the Plants Did you know that it’s good for your dahlia when you pick the blooms? Harvesting the...
Did you know that after your dahlia blooms fade, seed pods can form? If your flowers are well-pollinated, after the pods turn dry and papery, you can harvest lovely seeds to plant next spring. Each one will be a unique, hybrid dahlia, often looking nothing like its...
It might seem early, but this summer is actually the perfect time to begin preparing next year’s cut flower garden. You may still be in the dreaming phase of growing dahlias, or you may be planning to expand your dahlia patch. You may even be considering growing...
At Triple Wren, we plant thousands of dahlia plants in the ground each year. Despite our long rows and larger scale production, we still plant every tuber and rooted cutting by hand! We check every plant for pest damage and disease on a two-week rotation throughout...
The heritage of your dahlia seeds determines the quality of your seedlings.
It might seem obvious, but a seedling garden with a plenty of lush open-centered dahlias (think Apple Blossom, Bloomquist Simple, and Totally Tangerine) will tend to produce more open-centered seedlings than a dahlia patch that is planted only with fully-double dahlias.
It can be so frustrating when pests munch on your beautiful dahlias! It's important to have an overall Integrated Pest Management Plan (IPM), but when certain pests visit your garden, here are some solutions you could try. Rabbits Rabbits love young, tender dahlias!...
Perhaps you are providing flowers for a friend’s wedding or another event, and you need to keep your flowers looking fresh and beautiful for the special day. Maybe you just want your kitchen bouquet to last as long as possible so you can enjoy it. Whatever your reason for wanting long-lasting dahlias, we can help. Here are our best tips for getting the most vase life out of your flowers.
Every single dahlia you love was once a seedling in a hopeful gardener's dahlia patch. Dahlias are really rewarding to grow from seed. They’re easy to start, they bloom within a few weeks, and if you keep them harvested, they’ll bloom their sweet little heads off all...
Here’s how to take care of your dahlias in the early summer before they bloom, but after they’ve started growing.
We want you to grow the most beautiful dahlias you've ever had! Here are links to all of the blog articles we've written about how to successfully grow dahlias. How to Plant Dahlia Tubers Healthy Soil is the Key to Healthy Dahlias How Much Space Do Dahlias Need? How...
What is “pinching” a dahlia? Pinching a dahlia is simply removing the top portion of your dahlias plant right above a node. You can do this with your fingers or a pair of snips. We pinch our dahlias when plants are about 8”-12” tall and it doesn’t hurt the plant at...
Looking for information about how to water your dahlias? We can help! Keep reading to find out all about how to successfully water your dahlias. Wait to Water Until Dahlias Start Sprouting Did you know that dahlia tubers don’t absorb water? Their feeder roots absorb...
Every year, we co-plant thousands of beautiful annuals in our dahlia fields! We plant them between the dahlia varieties, often blocking them by color (so fun!), which gives us a “hard stop” between dahlia varieties at harvest time. Not only are the annual flowers...
How you space dahlias in your garden is important. If you give them too much space, you won’t be able to fit as many dahlias into your garden. If you space them too closely, they might not have enough room to grow and disease might plague your dahlias because of lack...
Our first days of learning to farm were spent in a beautiful apple orchard. It was a gift in so many ways, and we learned so much about farming a monocrop on acres and acres of land. One big lesson we learned was that the primary crop was happier and healthier when we...
This is the 9th year we've grown dahlias in the big front field on our own farm. We grew them at another location for 5 years before that, and in both locations we've done a few things to keep our dahlia healthy and to avoid treating them like a mono-crop. We've...