I’m a driven, goal-oriented, spreadsheet-loving, list-writing person. I show up to work with a plan of action every day.But sometimes when the job at hand is big and I have too many big tasks on my plate (hello, farm life!), it can be hard to motivate myself to start...
Sharing beauty
THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
• the latest from Triple Wren •
Sharing beauty
THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
• the latest from Triple Wren •
Triple Wren in Santa Cruz
Earlier this month Steve and I zipped down to Santa Cruz to pick fresh lemons, gaze at the ocean for five minutes, feel the sun on our skin, and most importantly to meet Kristine Albrecht, of Santa Cruz Dahlias, and her lovely, supportive family and crew. It was...
Of What’s to Come
We're thinking and dreaming about what the coming seasons hold. Keep an eye on our events and workshops page for details on when we're open! You do not want to miss this!
On Letting Go of Rigidity
As our farm business plans expand and morph, I can see them reflected in our flower fields. They’re a beautiful echo of the direction we’re headed. And isn’t this a familiar echo?! We often set out with our best-laid plans, but desires, abilities, resources, markets,...
Rainbows on Their Way
We’re planting a rainbow of color in our front field this season, interspersing dahlias with annuals in a huge, rambling maze of beauty. We hope you’ll join us in August or September during a you-pick day or our Sept. 4 Dahlia Festival and enjoy it in person. Look on...
Growing On…
As we near the end of our annual tuber splitting marathon, photos like these keep us going! There are still approximately 123 days left until I hold these beauties again, and loads of wonderful work to be done between now and then. But I’m truly grateful for the work,...
Foxy Lady
This beautiful Foxy Lady dahlia is one variety I feel I just can’t get through summer without! She bridges colors in arrangements so well, and adds such a sweetness to anything we use her for. Check out more of our favorite bi-color dahlias in this short video!
Perennial Love
We’re pushing hard to finish dividing dahlia tubers by early next week (and we’re sooo close we can taste it!), but in spare moments we’re pruning roses, coppicing willow, cleaning up viburnum, physocarpus, snowberries, lilac, and smokebush, and generally getting our...
Beauty in Unexpected Places
The beauty we’ve unexpectedly found in our farming adventure - in partnering as spouses, as business-colleagues, as parents, as best friends, in working with these breathtaking blooms, in building sweet relationships with hybridizers and other farmers, in...
Winter Dreams of Spring
Some days I’m focused on living in the moment, content with the stark late-winter beauty at the farm...and some days I look at bouquets I made last spring and am filled with a deep, yearning longing for the lushness of BLOOMS!!! Late-winter is full of pruning,...
Blush & Buttercream Beauties
This blushy pink and buttercream yellow palette is sure singing to me these days. I’m certain we’ll be reaching for these hues often once flowers start flowing again at the farm! (Pictured: Labyrinth dahlias/Castle Drive dahlias/Procut White Lite sunflowers/Orsett...
Daydreams of Farm Visits
I wish all of you could come up to the farm just once in your lifetime and stand, drenched in the sun’s warmth, with your arms full of dahlias. I wish you could soak in the joy and peacefulness of that moment so you could treasure it up and remember it's beauty for...
Investing in What is Good
The tips of our daffodils are poking from the soil, the Indian plums are unfurling, and the forsythia is a fully formed parade... but our regular February cold snap is upon us... and I remember why this month helps me love winter. It’s usually our best chance of snow...
Beauty in the Deep
I remember the afternoon last summer that I finished my work early and wandered the fields, gathering these beautiful ingredients, mixing a palette of textures and colors into a just-right combination. Life sometimes has unexpected twists, as we all know, and the...
Sunshine for the Heart via Honey Dijon
Yesterday’s glorious sunshine gave way to buckets of PNW rain... so I’m showing you my warmest, most romantic “Honey Dijon” roses today to warm your heart! It may have been yucky outdoors, but our crew was snuggled in the barn dividing tubers all day! We’re meeting...
The Difference Between Dahlia Seeds and Dahlia Tubers
We love dahlias here at Triple Wren, and we sell their tubers (storage roots) to our flower-loving customers so they too can plant them and grow the flowers we grow here at the farm. It is so delightful to us to think about how the “babies” and...