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.
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THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
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Sharing beauty
THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
β’ the latest from Triple Wren β’
How to Keep Dahlias Fresh For a Wedding or Event
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.
Buy These Dahlia Tubers for Best Market Blooms
In the early days of Triple Wren Farm, we used to sell thousands of dahlia bunches every week to wholesalers and grocery chains. I well remember the days when I used to deliver buckets of flowers out of the back of our station wagon! If you are looking to expand into...
Grow Your Flower Business: Market your Dahlias
Another important aspect of providing dahlias as a successful market crop is how you approach marketing them. (Make sure to check out our other posts about best practices for long lasting blooms and recommended dahlias for market blooms.)From packaging to clearly...
Best Practices to Ensure Long Lasting Dahlia Blooms for Market
If you are looking to expand into dahlias as a market crop, here is our best advice for processes and infrastructure to ensure the best looking and longest lasting blooms. Make sure to also check out our posts on marketing and recommended dahlia varieties that have...
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...
Winter Seed Sale!
Amaranth "Hot Biscuits"Celosia "Flamingo Feathers"Phlox "Cherry Caramel""Glass Gem" CornFoxgloveAmaranth "Green Tassels" and "Coral Fountain" What do all of these have in common? They're all available in our Winter Seed Sale! Weβre really excited to offer 20 seed...
Our Favorite Filler Flowers for Fantastic Bouquets
We love making a big beautiful bouquet. To make a truly fantastic bouquet, you need three key elements: focal flowers, secondary flowers, and foliage. Even though the stars of a "bouquet show" are usually big, showy blooms like dahlias, peonies, roses, lilies,...
Fun with Foxglove
The magic of foxglove season is beginning here in the PNW, where it grows wild, hiding near blackberries in the woods or sweetly springing up around the back steps of abandoned farmhouses. We have grown lots of hybrid digitalis (foxglove) in our fields over the years,...
Business Planning for Flower Farms: Making a Market
The 4th step in our successful business plan process is the one that we as producers and growers may feel least in control of, but there are several planning stages and objective steps you can accomplish. Today Iβm talking about Making a Market for your Business...
What do you grow at Triple Wren… and what do you do all winter??
Probably the two most frequently asked questions we receive here at the farm are, "What kind of things do you grow at your farm?" and "But what do you do all winter?!" Sometimes, it's a little hard to explain. We grow over 100 kinds of flowers at our cut flower farm,...
Flower Recipe: The Joy of Spring
Here's another "Flower Recipe" to make your heart sing with expectation of spring's beauty! Do you long to grow flowers like these in your own garden? We have big plans in the works to help make your dreams come true. If you want to be the first to know what's up,...
Flower Recipe: Color Riot
'Tis the season for making and baking, and since the weather outside truly is frightful, the farm kids and I are busy creating treats inside by the fire. The high flower season at our farm is the antithesis of these cozy, comfy days. Sometimes when my meal plan falls...
