Here’s a little Bloomquist Pleasing for your evening! All the Bloomquist dahlia tubers in our store are part of the Legacy Collection at Triple Wren. We have worked hard to provide the hybridizers represented in our 2021 Legacy Collection with fair compensation for their craft, and have freed them up from the task of producing […]
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Triple Wren is introducing a Flower Steam Facial! {We’ve bottled up summer at the flower farm for your aromatherapy and skin treatment needs. Enjoy glowing skin year round with our Flower Steam Facial, made with dried flower petals, herbs, and berries from Triple Wren Farms. Ingredients include rose petals, dahlia petals, chamomile, chocolate mint, lemon
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At Triple Wren, we are passionate about doing good in our industry by not only the way we grow, but by the way we help others grow. We’ve been given an incredible heritage of dahlia beauty to use and enjoy, and in keeping with the core values of Triple Wren Farms, we intentionally seek to
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This photo from the first year at our own farm holds so many memories. Photographer Ben Bender came over at dawn to capture us working, and we were so weary. It was near the end of our hardest season, and our bodies were tired, our nerves frayed. Looking back, those difficult days helped shape us and our
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Our business plan has shifted a lot over the past few years, And we’re growing fewer spring cuts as a result. All in all the changes are lovely and positive… EXCEPT… somehow we did not grow ranunculus this year. And guess what? I miss them fiercely! Ordering now for next season. {Hot tip: did you
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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 chipping away at it all. My
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 fantastic to see how they grow their
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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, all can change in an instant. If we’re smart, we
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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 understanding more deeply year by year the intricacies and mysteries of God’s creation in the plant world –
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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 goals and imagining blooms, and as I put the
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