We’re super excited to announce that Triple Wren Farms has officially expanded into Canada! This year, Steve and Sarah are beginning to build what we hope will become a truly beautiful, thriving Canadian flower business that will eventually bring all our amazing varieties to gardens all over Canada. New Canadian Website In winter 2025, our […]
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Have you ever made a dahlia flat lay (aka “flatlay” according to Cambridge Dictionary, but I usually stick with two words here)? It’s easy to do with your extra blooms or “deadheads.” Your flowers don’t even need to look great on the back for this project! They just need beautiful fronts and they need to
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At Triple Wren, we plant about 50,000 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 also check every plant for pest damage and disease on a two-week rotation throughout the season. We weed manually and monitor for
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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 beautiful and help us keep our dahlias organized, they also: Favorite
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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 planted other
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It’s the first year of our exciting new Novice Hybridizer Program! We designed this program to help growers overcome the biggest barriers to sharing their dahlia creations with the world, and we are so pleased to introduce to you today the 8 dahlias beginning their journey here at Triple Wren. Each of these new hybrids started just
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From our earliest farming days, we’ve worked to build a sustainable farm. 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
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Here at Triple Wren, we get more questions about storing dahlia tubers than any other topic. This can be a hard part of dahlia growing for any gardener, so I wanted to tackle this topic today in hopes that it helps more of our flower friends to find success with their dahlia tuber storage. In
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This year, a mid-March windstorm + very frosty nights led to a high tunnel calamity… which was the end of most of our flower seedlings ???? In the moment, it felt like a disaster. In time however, a new and better idea emerged. Each year, we plant dahlias in our fields in long, 200-foot rows,
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This year a mid-March windstorm + very frosty nights led to a high tunnel calamity… which was the end of most of our secondary flower seedlings and a big chunk of our 2023 dahlia seedlings.It was a blow for sure, but as farmers the world around have always done, we picked up the pieces and
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