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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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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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 dahlias as a market
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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 communicating what you have available and when, to building relationships with buyers and merchandisers,
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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 worked well for us in the past at Triple
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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 about our favorite filler flowers and now we’d like to share with
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What do all of these have in common? They’re all available in our Winter Seed Sale! We’re really excited to offer 20 seed varieties this year from our family flower farm, including more Bloomquist Dahlia Seeds, Black Scabiosa, Blue Didiscus, Caramel-Cherry Phlox, our favorite amaranths, Celosia, and ✨✨✨ Triple Wren Blends of our long-stem Sweet
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, orchids, or sunflowers, their beauty is set off even more by the “supporting
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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, and have slowly selected and saved seed from the
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 I’m talking about Making a Market for your Business Plan. This thinking might feel backward, because who would
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