I've been drying flowers weekly from the season to make a giant wreath for the second year, but also decided to make some dried flower + pumpkin combos for some of the families in our neighborhood to pick up while they trick or treat. These three are for a friend who is recovering from a major surgery as I thought she could use some fall decor in the place she's staying during her recovery.

Got some new vases and filled a few up with little fall zinnias. Loving the blue and pink together.

This my first year growing cut flowers; normally I mostly stick to native perennials. Since I decided to in mid-June, mostly only zinnias took off, but at least 2 varieties of dahlias popped up. Cosmos were a bust, I only got foliage, and the only potential one my husband mowed because he thought it was a weed. 🙃

Here I have

-Alauna Clair Obscur dahlia

-Blue mistflower (native to my area, I thought the seed pods were fun since the flowers are mostly spent)

-My Love dahlia is my guess, it was my mislabel

-Endless summer OG hydrangea that’s antiquing nicely

-New England aster, another native

Two of my favorite humans on earth got married last weekend and I had the honor of being their farmer-florist! It was my first wedding as a professional and it was a gift to the couple, which was also great practice for me, and some really solid portfolio work.

I cut everything on Tuesday and packed up the farm vehicle and drove all the blooms two hours south! Many hands made this magic happen - myself, the couple, the bride’s sister, the best man, and one of my good friends took over another friend’s garage and made it into a pop-up flower shop for the week. It was such a delight! We made 80+ bud vases, 5 large vases, two urns, two bridesmaid bouquets, and the ceremony backdrop/arbor situation pictured above.

The callas, roses, and mini carnations came from Flower Moxie and the rest were grown by myself & another dahlia-obsessed colleague. The bride had ordered 50 Karma Chocolate dahlias from Flower Moxie, but the majority of them were unusable. They arrived as barely-cracked buds that were never going to open. Thankfully she received a refund for them, and thankfully I brought about a hundred gorgeous, mature dahlias.

I took almost no photos because of how busy I was! Thankfully a few came back from the incredible photographer last night with many more to follow.

I’m really proud of what we pulled off and what I made with my own hands ♥️

PHOTOS
1 & 2 by Foxspit Photography, Portland, ME
3 & 4 by my friend Audra 😜
5 by the maid of honor/bride’s sis

Dahlias keep pumping gorgeous blooms.

In this batch we have Miss Amara, Créme de Cognac, Lilac Time, Castle Drive, Quiet Splendor, Totally Tangerine, sport of Pink Gingham, Pink Gingham, Karma Prospero, Terracotta, Sun Kissed, Kelvin Floodlight, Cornel, and Sylvia in 3 stages of blooming.

Hope you all enjoy, would love to see your flowers too :)

Could they be overcrowded?

1 rip city
2 no idea lmk if you know
3 same i have no clue
4 maarn

Privet berries, wild rose hips, after dusk dahlia, thomas a Edison dahlia, unidentified dahlia (white one), Chopin roses, and unidentified red roses

Varieties: Dahlias (Takeoff, BQ Tory P, Pink Sylvia, 20th Ave Old Major, Caitlin’s Joy, Coralie), Pastel Mix Statice, & Raspberry Cream Gomprena

Back with more photos :)
Varieties included: Lilac time, bucket of blooms with Sylvia being most focused, Penhill Watermelon and Labyrinth, Cornel Bronze, Picasso, Park Princess - different stages of blooms, and Pink Sylvia.

Hope you all had great season this year! :) Dahlias are still pumping blooms here in NC

First image is of the harvest basket for the photo day, we got Salish Snow, Pink Sylvia, Seattle as most prominent. After that images are of: Créme de Cassis, Seattle, Touché, Pink Gingham, Kelvin Floodlight, Kelvin Floodlight (and me!) , Cornel, Polka, and Lilac Time.

I’m in Maine and want to buy bare root peonies to plant now (fall) for hopefully a spring bloom. Is this possible? Would love any and all insight!

Until the frost comes and I gotta put the garden to bed, at least the garden gets better every year.

I hope we get a couple more weeks of dahlias here in the PNW before the frost arrives. This is everything I cut last week, the colors are providing so much joy! Apple for scale 😅

Happy Fall, everyone!

Todays Best…

Has anyone ever had a zinnia plant produce these before?? I lovingly call them my fuzz balls lol but they don’t grow any further than this

Zinnias, L’ancresse dahlia, clarkia, dusty miller, lavender, salvia, lisianthus, forget me not, bachelor’s buttons. Scabiosa, ageratum

Varieties included: Cornel Bronze, Cornel, Isabel, Snoho Doris, Boom Boom White, Sylvia/Maarn, Boom Boom Yellow

My friend grew these in her garden. We don't know the variety but they are huge and beautiful. She's pregnant with her first baby girl 🩷