Choosing Calm

Coralie from Hailey .merle.farm.

Coralie is also one of my top 5 favorite dahlias that I have grown this season. A perfect pink ombré 6” formal decorative dahlia with a pale buttercream interior in the petals. Coralie also has long darker stronger stems and enjoys a longer vase life. This is one special dahlia for me and will always be grown extensively in my field. I will be working to add more of this beauty next year.

I’m also going to be adding more Castle Drive - I think I have 3-4 plants of it but will wait until next season to get a true label on those.

Thanks Hailey my friend for these amazing tubers.

This is my life these days. Surrounded by beauty during peak dahlia season. Carrying buckets, filling buckets with water, talking about cleaning my SUV but not doing it, covered in mud, talking about dahlias, cutting dahlias, managing any bugs, disbudding dahlias and deadheading them and stacking them into bucket after bucket. Driving very slowly with the 18 full buckets of dahlias I can take home which is roughly 1000-1500 blooms per cutting. Asking my friends to help me bring some home if they can ( that’s for you!!). Then sorting and processing them at home. Then delivering and the other side of it. I’ve been thankful to have had some extra help the past few weeks because otherwise I couldn’t do this by myself.

I sometimes forget to eat. But I never forget to breathe all the dahlias in every day. This is the best season of all (for me) - dahlia season. It’s ephemeral and so dreamy. It will only last another few short weeks until frost and then we are left with the dahlia dreams until next season. And the hard work of digging tubers, dividing and storing them safely starts.

This is Camano Zoe from Jenny .

It is a smaller ball variety around 2-3” with the slightest pink tint. Cutting deeply on this plant helped the stems get considerably longer over the course of the season. I love the detail in her petals and color tones.