Choosing Calm

2021 season 1 images from Choosing Calm Farms.

I’m so proud of what I’ve done with a lot of help this season. I’ve learned a lot and am still harvesting our blooms - 1000s of them per week.

So many reasons why the Queen of the dahlias is known as the Café au lait. This café is from Kristine Karoline Sly] who has been a delight to work with this past season.

Café au laits start the season with blooms in the middle of the plant but if you start cutting deeper and deeper stems you’ll find yourself with a 24” stem soon enough. Karoline Karoline Sly] any other tricks you also find helpful here to develop longer stems?

I grow 125 or so of these informal decorative dinner plate beauties. It’s the first dahlia most people ask for and it’s often for a center focal point flower in a bridal bouquet. It’s blush and beige tones change over the season and within even the same plant as you can see from this photo. I’ve had some blooms be at least 10” wide and also a bouquet in themselves. Also note here that I’m cutting my dahlias with 75% open petals which is the ideal stage to cut the majority of dahlias at for prolonged vase life.

I also grow Café au lait rose and Café au lait royal.

Thanks Karoline for these fabulous dahlia tubers. 🤍

Obsessed.

Love this dahlia tulipiere arrangement by April Bridgeman. April sure knows how to pull together a dramatic foyer and I’m here for all of it. Hopefully your Friday night will be as fun as it is in this home tonight.

It’s the final swan song of the dahlias for the next week and I’m seeing a pretty good weather forecast for the next week. If you are interested in creating extra big dramatic bouquets or creating your own from an abundant bucket of dahlias let me know.

Enjoy your Friday night!

Sandia Brocade from Mara .

I’m in love with pretty much every anemone I grow (which is a fair number). This season my favorite anemones have been Platinum Blonde, Sandia Brocade and Aubergine. They have all bloomed prolifically and add everything unusual into an arrangement or bouquet.

Sandia Brocade is a larger 3” peachy toned anemone and almost looks like there are hundreds of little bird beaks pointing out of the centers.

We are celebrating Wednesdays tomorrow as we are not going to the farmer’s market this week.

I’ve got abundant dahlia bouquets for pick up on my front porch tomorrow morning after 8:30 am.

Payment via Venmo, Sqaure or exact change. I have a very limited number of bouquets available.

Pm me if you’d like me to hold one for you or comment here!

First come first with a bouquet. 💕