Our dahlia patch is backyard-sized. Thanks for being patient with us.

The simplest answer we can give you is that, if you can grow tomatoes, you can grow dahlias. They like similar things. Dahlias want a lot of sun, a lot of water, and a lot of fertility. We grow ours with southern exposure and drip irrigation in raised mounds of soil that have been thoroughly prepped (and pooped on) by our chickens and ducks. We give them each a companion bean plant and dump dirty duck water on them for fertility. We pinch them once they’ve got about four sets of leaves. We weed them by hand for a month in May, and then mulch them with arborist wood chips and hope they outcompete the weeds for the rest of the season.

For more nuance, go to the library! Our favorite books on growing dahlias are Discovering Dahlias by Erin Benzakein at Floret Farm and Dahlia Breeding for the Farmer-Florist and the Home Gardener by renowned breeder Kristine Albrecht.

We also recommend joining your local dahlia society (ours is Whatcom County Dahlia Society) and going to their meetings. You’ll get access to experts who live near you, with their decades of experience on your exact growing conditions.

We lift clumps in December, divide in January, inventory in March, and sell/ship in April. We’ll choose a sale date based on the weather, and announce the date via social media and our email newsletter. Our online storefront will be offline for 24 hours before the sale, password protected during a 24-hour presale for our email subscribers, and open to the public the following day. If you want access to the presale, please subscribe to our email list (scroll all the way down to the footer of this page).

Our collection changes from year to year, but some popular and hard-to-find favorites that we anticipate offering in 2024 include Irish D Porter, Kelgai Ann, Sandia Isa, Bloomquist Tory P, and KA’s Snow Jo. We’re gradually uploading varieties to our online storefront as we divide and store them— they’ll all say ‘sold out’ until the sale opens, but you’re welcome to browse in the meantime!

Probably not. Our stock is limited. As we finish inventorying each variety during the week leading up to the sale, we’ll add the quantity available in 2024 to each variety’s description so that you can manage your expectations. The good news is, dahlias are prolific multipliers! If you get even one this year and keep it happy, you’ll have your ten in a year or two.

We will drop your order off at the post office on the Tuesday morning following the tuber sale. They will ship priority.

No, sorry. Our dahlia patch is too small for it to make economic sense to do the requisite phytosanitary certification.

We ship in priority flat rate boxes:

$10.40 for 1-4 tubers

$16.00 for 5-25 tubers

$21.85 for 26+ tubers

Yes, with a one-week pickup window immediately following the sale. If you select “local pickup” as your shipping option and don’t collect your tubers within one week, we’ll find them new homes, and no refund will be offered.

We only sell tubers with an intact neck and at least one eye. We can’t guarantee that they’ll grow for you, because that depends on the conditions you give them. But we do guarantee that they’ll arrive intact, so please open your package as soon as you receive it and contact us within 14 days if you notice any problems. We’ll do our best to make it right. Please note that sometimes tuber eyes are hard to see; a week at room temperature will usually “wake up” a tuber and help its eye(s) become more visible.

Our stock is NOT certified to be disease-free. It doesn’t make economic sense at our scale to send samples to a lab for disease testing. Instead of testing, we “rogue out” (pull up and remove from the property) any plants that look sick from August through the end of the season. We also use beneficial insects to control the aphid population (aphids are our main disease vector), and we sanitize cutting tools between plants.