Learn the Art & Craft of Growing Dahlias
Welcome to the world's most beautiful hobby
We've spent more than a decade as a family learning the craft of caring for dahlias.
We hope you'll join us for one of our teaching workshops this season. Bring all your dahlia questions and get ready to explore!
This season's workshops:
Growing dahlias as cut flowers
How to store dahlia tubers (online course)
Workshops coming soon:
- How to fund your dahlia habit (Starting dahlia hobby businesses)
- Making floral wreaths
- Multiplying your collection with rooted cuttings
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On-Site Dahlia workshops
Online Courses
Harvest & Storage
Master the tuber harvest and storage process this year so you can plant your biggest cutting garden ever next year!
Dahlia Tuber Harvest & Storage
FULL DAY | October 24th and 25th
The key to winding up with more blooms than you know what to do with next summer is a skillful tuber harvest this fall and successful storage this winter.
Come learn the principles and hands-on skills you need to become a master divider and successfully store your tubers in your specific home environment. We'll even send you home with lots of tubers to trial your storage and seed your garden next spring!
Growing Dahlias as Cut Flowers
Learn everything you need to know for success with dahlias as cut flowers, on-site at the best classroom imaginable: a working flower farm at the peak of bloom season!
Dahlias as Cut Flowers
2 HOURS | Sep 13th & 27th | Oct 4th and 11th
The queens of the cut flower garden require a lot of thought and care to put on the jaw-dropping display they're famous for!
Whether you want to grow dahlias for show, to give as gifts to your friends and neighbors, or for your own enjoyment, we'll demystify the process and send you home with the confidence to cultivate your most productive garden ever next season.
Dig & Divide
Learn how to lift, wash, and expertly divide dahlia tubers with confidence so you can get the most out of the produce of your own garden!
Dig & Divide
2 HOURS | Nov 1st
We’ll teach you the most common mistakes new gardeners make that damage or even totally ruin their tubers while lifting and washing clumps, before the clumps even get to the dividing table.
Then you’ll get to practice your hands on skills dividing tuber clumps. You’ll practice on lots of OUR clumps first, then once you’re an expert, we’ll supervise while you divide your own.
How to Store Dahlia Tubers (watch now online)
Learn the secrets to successful winter tuber storage that will save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars, not to mention the frustration and heartbreak of storage failure!
Online masterclass
We'll teach you exactly what dahlia tubers need to store well and why all the different kinds of storage failure happen; how to create the perfect storage environment in your own home; exactly what containers and mediums to use, how to organize a large collection and more!
This class will help you skip years of trial and error. Predictably successful storage will kickstart your garden or even lay the foundation to begin your own dahlia business!