Serenade Dahlias Honesty Stall

Name: Serenade Dahlias Honesty Stall
Address: 103 Beacon Road, Tamborine Mountain, QLD, 4272, AU
Telephone: +61448979788

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20/06/2026

Happy Winter Solstice dahlia friends ☀️ (or Summer Solstice to lucky growers in the northern hemisphere!)
My dahlias are mostly dormant now, but a few silly seeds have germinated in the patch with all the unseasonal warmth and rain we’ve had.. I’ll just leave them be for the next few months and if they survive the rest of winter then they deserve to be cultivated on to have their blooms assessed on longer days.
Still glowing from all the connection at national dahlia conference, but taking it easy because I also managed to bring home a head cold and am a bit of a snot monster 🤪
Still quite a bit of work to do grading and packing up all the seeds before I list them for sale, and my next book is getting closer, but still doing a final edit on that too.
All the best to those working hard in cold sheds dividing tubers. I’ll be leaving mine in for another month or two - probably on track to start digging/dividing/replanting in mid-August.
I won’t be selling any tubers or plants at all this year. For the new Serenade releases make sure you are following my amazing dahlia friend Mardi - West Gippsland Flower Farm, as Mardi will be releasing these in the coming months.
Enjoy your shortest/longest day of the year and always good to remind yourself what this means to dahlias since they are day length sensitive. As our days lengthen (or shorten) to 12hrs at equinox this will send triggers to our dahlias to either initiate growth (lengthening days) or to bud up and develop storage (shortening days).. Understanding this connection explains lots of the mechanisms in our plants, and their intrinsic seasonality.
I’m planning a very quiet gentle winter solstice with lots of cups of tea to try and get over this headcold. What are you doing with your solstice? ☀️

📸 third photo is one of my favourite seedlings from this last season 25-018(725) that I’m looking forward to waking early to take winter cuttings from so I can grow lots for my florists this year. That sneaky little touch of lemon through the white is quite fun 🤩
Second photo is the winter sunrise on the beach at Coffs Harbour where our dahlia conference was held. ☀️

18/06/2026

A big sigh of contentment/exhaustion/full heart after such a special time at the national dahlia conference.
For any introvert that much intense people time is incredibly draining, (and I certainly will need a bit of time back in the garden to recharge), but I enjoyed every single engagement and conversation and dahlia story we shared. The presentations were great of course, but honestly it was spending time with all these passionate people that was my favourite part 🥰
I took a few photos of a beautiful sunrise beach walk on the first morning before the conference started and then didn’t even think to document again because I was too busy immersed in every moment.
The huuugest thank you to Dahlia Society of NSW & ACT volunteers who worked so hard to make it happen, and every person who attended and made it so special.

08/06/2026

Even though I overwinter my dahlias, I’ve just been digging a select few cultivars to take with me to the national dahlia conference next week to donate to the legendary tuber auction!
One of the tubers up for grabs is the gorgeous ‘Serenade Buttercream’ and when I dug this particular little clump I had to take the opportunity to show you why I always recommend planting your cutting-grown plants deep.
As you can see (if you swipe to second slide), there is the original little clump at the bottom, which formed from the first roots. But higher up, from another node, three lovely tubers have formed, all with great looking eyes popping out from their crown. So I’ve maybe doubled or more the number of viable tubers from this plant just by digging a deeper hole and covering the stem over those next few nodes. Plus the plant was more stable with that extra depth too.
It’s such a simple easy hack to multiply your tubers!

05/06/2026

Dahlia seeds are coming soon! We’ve been making sure our seed is thoroughly dry, and grading it all by hand. We’re just taking a few weeks to do germination tests now to be confident we are packing up the very best seed for you 🥰
I’m also putting the finishing touches on the design of my new book which will be released at the same time as our seed sale, so hoping to get that uploaded and a proof printed off in the next week or so.
Luckily there’s still oodles of time before the optimal seed germination window in Spring. I like to wait until Spring Equinox before I start my seed, to align with the natural seasonal cues, to give optimal root growth and the best flowers to assess.

01/06/2026

When it comes to petaloids in your dahlias are you team texture or team contrast? 🤔
I began my petaloid breeding journey looking for contrasting colour petaloids (like the second photo) but I’ve now also fallen in love with the seedlings I’m developing that have same colour petaloids as the main petals that just add texture and extra floof to the bloom aesthetics.
Do you have a preference? Which way do you lean?

29/05/2026

Just over two weeks away until the Australian national dahlia conference at in Coffs Harbour!

I’ll be presenting a session on Tuesday after lunch and discussing hybridisation strategies, assessing your dahlias, and giving more insights to developments in my Serenade breeding lines and ongoing breeding goals.

If you are planning to attend let me know in comments as I’d love to put faces to insta-handles when we get to meet in person. 🥰

And don’t forget to pack in your swimmers- it might be winter, but I think I’ll try to sneak in a couple of early morning beach swims while I’m there -anyone going to join me? 🌅🌊☀️

23/05/2026

The final evaluation criteria I assess with my first year seedlings each season is tuber development.
Normally I wouldn’t dig my tubers up this early, as in our climate & latitude where our days aren’t so short (currently 10.5hrs and we bottom out at 10hrs at solstice, compared to places like Melbourne that get down to 9hrs) and our temperatures are also nowhere near so cold. For those reasons I usually like to leave mine in longer to harden up more. I’ll still be leaving most of mine in the ground until Spring to avoid the bother of storing. However with the unseasonably wet weather (we ended up with 225mm rain last weekend!), I decided to lift a couple of irreplaceable first year seedlings. Most have been absolutely fine, but one of them had a reasonable amount of rot through around half the tubers, so it was a good thing that one came out of the wet cold soil before that rot spread further.
This seedling in the photos comes close to my favourite for the season, and the one that definitely scored highest in all criteria. And if you scroll to the second last photo, it seems she excelled in tuber production too, making large tubers (that don’t have long skinny necks like her mum which is a relief!) and especially considering how early I had to dig, the tubers seem robust and hard and look like they will store really well too!
As a bonus, I also have a nice little backup of Autumn cuttings tucked into my grow room that all have roots and growing happily and one larger healthy plant from a cutting I took in February that I’ve just potted up and brought outside to get a bit more growth in so I can use it as a mother plant for more cuttings.
So this beauty at least is safe and sound and tracking beautifully. Perhaps she will be the first of my petaloid seedlings to be released in a few years time. What do you think? Would you like to grow her one day? 🥰✨💕

20/05/2026

launched the new range of stamps this week featuring Australian bred dahlias! I was delighted to be asked to have one of my cultivars included on the minisheet. ‘Serenade Whisper’ is a seedling from my very first year of breeding, and although not visible in this particular photo, she sometimes has petaloids between her petals too. Did anyone manage to get first day release stamps from this collection?
I love that Aussie breeders are being acknowledged in this way. Biggest thanks to who consulted with auspost on this project.

15/05/2026

It’s mid-May and my dahlias should be heading well into dormancy now as Winter is just around the corner.. but there are a few belligerent seedlings, (interestingly most from the same line, so likely an inheritable trait) that are still delivering full-petalled, tight centred blooms! Look at this cheeky first year seedling (open pollinated from Serenade Buttercream seed collected last year, see seed parent in the last slide) showing utter disdain for the short days and cold nights 😜
It’s another beautiful example of the variability of dahlia genetics in action, and reason to breed dahlias to be adapted to your specific climate.
Farm news - despite very unseasonal May rain, we’ve managed to harvest a bounty of beautiful mature dahlia seed (which I’ve very carefully planned the hybridisation for), and Jon has begun the process of packaging it up. It is a tedious, a time consuming job. He checks every single seed for firmness and fullness and counts them out for packaging. I don’t have the patience for it, so I’m busy writing the next “Curiosity” instalment. I’m really hoping to have it published in time to offer with our with our exciting dahlia seed collections in the coming month before the national conference.
I promise to update here as it gets to print stage - it’s so exhilarating to be back writing again!

11/05/2026

A bucket of petaloid seedlings from a quick late-season photoshoot I did a couple of weeks ago before we lost the last of the blooms. ✨💕
I’m gathering together the content for my newest print project which I’ll be announcing in the next few weeks, and I’m beyond excited to show it to you when I’m finished.
We’re also harvesting, drying and packing up our special Serenade lines of seed and I’m delighted to say that we’ll have plenty to sell this year. I know a lot of people missed out on the Serenade dahlia seed last season, so it’s great to have a lot more to share this time around. Just keep interacting with this account (like, comment, share) so that the algorithms keep serving up my posts to your feed so you are the first to hear when I list them on the website.
We’ll have lots of options- you can choose from specific seed parents, or from my breeding hubs (including petaloid hub, the Alicorn pastel rainbow line, the Moondance hub, and others), or if you’d like to just roll the dice with me I will also have lots of my Serenade mix, which comes from all the best dahlias in our main cutting patch.
There is always something to get excited about with dahlias, whatever the time of year, and as we harvest this amazing seed, it’s that enormous potential contained in those tiny little packages that makes my heart sing 🥰✨💕

Address

103 Beacon Road
Tamborine Mountain, QLD
4272

Telephone

+61448979788

Website

http://serenadefarm.com.au/

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