Serenade Dahlias Honesty Stall

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

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05/09/2026

Something new and exciting is blooming at Serenade Farm this Spring!

SERENADE Dahlia Grower's Retreat 📅 Saturday 31 October 🕙 10am – 3pm 📍 Tamborine Mountain

Join me in person for an enriching experience for dahlia growers ready to dig deeper this Spring.
You’ll be empowered with knowledge to set yourself up for a successful season, and given tools to strategise against whatever challenges arise. Our focus will be on finding what works for your specific growing situation, and aligning with your personal goals. �We’ll discuss optimal growing conditions and and techniques and the common pests & diseases, propagation and hybridisation. I’ll also guide you through detailed reflection on where dahlias fit into your life - whether that be personal self care, a creative outlet, or for those interested an income producing “hustle with heart”.�Held in a beautiful venue on Tamborine Mountain, we’ll share lunch together and have the opportunity to connect with other like minded growers.�On top of all this learning, you’ll leave with tools to continue the journey, including a beautiful full-colour resource workbook, and a new-release Serenade dahlia tuber to bloom into your new season.

Nurture your curiosity. Cultivate your craft. Bloom with joy this season.

Full details and booking link to follow this week once we finalise the venue booking, but for now, save the date and stay tuned for updates!

01/09/2026

Springtime busy! Such beautiful warm weather heralding the start of Spring!
Days are full, and bodies are working hard, and the to do list is relentless at this time of year!
Tuber planting has begun here (although sooooo many still to dig and divide!)
The propagation room is starting to fill with cuttings of my favourite contenders from the breeding program.
I’m also getting closer to starting this year’s seed germination. I’ll be growing my seed in natural light and direct sun, so with only a few weeks until Spring Equinox the days are long enough to support optimal growth of my tiny seedlings, and with days warming up here it’s looking perfect.

Also thank you for all the feedback from my stories.. I’m busy thinking and planning something very exciting! As soon as I get all my little dahlia ducks in row I’ll let you know more ♥️✨💕🌸

Images are of ‘Serenade Baroque’ heading into her second season. She’s making me work hard to keep her, but looking safe now. I also have some hand pollinated seed that I’ve collected from her plus used her pollen in some other crosses.. so I’m excited to see if some of those delicious genes get passed on!

27/08/2026

‘Serenade Moondance’ is a lovely big fluffy ruffly bloom that I’ve been growing for four years now. Mardi from Mardi - West Gippsland Flower Farm has been building up stock so that we can let her out wild into the world, so I hope you’re on her email list if you’re hoping to add her to your collection 🥰
To get the deep round blooms that you see in most of these photos, she does need some cool days… I find she’ll perform best very early and later in the season here in the subtropics. In midsummer here she can tend to being a bit shallow and dropping back petals before she fully opens out. It may be our humidity along with heat that tends to do that I think, as it happens with other named cultuvars here at that time too 🤔
What I actually love most about here, as well as being a great cut for wedding installations, is that she gives such delicious seedlings! If you’ve read my most recent book you’ll see the line I’ve been developing further that resulted from her seed.
She’s a tall strong plant when I grow her here, and very robust and healthy.

I know that many of you have been watching her journey from very early on when she was such a standout in the 2022 season in her ‘Coorabell Jessie’ seed parent block. So different from her mum, and I have a hunch that the pollen parent was a strong cut flower white waterlily that I was growing back then.
I’m excited that she’ll be making her way out into the world - I hope you love her ✨💕

22/08/2026

‘TeaParty’ was a cultivar I released before I was officially releasing any of my breeding lines.. I think around 5-6years ago. It was self-seeded so I don’t know the parentage of this one.
It’s the only unofficially release that I still grow, and find it a delightful cut flower for my florists. She’s on the bigger side for retail bouquets but still very useable, and a lovely bright clean pink that sits beautifully in a number of palettes and always the first to sell in my own bunches.
As you can see from the second slide she’s also very floriferous, especially considering her size, and functional traits are great.
I didn’t have many when I first shared it, but I think it’s still around. Anyone growing ‘TeaParty’?

19/08/2026

Another favourite seedling moving into second season that is making me work to keep her. This beautiful brown toned decorative only produced a little spindly tuber clump (I don’t judge on first year tubers, since conditions are far from ideal squished into the overcrowded first year patch). I managed to divide it into 4 little tuber sections that look viable. I’ll put two into a cutting bed to coax multiple cutting shoots and save the other two to plant direct. I don’t like to put all my eggs in any particular basket and risk losing them - so I like to implement multiple techniques to protect my favourites.

18/08/2026

A little bit of love for this seedling heading into its third year of assessment.
Tuber development from the 2 plants was abysmal so I’ve put all but one tuber (that was the only decent one from the 2 clumps) into some potting mix in the warmth of my propagation room to try and force them to wake early. I’d like to take as many cuttings as I can to secure her for another year.
For such a very pretty bloom she’s starting to put out diva vibes so I’m not sure if she’s going to make it long term.
Assessment goes way beyond whether we find a dahlia aesthetically pleasing. Functional traits, productivity, and then importantly the ability to perpetuate through the years, all matter… but she really is so very pretty ✨✨✨

16/08/2026

‘Serenade Rosa’ is due for release this year, so I hope you’re signed up to Mardi - West Gippsland Flower Farm’s email list to find out when her tuber sale will be?
I’ve had lots of messages about buying tubers or plants, but I’m not selling any myself this year, Mardi will be selling all the Serenade cultivars including the new releases ✨💕🌸

12/08/2026

My imagination is in overdrive dreaming up all the possibilities that I’ll see from seed I’ve collected from this seedling in the first four photos. This is a third generation Serenade line and everything crossed that I can improve the bloom position (which tends to be too forward for my liking) but retain its other incredible traits. The stem is super-strong and the plant exceptionally healthy, just like its seed parent which you can see in the fifth photo, which itself came from ‘Serenade Moondance’ which is an amazing seed parent for my goals.
Speaking of which, if all goes well with final numbers, ‘Serenade Moondance’ is hopefully going to be released this year via Mardi Mardi - West Gippsland Flower Farm tuber sale - so make sure you’re signed up for her email notifications, as I have no doubt they will sell out very quickly. She does bloom best in cooler weather and climates, as I’ve experienced premature petal drop in the extreme humid hot weather here in the subtropics (especially in the height of summer), but early and late season she is exquisite! I manage it in the heat by cutting a little earlier, which means she doesn’t always have the full depth you see in that last photo, but still looks incredible in wedding installations and makes such a statement in the garden too.

08/08/2026

I hope you are having a beautiful weekend ☀️💕🌸
Things are ticking along nicely here on Serenade Farm. We have a big list of Spring tasks that we’re chipping away at. We’ll be digging/dividing/replanting our dahlia tubers over the next couple of months and adding as much mulch as we can to protect against the dry weather that is forecast for us this season.
I’m still making decisions about which of my seedlings to continue trialling and which to let drop away from my breeding program. No drastic changes to my goals this year. I’ll still be working along the two distinct arms - breeding for unique aesthetic traits that are then improved to work for cut flowers and then also the goal within the more traditional decorative/ball type forms but focussing on suitability to my climate and productivity and reliability.
This photo is of a seedling that will be heading into third year if I keep it on for more assessment. It was quite a good producer and it carries the pink/orange pigment pattern I like, as well as some petaloids. It might not be the best example of any of these traits, but there is nothing wrong with it, so I’ll keep it on my maybe list for now 🤔

04/08/2026

Wow! Every time I get together with other growers I’m reminded how wonderful this community is! Last weekend I attended the Botanical Bazaar Festival and it was such a delightful day! It was a treat to meet so many of you for the first time and see familiar friendly faces who had travelled distances to be there.
The tubers I brought along completely sold out (and I’m sure those who nabbed some precious unicorns were happy they made the trip 😜) and so grateful to all of those who bought my books too!
I loved hearing your stories and personal journeys into this dahlia obsession and putting faces to names that I recognise from our internet interactions.
Thanks too for the many who stayed around for my presentation at the stage - it was lovely to have such a full receptive audience so late in the day - and full of such interesting questions to explore together.
For anyone thinking of attending next year, I highly recommence the trip. Such quality speakers (including the always delightful Claire Bickle & Kat Pearson) beautiful botanical art displays, great music, and fantastic array of stalls & exhibitors).
A massive thank you to the organisers and volunteers who made it all happen, and to my bestie Alison who looked after the stall while I was on stage 🥰

Address

103 Beacon Road
Tamborine Mountain, QLD
4272

Telephone

+61448979788

Website

http://serenadefarm.com.au/

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