Deerfield Flower Company

10/09/2026

Every week, it changes slightly what is in bloom, cause some dahlias are more prolific than others, and some are just slow bloomers. But it sure is fun to see them all together in one place. Aaaaaaaand that means all our dahlia plants are back to being all green for a couple days till bits of color show themselves again. That's has its supposed to be for small scale flower farmers though. Caro, MI

10/09/2026

Today's harvest, minus some of the other buckets of stems beyond these dahlias. Dahlias, a different kind of grass than we've been taking all season, ornamental crabapple that looks like mini cherries(this one always gets snatched up by whoever we stop at first), marigolds, amaranth, and cosmos.

Its been tough to get them all in one photo like we were doing earlier this season, cause Eric is ready to load them and get on the road to the florists for them to shop out of our vehicle before it gets too far into the morning. Plus, it doesn't help that I've been trying to get good pictures of the new to us this year dahlias, and that unfortunately makes our harvesting time that much longer.

This spring, I had made an helpful quick sketch map of what was planted exactly where this spring, and I accidentally misplaced it and can't find it anywhere! 😩

I know the names of what we planted last year, but SO many new ones from this year, I just have to give them up to no-name varieties and describe them other ways on the waterproof label at the base of each dahlia plant. Sometimes Google helps, and sometimes, maybe its that that variety isn't recorded online anywhere, as it was a seedling.

Some people don't care what the names are, and just like the pretty flowers, and others really like to know the variety name.

So my advice to myself is...

Take a picture of your detailed map and email it to a bazillion people so you can find it in your sent email folder.

Or something like that.

Oh well.

10/08/2026

One of the florists in Saginaw that we delivered our grown right here on our little flower farm in Caro, MI flowers and foliage to, made this masterpiece for a wedding last Saturday! She bought maroon/red dahlias, ornamental crabapples that look like mini cherries, and bridal veil spirea, and also sourced the rest of her florals from other sources. Amazing the beauty she can design! Right from her home studio.

The most beautiful autumn day at Odins Owl | Wedding Venue 🌹🍂

10/07/2026

Look what one of the floral shops we deliver our locally grown stems to in Bay City created! Regent Floral & Mercantile , it is a work of art.

The only stems in this arrangement that we grow are the draping amaranth. And I REALLY like what Brandon did with ALL the details he put in.

So much texture and flow, with a color scheme that is close to each other on the color wheel...my favorite kind of color scheme.

10/06/2026

If you want to expand your dahlia collection and are confident overwintering tubers, or want to experiment learning how, we're selling each plant cluster of tubers for $20 each! They're almost like potatoes that multiply underground. Can divide each cluster into 5-20 tubers with eyes depending on the cluster, which each tuber with a good eye turns into a new dahlia plant next year! Selling a bunch of tuber clusters, cause we're trying to keep this size dahlia patch, and we won't have enough room for them all. See any you like? Screenshot what you like and send us a message to get it/them for your own!

Pickup by appointment now if you'd like, or we can wait till we dig them all up after the first frost.

Deerfield Flower Company
2060 George Road
Caro, MI 48723

10/06/2026

Selling CLUMPS of dahlia tubers this fall! If you are an experienced tuber storer, or want to try it out to learn how to, we have a ✨️✨️F A L L D E A L ✨️✨️ for YOU!!!

$20 per clump on these varieties!!! Some are unknown names that were new to us this year. Some are named, known varieties. Some we know we'll have an overabundance to store.

We decided to get more picky with what we grow on our space.

We want:
🌿Prolific, cause we want LOTS of stems to cut and sell to florists, not ones that take forever to grow new stems after we cut them
🌿Strong stems, not wimpy
🌿Tall stems, not short

Selling these, if they didn't make the cut on any of the above.

I'll make comments on each of the pictures, so you can decide if its a good fit for you or not.

Some dahlias we grew this year, we decided we no longer want to grow that specific variety, BUT they would be IDEAL for a HOBBY GROWER who just wants to grow pretty flowers and only deadhead the blooms that are spent.

Throwing in some varieties too, that we want to keep growing next year for cut flowers, but we just have too many clumps for what we need. See captions for those too.

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Some people don't want the hastle of storing tubers and just let them rot in the ground and buy more in the spring.

Some people want other people to store them, and to just buy good, firm ones in the spring for the kinds they like.

But sometimes, getting tubers from some places can add up real fast. Some tubers go from $5 - $45 per tuber, depending on the variety.

We are zone 5b here at our spot in Caro, MI, surrounded by a lot of zone 6.

We choose to wash our clumps, dry them slightly, divide the tubers that have eyes on them, sharpie mark the names on each, and layer them in wood shavings from TSC in totes with cocked lids that we keep in our garage that stays about 50°F in the winter. Never gets below freezing. Had great 90%+ success with that method of storage. Plus it takes less space than storing the clumps.

Some people leave the clump together, dirt and all and store in their basement. Sometimes they divide the tubers in the spring. Some don't divide at all. The clumps just get more and more massive and really do need to be divided every couple years no matter what, whether chopping the clump in half with a machete or using a pruner to divide the tubers.

But do your research.

One time I stored them in our basement, and they shriveled up so dry.

So research first.

Sometimes you fail.

Sometimes it is an awesome overwintering method.

So if you want to give it a whirl and get some $20 dahlia clumps of tubers this fall, let us know! You can see the blooms too on the ones you want to dig up, if its not on a Thursday (our harvest day), or if the freeze/frost hasn't ended their season and made them unrecognizable.

Deerfield Flower Company
📍2060 George Road
Caro, MI 48723

By appointment only. Message to schedule.

I'll link a helpful article about dahlia tuber storage in the comments from another flower farm on the other side of MI, who is a zone 6 as well.

10/06/2026

Looks like its supposed to dip very close to freezing tonight! 33°F. Hard to tell if the dahlias will survive the night or turn olive green or black, ending the season.

Some people make a shelter over their dahlias with sheets or a tent of sorts with sides. Just have to make sure sides or top don't touch the dahlias that you're trying to protect.

That can definitely extend the season. Its supposed to still be great weather for a while after tonight.

We set up sprinklers we had on hand, and will turn them on about 3 or 4am.

Might work. Cause the water is a warmer temperature than the surrounding air.

We'll see.

We shall see.

10/03/2026

Heritage raspberry plants ready to transplant, and fall is the BEST time for transplanting them, with springtime being a close second!! We will dig these up fresh per order, so message us with how many you want and when you want to pick them up by.

We need to make our rows more obvious and easily accessible. Lots ready for a new home!

$8 per plant, 100 for $400, or 400 for $1,000.

Deerfield Flower Company
📍2060 George Road
Caro, MI 48723

Right around the corner from Colwood Church.

Message us your order! If its a big order, must give us at least 24 hours advance notice of when you want to pick it up. Thanks in advance!!

10/02/2026

Today's harvest for the floral shop delivery run in Saginaw, Bay City and Caro, where they shop from our vehicle. Eric took our 3 year old on the run this time, and when I asked her about it when they got back, right off she mentioned, "I got to go to the doggy one, and...," aka Regent Floral & Mercantile, where Brandon has gentle golden retriever(if I remember its breed right), right there in the shop. Its been a LONG while since I've gone on the run, so my memory is a little rusty! 🤪 It's a favorite stop of our kids for sure!

Sweet Beets Floral special requested 75 dark red/maroon dahlia stems ahead of time for a wedding she's working on for Saturday. Pretty popular color this month for weddings! IF the frost holds off, they're wanted for each of the next couple weeks!

Foxtail grasses ending their season, amaranth, cosmos, zinnias, bridal veil foliage, ornamental crabapple, and whatever dahlias were ready.

One of our kids said they're sad the floral shop run season is almost over for the year. Fresh for now, and then we'll have a dried flower run after that with what dried in one of our old sheds that stays dry, dark, and heated up pretty good on sunny days.

We didn't get as much school done today as I'd hoped, BUT we did go on a fascinating homeschool co-op field trip this afternoon at a meat processing business with a group of about 50 of us. They even let some of the kids and moms operate their machine to fill 1 lb bags with ground sausage. Good to know where our meat comes from, and the work that gets put into making it into easy to use packaging for the fridge or freezer! Quite educational and enjoyable!

10/02/2026

First harvest day this year where it rained on us almost the whole time! We've harvested in heavy fog, and lots of sunny mornings this year, but the first time we've been rained on.

Dahlias like being put in hot water after you strip the leaves/stems you want off. Makes them last longer, even with or without flower food in the water. But we do like to add the flower food to help these stunning but shorter lived fresh flowers last longer in the vase.

Normally the night before our weekly heavy harvest day, we wash our buckets in hot soapy water, and get them clean enough to eat out of, so then they're ready to go bright and early the next morning when we get to work. Its beautiful to see all the color and texture all together in the buckets, but it sure takes all the color out of the backyard, and leaves lots of green behind! But that's how its supposed to be, when you're growing for cut flowers vs just pure enjoyment of them out in the yard. Give it a few more days, and the dahlias will be showing their color again as more and more come back into bloom from the buds the plant keeps sending up.

This week we had peony leaves, bridal veil foliage, ornamental crabapple that looks like tiny cherries, sedum, zinnias, cosmos, green and purple and red amaranth, and whatever dahlias we had in bloom!

We wanted to keep this year simpler with not planting as much with a new baby this spring, and not have burnout, like a lot of flower farmers can have. Its been an enjoyable season growing quality flowers for florists and custom orders of bulk buckets and some bouquets, and working together as a family. Even though there inevitably is one child each week...sometimes they tag team...that wants to complain about it being too hot, or too cold, too early, or too this, or too that. Teaching and learning character, and working as heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men...its worth it.