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Growing dahlias and other cut flowers for bouquets and arrangements at 1162 Knox Hwy 7, Knoxville, IL

10/20/2026

Just picking flowers for a friend today. They just keep on coming! Dahlias love this weather. 🌸 The zinnias, not so much, but I found a few good ones under the canopy of others.

10/19/2026

The dahlias are blooming so fast, and I just hate to let these beautiful blooms go to waste, so over the weekend I set up a table at the end of the driveway and a sign that said Flowers for sale, fill a vase for $10. 🌸 I’m so glad if you were able to get some and are enjoying them now! Or maybe you blessed someone else with a bouquet. 🥰. Thank you.

I know bouquets like this cost three and four times this much elsewhere, but the truth is I would gladly just give them to you. They are too beautiful to keep to myself. It’s true they don’t last but a week at most, but flowers are for the moment. 🌺. Dahlias make that moment so sweet.

Today, with what was left (after they had been sitting outside for two days and two nights!) I made this bouquet for my kitchen. ❤️ The obsession continues. Look at these flowers! There is nothing like them.

God must have said something like: “I’m just going to blow their minds with these.” And then he even left it to us to expand on their beauty. I’ve been growing dahlias for about five years, but this will be my first year to collect seeds from them. When pollinators go from flower to flower, it kind of mixes up the genetics and by collecting seeds and growing them next year, I will produce completely original dahlia varieties. (Growing them from the tubers that they multiply underground will produce a dahlia of exactly the same genetics.)

Whether the dahlias grown from seed next year will exhibit the traits that we want to see in cut flower dahlias remains to be seen, but it’s going to be very exciting! 🌼 (for me anyway!)

No filters on pics. They really are this bright.

10/17/2026

Such a beautiful day, I moved the bouquet bar outside. ☀️🌸🍁 I will keep refilling it all weekend. All these beautiful dahlias survived the nearly freezing temperatures and they are still blooming! Fill a vase for $10.

10/17/2026

So many dahlias blooming! Today I have set up a bouquet bar and you can just come and fill a cup with as many flowers as you can fit for $10. It’s ready to go and I will keep it up for today and tomorrow. Stop by and grab some beautiful dahlias. This is our last couple weeks.

10/17/2026

I cut as many as I could today, and tonight it will dip down to 33 degrees- thank goodness - my weather app was threatening 31 and 32 yesterday! But we covered three rows in the flower garden just in case. 🙏😳. If anyone needs some cheering up after the rain and chilly night, come on over. I have buckets full of cheer. 🌸🌺🌼

10/16/2026

So many dahlias blooming! I will make bouquets for this weekend and they will be very dahlia heavy! 🌸🌺

We have a temperature of 31 looming for Friday night. 😥 I am planning to cover as many rows as I can, but this could be it.

10/03/2026

Bouquets are made and waiting for you. 🌸🌺
We don’t have too many more weekends for this! I love spending Friday nights making bouquets for you. I’ll be sad when winter is here…but I look forward to planning next year’s dahlia rows! I always plant them in alphabetical order, but maybe I should group them by color next spring!

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1162 Knox Highway 7
Knoxville, IL
61448

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