Deerfield Flower Company

10/17/2026

We're not doing wedding florals, and choosing to mainly focus on bulk flower buckets, BUT a good friend of ours got married, a widow, and another mutual friend that was catering the rehearsal dinner asked about flowers for on the tables.

My husband and I decided to gift 11 of these(all the compote containers we had), because the bride is such a dear friend, and, if you read one of our earlier recent posts, she and her husband (who had passed some time ago), were the ones we actually bought our current home from! SUCH a generous couple! Felt like we bought their tractor and they threw in the house!

We have thoroughly enjoyed living here, complete with a weeping willow against a beautiful hillside, and lots of space for raising a young family.

Used foliage from the raspberry plants they planted years ago, along with peony foliage from the plant that belonged to her grandmother. The bride's sons each teased me that I used an invasive species in the arrangements. 😂 I just saw cool seed pods on a w**d with adorable heart shaped leaves on them that I found in our garden.

The friend who was catering told me their wedding colors ahead of time, and we had it, and all these stems we grew here thus year. They ended up using these in the halls as well, on their wedding day, which was an unexpected fun surprise.

Used mainly the dahlia variety that is unknown but I call Short Red Jill. Plant is about 3 feet tall, with long, strong stems, and the prettiest hint of purplish shimmer on the petals. Probably my favorite to use in fall arrangements, and most popular in demand color this past month by our florists for weddings.

We have some extra tuber clumps of these beyond what want to plant again for next year, so if you want some, see our last post for more details! $20 per tuber cluster. If you know or want to learn how to divide and store them for winter, you could have 5+ tubers that each turn into their own plants next year!

Caro, MI

10/16/2026

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Confident at overwintering dahlia tubers, or want to try your hand at it and learn this year? Some wait to buy tubers till the following spring, to let others deal with the overwintering part, and how some may not survive the winter storage, but if YOU want to get a jumpstart at spring before other sellers typically ship theirs here in Michigan, AND you want a great ️FALL DEAL, we have some beautiful ones for you!

Each cluster produces 5-10+ tubers. You can leave the cluster together, or learn how to divide them to multiply how many plants you have. Each must have a visible eye on it, kinda like how a potato needs an eye on it to grow another potato plant. Cause one dahlia tuber can grow a whole new plant just like the one/variety that it came from!

We decided to get pickier about what we grow in our space, since we mainly grow for florists, we need awesome producers. Some made the cut but we have extras(YAY!), and some were just too slow of bloomers for us. Typically we cut once a week, and some would take their sweet time. And for the garden grower, you may never want to cut your dahlias!

These are great cut and come again flowers, giving you blooms all the way from sometime in July (if you planted late April-early May), through the first frost.

We'll be digging them all up after the first big frost that turns ends the beloved dahlia season and turns all the plants unrecognizable. But if you see any you like, shoot us a message and we can reserve it for you to pick up when the time comes. Should be 3ish weeks from now, depending on the weather.

We've marked all dahlias with waterproof tags, so even the unknown varieties, we know what is what.

$20 each cluster

AND we have two varieties that were seedlings this spring, so those clusters will be smaller and you might want to not divide those till NEXT fall, but those are $10 each cluster.

I *MAY* add more to this group, especially with more of the seedling types we decide not to keep, as I get better pictures and we make this final call on what really makes the cut. Color plays a part in it too. 😉

So, have fun seeing what you'd like to grow, and message us your order when you're ready!

I'll add the link to a great article on one way of how to store tubers in the comments below, and check out a video I shared the other day, on how to divide tubers if you'd like to learn how or have a refresher course.

Deerfield Flower Company
2060 George Road
Caro, MI 48723

10/15/2026

Our 9 year old is wanting to earn some money too, and is making these bouquets with extra flowers we harvested this morning. $25 each bouquet, and it all goes towards her goal. ♥️ 3 bouquets to choose from in this color scheme.

Deerfield Flower Company
2060 George Road
Caro, MI 48723

Cash porch pickup.

Thanks for supporting her creative endeavor, and goal!

10/15/2026

And they are off, my husband and one of our kids, to do a delivery run to the florists in Bay City, Saginaw, and Caro this morning!

10/14/2026

Last Saturday, our good friend got married! A widow, who married a widower, in a love story that God wrote in His perfect timing, and a ceremony that magnified Christ and God's faithfulness. ♥️ Was such a sweet honor to have played the violin, accompanied by my young friend on the piano, for this couple's wedding. Mostly hymns, some classical, and a whole lot of fun improve.

My pianist friend has been at Bible college in Canada, so we practiced a month ago before she left, and she arrived home at 1:30am on the DAY OF the wedding, and we crammed in over an hour worth of practicing together before it was time to play as the guests began arriving.

It was ME that messed up once during the real deal. 😉 She played delightfully, with such beauty and lovely flair!

We didn't realize it at the time, but one of our florists that reserved some of our maroon dahlias last Thursday and also some dahlia buds...and when my husband went to deliver them on our wholesale florist route where they shop out of our vehicle, we realized, hey! They were providing florals for our friend's wedding! I felt so fancy to have the bride special have these made by Lasting Impressions Floral Shop and Gifts for the pianist and I to wear! And there's one of our dark dahlia buds on it!!

P.S. We bought our current home from the bride and her earlier husband, years before he passed. SUCH a generous couple!!

10/13/2026

Have a galvanized tub where the bottom rusted out? We slipped ours over our mailbox last year and added soil and flowers to it.

Did you know you can layer things in it like lasagna? Look up lasagna flower planting for the fun of it on Google, and see what you learn.

We have tulip bulbs in there that bloom in the spring, and then bought a variety of textures and leaf shape plants from a greenhouse, and tucked one Melissa Annemarijke dahlia tuber 6 inches below the surface in June. Could have put the tuber in there in the middle of April, but didn't think of the idea till later when we had some extras to plant.

This is a pretty one, with dark purple foliage and strong stems. We planted 20ish tubers in our main dahlia area, and probably half of them have shot up 2 foot tall plants, where they are tall enough to cut stems for the florists, and about half of them are shorter like this one by our mailbox. We labeled the taller ones with waterproof tags, so we can know the difference when we go to dig them up after the first frost.

An interesting thing about these tubers, is that we stored them the exact same way we did all the others...where we dug them up, rinsed all the dirt off, let them dry for a couple days before dividing the tubers and sharpie marking their variety name on each, and laying them individually in layers a tote box with pine shavings from TSC, so that none of the tubers touched, covered the last layer of tubers with pine shavings, cocked the lid, and let it sit all winter in our garage that stayed about 50°F all winter, and never below freezing.

We had probably 90% survival rate of all the tubers, where they were all firm, all except this variety.

Stored the exact same way.

The last picture is what the looked like in the beginning of April, when we started pulling them out of winter storage.

But if there is a viable eye or sprout from the eye, the neck isn't broken, and there is some squish to it and not all shriveled bone dry, it will still produce a dahlia plant!

Want any of these dahlia clumps after the first frost to try your hand at storing them for the winter and planting again in the spring? Each clump could have 5-12 tubers that have eyes where you can divide it and make even more plants from it. $20 each clump. 20 clumps available!

Great low plant for borders. And whenever you cut the stem, it'll send out another shoot for more flowers.

Dahlias generally bloom between July sometime till the first frost.

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.