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Bloom and Root We’re Alyssa and Emily, the friends and florists behind Bloom & Root, sharing our love of growing flowers and creating beautiful, garden-inspired designs.

Follow along for growing tips, floral inspiration, and a whole lot of flowers.

Ranunculus planting season is starting in many areas, and we want you to know: YOU CAN DO IT! Ranunculus have a bit of ...
10/13/2026

Ranunculus planting season is starting in many areas, and we want you to know: YOU CAN DO IT!

Ranunculus have a bit of a reputation for being divas, but once you know the basics, they’re really not as intimidating as they seem.

Comment "ranunculus" and we'll send you our step-by-step guide, so you can so you can turn those weird little corms into a gorgeous spring garden full of blooms.

10/12/2026

There’s something so beautiful about arranging flowers as the seasons begin to change. The colors deepen, the textures get a little wilder, and even the fading bits of the garden become something worth celebrating.

Autumn is magic.✨

Parents of high schoolers: What are kids taking to Homecoming this year?💐 Small bouquets🌸 Wrist corsages🌿 Boutonnieres🚫 ...
10/08/2026

Parents of high schoolers: What are kids taking to Homecoming this year?
💐 Small bouquets
🌸 Wrist corsages
🌿 Boutonnieres
🚫 No flowers
Tell us what you’re seeing at your school!

10/07/2026

Warm + cool tones CAN work together. 🤝

Color blocking is one of my favorite ways to do it. Grouping similar shades together creates beautiful contrast while keeping the overall design intentional and cohesive.

And this is just ONE way to think about color in floral design.

If choosing a palette is something you struggle with, we put together a complete guide to floral color, including color theory, different types of color schemes, and how to actually use them in your arrangements.

Comment COLOR and I’ll send you the full guide!

Tulip planting season is here! When do you normally put your bulbs in the ground?
10/06/2026

Tulip planting season is here! When do you normally put your bulbs in the ground?

Sweet Nathalie vs. Silver Years: two creamy blush dahlias that are favorites in the dahlia world.At first glance, they l...
10/01/2026

Sweet Nathalie vs. Silver Years: two creamy blush dahlias that are favorites in the dahlia world.

At first glance, they look very similar, but once you grow them side by side, the differences become much more obvious. Those differences might make one a better fit for your garden than the other.

Sweet Nathalie
• Formal Decorative
• 3–4 ft tall
• About 5" blooms
• Blooms tend to face downward

Silver Years
• Waterlily
• About 4 ft tall
• 4–5" blooms
• Blooms face more upward

The biggest difference for me this year has actually been productivity.

Of course, every garden is different. I’m growing in Zone 8b in the Pacific Northwest, so your timing, productivity, and plant habit may be different from mine.

In my garden, Silver Years was the very first dahlia to bloom and has been pumping out flowers ever since. Sweet Nathalie was one of my last to bloom, and so far I’ve only cut four flowers from her.

If you could only grow one next year, which would you choose: Sweet Nathalie or Silver Years?

Homecoming is coming up, and boutonnieres do not have to be boring!Alyssa put together 30 modern boutonniere ideas, from...
09/29/2026

Homecoming is coming up, and boutonnieres do not have to be boring!

Alyssa put together 30 modern boutonniere ideas, from simple and classic to colorful, garden-inspired, and a little more unexpected.

These aren’t just inspiration photos! Each one includes the exact flowers and stem counts so you can actually recreate it.

If you’re helping with Homecoming flowers this year, you'll want to save this one.

09/28/2026

Spooky season is almost here, so let’s talk about some of my favorite ingredients for dark, moody arrangements.

These are 11 I actually grow and use in my design work, plus why they’ve earned a spot in my garden:

**Hollyhill Black Beauty Dahlia**
About as close to black as I can get in a dahlia. Deep burgundy, great size for designing, and doesn’t overwhelm an arrangement.

**Chocolate Cosmos**
Small, dark blooms on thin, wiry stems that add beautiful movement. And yes, they really do smell like chocolate!

**Black Knight Scabiosa**
I LOVE the wonky stems that bend and curve through an arrangement. Plus, the flowers and seed heads are both usable.

**Diablo Ninebark**
A workhorse foliage shrub. Beautiful flowers in spring, textural seed cases afterward, and deep burgundy foliage I can cut throughout the season.

**Jessie G Dahlia**
Beautiful ball form, excellent vase life and SO striking in person.

**Rubenza Cosmos**
Opens deep ruby red and fades as it ages, giving me multiple tones from the same plant.

**Queen Lime Red Zinnia**
The mix of burgundy, dusty rose and lime makes this one of my favorite “bridge” flowers for tying a color palette together.

**Shadow Cat Dahlia**
Super dark, vigorous and gives me long, strong stems that are great for designing.

All three dahlias were sourced through Connell’s Dahlias

**Amaranthus: Red Spike + Love Lies Bleeding**
Two completely different design jobs: Red Spike gives me strong vertical lines, while Love Lies Bleeding adds dramatic drape and movement.

**Purple Red Strawflower**
A long harvest window, great texture and one I can dry to keep using long after the growing season ends.

**Aromatto Basil**
Foliage and dark purple flower spikes on the same branching stem. The more I harvest, the more it branches and produces.

You don’t need an entire garden of nearly-black flowers to create a moody arrangement. I love growing a mix of focal flowers, smaller blooms, foliage, spikes and trailing ingredients to give me different shapes and textures to work with.

Save this list for next year’s garden!

09/25/2026

Linen was THE zinnia everyone was talking about last year, and after a full season of growing it, I get the hype.

Both Linen and Ballerina were bred by Johnny's Selected Seeds and I grew both this season.

Linen was incredibly productive for me, with long, strong stems and HUGE blooms. A lot of my blooms had cactus form, and the petals have this almost iridescent sparkle that is so hard to capture in photos.

But what I loved most was designing with it. Linen has a warm, creamy color that worked beautifully in my arrangements, especially paired with whites, peaches and oranges.

One interesting thing I noticed: earlier in the season, my Linen blooms were much lighter and creamier. As the weather has gotten colder, they’ve become noticeably more yellow.

My one gripe? Linen and Ballerina are VERY similar. Linen leaned warmer and more yellow for me, while Ballerina had more of that soft blush-pink tone.

Am I growing both again next year? Absolutely. But if you made me choose just one, I’d pick Ballerina.

So yes, Linen lived up to the hype for me. And Johnny's Selected Seeds please keep the new zinnias coming. We’re clearly going to keep growing them.✨👍❤️

Now I want to hear from everyone who grew Linen this year: what did YOU think? If you grew both Linen and Ballerina, which did you prefer?

Linen (bred by Johnny's Selected Seeds) was THE hot new zinnia of 2026. Did you grow it? Did it live up to the hype?
09/24/2026

Linen (bred by Johnny's Selected Seeds) was THE hot new zinnia of 2026. Did you grow it? Did it live up to the hype?

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