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04/16/2026

Guess how much 💰

Let’s talk about numbers when it comes to baptisia, this gorgeous spike-flower crop!

Each of these plants started as a bare root—meaning just the bit that’s underground, no top growth. I selected 8 varieties that were available at the time through Walters Gardens. If I remember correctly, these roots were about $5 each WHOLESALE. I bought 200!

It’s been three years and our plants are well established and we cut hard on them!

So far from one variety of 25 plants, we’ve cut 480 stems, that’s 48 bunches and we sell each bunch for $20-25. That means from 1 of our 8 varieties (perhaps our most prolific variety) we will make $960-$1200. Now let’s be generous and say that we make that on all 8 varieties—we would gross about $8000 a year on this crop!

Again, this is just one crop and one piece of the puzzle of this farm!

What are your thoughts?

04/06/2026

Spring is for spikes!

In floral design flowers are categorized into different features that they represent in an arrangement.

Focal flowers have big heads and take up chunks of space—think peonies, ranunculus, roses.

Filler flowers are often smaller and more dainty, perhaps adding texture, movement and intrigue to an arrangement.

Spikes or line flowers are what give the arrangement height!

In spring there are copious options for spikes/line flowers—snapdragons, delphinium, rattail statice, baptisia, flowering branches, larkspur, foxglove, the list goes on!

A lot of these flowers only grow and bloom in the spring, using all of their stored energy from winter to send up tall blooms. It can be tricky to grow or source line flowers in the summer and fall as options can be much more limited.

I love the spikes, I think tall flowers are the coolest thing, especially when I remember the itty bitty, teeny weeny seeds that produce 4’ tall stems!

Do you have a favorite spike/line flowers?

03/20/2026

Hear me out because while I wholeheartedly love receiving flowers or really any gift (hint hint), I also wholeheartedly believe that growing flowers is one of the very best gifts you can give yourself!

Here’s 3 reasons why:
-growing a flower or in this case a dahlia from planting the tuber to blooming takes about 90-120 days—that’s a lot of time AND a lot of anticipation—sometimes I find myself enjoying the anticipation as much as I do the thing itself!

-giving someone a dahlia tuber versus a bouquet of flowers would be shocking, almost offensive—tubers are ugly, unimpressive, boring. BUT, watching that tuber transform from its potato shape into the most impressive multi-petaled flower will stay with you 10x longer than looking at a bouquet. Knowing the process increases the enjoyment!

-growing anything takes an investment of time, care and attention and believe it or not, we often find ourselves loving the things that we invest our time, care and attention in. You’ll love the blooms on your home-grown dahlia far more than a bouquet of gifted flowers because you’ve invested in it!

If you need help convincing someone in your life (maybe even yourself) to start growing flowers, send them this post. Who knows, maybe they’ll purchase you some Creekside dahlia tubers to get you started!

03/10/2026

Why grow ball dahlias?

First it might help to know what a ball dahlia is—it refers to the shape of the bloom of the dahlia—the many small layered petals form a spherical shape that resembles a ball.

Ball dahlias are the best dahlias to grow in my opinion because they:
1) Produce tons of blooms on strong robust stems.
2)Their smaller shaped petals hold less moisture and are therefore less likely to shatter aka fall off, giving them the longest vase-life of any dahlias (up to 10 days!).
3) Generate robust tubers with strong necks that are easy to store.

Pictured here:
1-foxy lady
2-syliva
3-cornel red
4-Linda’s baby
5-iveanetti

12/11/2025

Why dig dahlia tubers?

It’s not necessary to dig your tubers if the ground in your area of the world doesn’t freeze in the winter (hello southerners!). However, we choose to dig our dahlia tubers so that we can multiply them each year to increase our crop and to share with you!

If you have questions about this process, drop a comment! If you want to know when we will have tubers available, join our newsletter, link in bio!

12/09/2025

The 3 most popular questions I get as a flower farmer are:

1) what’s your favorite flower?
2) what kinds of flowers do you grow?
3) what do you do in the winter?

My answers are as follows:
1) generally the most recent thing to come into bloom, but I do have a soft spot for craspedia
2) we grow over 60 varieties of flowers—I’m happy to list them if you’d like, but that might be boring 😂
3) we grow plants all year round, even in the winter we are growing plants in the ground, growing seedlings in the greenhouse, propagating dahlia tubers (as seen), and overall keeping the farm functioning by weeding, prepping beds, etc.

Our big project right now is digging, washing and dividing dahlia tubers for storage. We started with 17 beds full of tubers and we are down to the last 4 beds! We do this every year so that we can multiply our stock and sometimes sell extras!

Winter is somewhat slower for flower farmers but it is by no means a break from farming!

11/24/2025

2025 marks 10 years of wreath making at Creekside!

The first year of wreath making was just me, Morgan, wrangling branches of cypress, cedar and pine while listening to Christmas album on repeat. My process was far seamless and my hands were splintered and blistered— I made about 25 wreaths that first year.

Our process and efficiency and overall enjoyment during wreath week has increased massively!

This year we had the help of a new elf (Briana’s mom), who came to help along with my parents and

Thank you to everyone who purchased a wreath and for continuing to support Creekside, it allows us to keep doing work that we love and is meaningful!

11/12/2025

I’ve always loved decorating my house. More often than not I’ll bring home leaves or acorns that I’ve collected on a walk, a piece of lichen from a rock or an interesting branch to set on my table or hang from the ceiling.

My favorite time of year to decorate is undoubtedly Christmas. The smell of evergreen declutters my mind and makes me feel alert. The warm glow of twinkle lights is endlessly cozy. The bright pops of red berries are a welcome juxtaposition to the often grey weather.

I love making Christmas Wreaths each year so that I can share these cozy, bright, enlivening feelings with you!

How do you like to decorate for the Holidays?

10/29/2025

Back in 2016 when I was just beginning my flower farming journey, I decided to try my hand at making Christmas wreaths. I foraged greenery, sumac pods, dried seed pods, magnolia leaves AND I dried cockscomb!

From year one, cockscomb has been my favorite element in a Creekside Christmas Wreath. Its velvet red/burgundy head is both unique and interesting and it holds its color forever!

This year we’ve crushed the growing and drying of cockscomb! We have oodles and noodles of pristine cockscomb heads to adorn our many wreaths!

If you’d like to order a wreath, you can use the code YAY5 for $5 off until the end of October!

Link in bio to order!

Address

5549 North Marble Top Road
Chickamauga, GA
30707

Telephone

(856) 495-8003

Website

http://www.creeksideflowerfarm.com/

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