How I became a Flower Farmer

In 2017, we started planning our wedding. We chose September as the month to have our wedding for a couple of reasons - one, it’s cooler and we have been to a few outdoor weddings in July and knew we didn’t want to stand in that kind of heat. Second- I love dahlias and they are a fall flower so we needed a fall date. After years of working as a florist I knew that the only way to get lots of high quality dahlias was to grow them myself. Typically, for an Edmonton florist the primary way to get dahlias is to order them from a farm or wholesaler in British Columbia. The flowers are shipped to us here in Edmonton by refrigerated truck, dry packed (meaning they are out of water). There are two things dahlia hate - being out of water and being cold, so when they arrive they are not happy and drop a lot of petals.