Hi, I'm Chelsea! My journey into the world of dahlias is rooted in family tradition. I grew up in the garden alongside my parents, planting seeds and getting my hands in the dirt from the time I was 10. There’s an old photo of me in the vegetable garden that still makes me smile—it perfectly captures the joy I’ve always felt working with plants. That joy has only grown over the years.

You could say a love for flowers runs in my family. My great-grandmother kept a little cottage garden on Vashon Island filled with her favorite dahlias and snapdragons. My grandmother and mom both loved flowers too, making me a fourth-generation flower grower. Over the past three decades, I’ve learned so much about gardening, especially about growing flowers and the art of nurturing beauty from the soil.

Before I ever became a flower farmer, I spent 12 years studying art. That background shaped how I see the garden: color, form, and texture are all part of how I design and grow. When my husband and I bought our first home on a small lot in the suburbs, we started vegetable beds, growing everything from seed because we couldn’t afford to buy plant starts. But before long, I realized it was flowers that truly filled my cup. After we moved to our 5-acre property in the country in 2018, I began focusing on cut flowers, and that’s when I fell completely in love with dahlias.

That first year, I bought just a handful of random dahlia varieties (maybe five or six) and that’s all it took. I was hooked! Over the next few seasons, I grew more, experimented, and learned by doing (and sometimes failing!). By 2021, my collection had expanded, and I started to get a sense of which varieties I loved most. 

Somewhere along the way, I discovered that arranging flowers felt like creating art—only instead of paint or clay, I was using living, breathing color. There’s something so magical about watching people light up when they see a dahlia and say, “What is that? I need to have that in my life!”

In 2024, I decided to take the leap and turn my passion into a business. I started selling market bouquets and cut stems, and I began growing dahlia tubers commercially as part of a larger grower’s operation. Now, with our farm expanding to offer tubers for sale online, I’m thrilled to be sharing this passion with more people than ever.

For me, growing dahlias isn’t just about flowers—it’s about creating beauty, spreading joy, and connecting people to something timeless. I’ve also started exploring hybridizing new dahlia varieties from seed we've collected, which feels like the perfect blend of science and art. There’s something amazing about the idea of creating a bloom the world has never seen before.

Through every flower I grow, I’m seeking to bring a little more beauty into the world, and I'm so glad to share it with you!