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Beautifully untamed flowers. Wedding neutrals & softly moody seasonal blooms. Wholesale stems & DIY flower buckets. Located in Central Pennsylvania.

09/21/2026

Today was an educational and exciting day at Thief of Weeds! 🌸

I had the Plant Inspector from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture come to the farm to inspect my dahlias. She was checking to make sure the plants are healthy and showing no signs of virus or other concerns.

I’m very happy to report that we passed with flying colors! 🙌

I’ve received my inspection report, and Thief of Weeds is officially cleared to ship our dahlia tubers nationwide this spring.

I also spoke with her about the certificate needed to ship our Isao Sato pansies nationwide. Everything is still on track, and she said I should have no problems moving forward with that as well!

It also feels really good to have someone from the Department of Agriculture walk through the farm, inspect the plants, and confirm that the care I'm putting into growing healthy stock is paying off.

One more little milestone for this tiny flower farm. 🌱🌸

09/20/2026

What can a soil test actually tell you before you plant?

This is the soil test from the area where I’ll be planting my new woody shrubs next spring for Thief of Weeds.

I’ll be planting varieties including ninebark, smokebush, hydrangeas, weigela, viburnum, snowberry, and beautyberry. Plants I’m growing for their foliage, flowers, berries, and stems for floral design.

Check out the actual soil test results to get an idea of just how much information a soil test can give you before planting.

A soil test can help determine things like your soil pH, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and most importantly, whether your soil actually needs any amendments before you plant.

I like to have my soil tested in the fall when I’m preparing an area for spring planting. This gives me plenty of time to review the results, make any recommended amendments, and allows amendments such as lime time to begin reacting with the soil before the growing season begins.

The important part? Test first and amend second.

It can be tempting to automatically add fertilizer, lime, or other amendments to a new planting area, but your soil may not need them. A soil test takes away the guesswork and helps you give your plants what they actually need.

These results have helped me prepare the soil before all of those woody shrubs go into the ground. 🌿

09/18/2026

I dropped off some of my flowers with , and look what Carrie created with them! I absolutely love seeing flowers that I grew here at Thief of Weeds in the hands of talented floral designers. She took individual stems from my field and turned them into something completely beautiful.

If you aren't already following Hometown Floral, please go follow their page and see the beautiful work Carrie creates. Supporting local flowers AND local florists is a pretty wonderful combination. 🌸

Thank you, Carrie, for creating something so beautiful with my flowers. It means more to me than you know.

Grown by Thief of Weeds. Designed by Hometown Floral.
Beautifully Untamed Flowers

09/16/2026

This year I grew three different dahlia seed mixes from Floret. Canaan Girls, Bee’s Choice, and Petite Floret.

Here are just a few of the dahlias these seeds produced this year. Some are sweet, some are wild, and a few definitely made me stop and take a second look.

Growing dahlias from seed feels a little like opening a surprise every time a new plant blooms.

Beautifully Untamed Flowers

09/15/2026

Flower farmers are serious people!

Today I ordered a whole new group of woody shrubs from Farmer Bailey and within 10 minutes of the sale going live, I had already missed out on TWO varieties that sold out!

If you’ve ever heard of the Dahlia Wars, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. Apparently shrub buying can be just as competitive. 😂

These beauties will arrive in the spring, and then comes the patient part. They’ll need a couple of years to really settle in, grow, and become the incredible cut foliage and berry-producing shrubs I’m envisioning.

And I LOVE that.

The more I build Thief of Weeds, the more I realize how much I love growing something that isn’t just for next week or even next season. I’m planting things now that I’ll be cutting from for years.

I am so in this for the long haul. 🌱

So… get ready to dig about 100 holes, Chad Rickard . 😂

It looks like the land near the orchard is officially becoming our foliage garden.

And I seriously cannot wait to watch it grow. ❤️

09/15/2026

A little look ahead to 2027… 🌸

One of my biggest goals for Thief of Weeds in 2027 is to grow more flowers specifically for event buckets, florists, and wedding floral designers.

The direction for 2027 is feeling a little more painterly and moody, and because of that, my color palette is changing too.

I’m still growing flowers I love, but I’m being much more intentional about choosing varieties that designers can really use — soft blushes, creams, apricots, moody burgundies, whites, and a few unusual colors and forms that can make an arrangement feel extra special.

These are some of the lilies I’ll be growing next year:

Corsage
Apricot Fudge
Black Ship
Snowboard
White Planet
Pink Planet
Frontera
Purple Dream

I’m so excited to see these growing in the field and eventually making their way into bouquets, weddings, and floral designs.

Now I need your help…

If you were getting a bouquet, which lily would you want in it?

Tell me the color or photo number in the comments.

09/14/2026

There is something so special about growing a flower from seed, caring for it for months, cutting it at just the right moment… and then seeing a professional florist turn it into something completely beautiful.

Seeing flowers from Thief of Weeds in a designer’s hands is one of those moments that makes all the work feel worth it.

I love seeing how someone else interprets them and gives them a whole new life.

Pretty amazing feeling. 🤍

The Petal Parcel

09/13/2026

Dahlia Experiment — Day 4 🌸

Okay… I think we have a winner. For this round, plain cold tap water wins! Those blooms still look the freshest, while the flowers in the other vases look tired, worn, and ready to call it a day.

I really did not expect that. The cold-water flowers are holding up the best overall, and the hot-water group actually looks the worst. That surprised me the most, especially because hot water is one of those things you hear recommended all the time for dahlias.

The hot-water vase also has the cloudiest water by far, so it certainly appears to have the most bacterial buildup happening.

But I think I learned an even more important lesson from this experiment!!!

Terrie, who is also a Penn State Master Gardener, mentioned on Day 1 that she cuts her dahlias when the backs of the blooms are still flat. For this experiment, I purposely chose some flowers that were at that stage and some that were completely open because I wanted to mimic the way a typical home gardener might cut them.

I’ll admit, I’ve been guilty of leaving my dahlias on the plant until they’re completely open because…well…that’s when they look amazing.

So, I already know what next week’s experiment is going to be:

Dahlias cut 100% open vs. dahlias cut when the backs are still flat.

I want to see how much the stage of harvest affects their vase life.

Luckily, the dahlias are going crazy right now, so I have plenty of blooms to experiment with!

But for this round, plain cold tap water wins and that was definitely not what I expected.

09/13/2026

💛 Appleblossom💛

My favorite collarette dahlia.

I have waited all season to finally see her bloom, and she was worth every bit of the wait. Those soft, buttery-yellow petals are even prettier in person, especially with that delicate collarette center.

Some flowers are beautiful right away. Others make you wait for them.

Appleblossom was worth waiting for.

09/12/2026

Dahlia Vase-Life Experiment — Day 3

Today we are finally starting to see some real differences between the treatments.

The hot water group is showing the most decline so far, with several blooms noticeably wilting, browning, and beginning to lose their shape.

The Quick Dip, Chrysal, plain cold water, and daily-water-change groups are holding up better overall, although every vase now has at least one flower showing some signs of aging.

Here’s the part I find especially interesting:

There’s a long-standing bit of dahlia growing lore that says freshly cut dahlia stems should be treated with very hot or near boiling water. I have even tried searing the cut end with a flame to improve vase life.

For this experiment, I heated the water to 180°F and left the stems in it for an hour before transferring them to cool water.

But that group is looking the worst.

Does that mean the hot-water method doesn’t work? Not necessarily. It makes me wonder whether temperature, length of treatment, variety, or the stage of the bloom when it was cut makes more of a difference than we realize.

I’m also seeing something else fascinating. Even flowers in the same treatment are aging at different rates. One bloom can still look beautiful while the one beside it is already declining.

So, after Day 3, we still don’t have a definite winner, but the hot water treatment is definitely giving me something to think about.

This may end up creating more questions than answers…which is kind of the fun part of an experiment.

Are you surprised by the results so far?

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1650 McGill Hollow Road
Linden, PA
17744

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