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FLORA Flowers Artist turned Flower Farmer & Florist. Growing extraordinary flowers for local people to enjoy.

19/10/2026

An accidental success growing tall pansies…and now I might be hooked!

We’ll be saving seed (trying to anyway - might need to clear these beds before the seed sets) to grow next year, and potentially there might be enough for our seedling brokerage orders…

18/10/2026

Hi!

I’ve been asked by quite a few people lately (in relation to our new dahlia varieties) ‘why haven’t I heard of you before?!’

Well the simple answer to that…we don’t have time to have a huge social media presence…producing new dahlia varieties is a lot of work (and we have quite a few other things on the go), and we also like to prioritise time with family.

Besides, there’s already some fantastic NZ dahlia growers providing wonderful educational (and often entertaining) dahlia content on social media (looking at you Kate - Dahlia Tuber & Flower Grower NZ and Samantha | Buds & Blooms NZ | Flower Farm). Go follow them for all the insider tips!

So yes - you might not have heard of us before, but we are legit! We’ve been growing dahlias for 10 years, and developing new varieties for the past 5 years.

And there’s a few more years of growing left in us yet! More beauty to come 🌱

16/10/2026

NO you have not missed out on our tuber sale!

YES we are still having one

We’ve just looked at our month ahead and decided that we need to take some time to start getting our own tubers in the ground next week… otherwise we’ll have no dahlia flowers to sell in Feb (and we aim to have loads for Valentines Day)

So stay tuned…

P.S. we still have good supplies of quite a few - not that the weren’t popular the first time around…they just turned out to be excellent tuber producers and easy to divide. This includes 2 of your favourites…Gentle Dawn and Bubbly Barb!

07/10/2026

So it seems Flora’s Sandy’s Mojo is hot property at the moment! I’ve been inundated with requests for her…

We’ve got a few more tubers that we’ll be adding to our upcoming tuber sale, but there’s definitely not enough to go around.

Sorry if you miss out, but if you are patient, there are so many more lovely new varieties waiting in the wings for next years release.

Just a fuzzy-haired squinty-eyed flower farmer trying to take a half decent selfie with a massive bunch of tulips!And ju...
07/10/2026

Just a fuzzy-haired squinty-eyed flower farmer trying to take a half decent selfie with a massive bunch of tulips!

And just dropping on to the grid to say that tulips are DONE (for this year anyway)

I miss them already, but that’s a good thing. Imagine if they were available all year - then they wouldn’t be so special…

I’ve already got a few ideas about how our tulips crop might look a bit different next year 🌷which is just as well because it’s only a few months until I have to order the bulbs 💡

Well the dahlia pre-orders are all accounted for, and this Flower Farmer is feeling slightly shattered……but the ‘volunte...
05/10/2026

Well the dahlia pre-orders are all accounted for, and this Flower Farmer is feeling slightly shattered…

…but the ‘volunteer flower farmer’ has decided we should now have a sale of our remaining tubers 🫣

Fair enough for him to make this call I guess…he did dig, wash, stamp and make up boxes for all those dahlias…and he definitely doesn’t want me planting them all and hoeing up new beds to fit them in.

So it looks like we’re having a tuber sale, and we’ll be able to deliver in time for that magical Labour Weekend planting date.

Not quite sure when we’ll have it (because the volunteer flower farmer has gone on a little road trip and I need him to check my website which has suddenly started sending confirmation emails that end up in spam folders)

So if you’re on my email list, you’ll be the first to hear when (it will be later this week)

And yes, there is more stock of a few of our sold out varieties…

And it’s not too late to sign up to our email list on the dahlia page of pur website 📧

P.S. The dahlia varieties are still on the website if you want to plan ypur purchase…

If you’ve landed up on my page because you heard I sell ranunculus seedlings, (maybe you saw it on Kate - Dahlia Tuber &...
21/09/2026

If you’ve landed up on my page because you heard I sell ranunculus seedlings, (maybe you saw it on Kate - Dahlia Tuber & Flower Grower NZ post) then let me explain further…

Yes I sell ranunculus seedlings to both home gardeners and commercial flower growers

🌱 Home gardener sized seedlings are available around late April in 6 packs, couriered anywhere in NZ. This is though my MY PATCH business MY PATCH

🌱 seedlings for commercial flower growers (people who are growing to sell - minimum order of approximately 600 plants,) get preordered now, a deposit gets paid, and seedlings get delivered in April or May

So if you’re a home gardener and want to try ranunculus next year, the best thing to do is hop across to the mypatchnz account and follow along there. You can also find the mypatch.co.nz website and join the club (our email list sign up which is at the bottom of every website page)

And if you’re a commercial flower growers, then head to the flora flowers website where there is a seedling brokerage page. You can request to be added to the commercial email list from there.

P.S. No I don’t grow the seedlings myself - I get a seedling specialist nursery to do that as there are hundreds and hundreds of trays!

09/09/2026

Yes it’s confusing wearing different business hats! I have 4 distinct arms to my business, and each has its own dedicated email list that you can sign up for.

1. The tulip list (locals only)
2. The dahlia tuber list (NZ only)
3. The cut flower seedling brokerage list (NZ commercial flower farmers)
4. The My Patch list (NZ home gardeners)

It’s a bit of work to manage, but we do it so that you’re only getting emails about products that are relevant or available to you (there’s no point emailing someone in Invercargill details about how to buy our tulips!)

So if I mention that I’ve sent an email out, I usually say which group it’s for…it’s never just a blanket email to everyone who’s ever signed up for anything!

Just a PSA because my inbox gets full of people telling me they didn’t receive the email I mentioned…

Yes I still have some epic seedlings fails even though I have started probably millions of seeds!Flowers are quite parti...
07/09/2026

Yes I still have some epic seedlings fails even though I have started probably millions of seeds!

Flowers are quite particular about their germination requirements, and if you don’t get it exactly right - this is sometimes the result!

These are Larkspur…one of the trickier seeds to get through to seedling size. And that’s why I unashamedly get the experts to grow my larkspur for my flower crops (along with my delphiniums, campanula, poppies, lisianthus…and quite a few others)

And if you’re a commercial flower grower in NZ, I can organise the experts to grow seedlings for you as well, and get them couriered to your door (or the door of a friend if you live rurally!)

If you’re on our email list, we’ve just sent out the Ranunculus, Anemone and Colibri Poppy order forms, so check your emails and let me know if it didn’t turn up…

05/09/2026

How’s this for a sales pitch - come and buy our underwhelming tulips!

Yes that’s right…we want you to be underwhelmed when you pick up your tulips.

Our goal is to let YOU experience the joy of seeing these magical blooms open and continue to grow at home in your vase (and trust us - they open quickly!)

So we harvest them at the bud stage, chill them in our chiller, then wrap them tight to keep their stems nice and straight.

So if they look underwhelming, then we’ve done a great job and you’re going to get all the magic happening before your eyes.

And why should you trust us with this…because we’ve been growing and selling tulips for 8 years 🌷

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42 Viv Davie-Martin Drive
Warkworth
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