GIVEAWAY: Dahlias, seeds, + snips!
We are excited to announce a giveaway! This is your chance to win a variety of our favorite dahlia tubers and grow your own joy. Here’s the lineup of what you could win:
Allie White
My favorite white dahlia, an unknown and underrated beauty! Allie White is a stunning addition to any garden.
Andrea Lawson
The sweetest white ball dahlia with a touch of lavender at the center. Andrea Lawson is reliable, productive, photogenic, and sure to charm you.
American Dawn
A dahlia with the most complex colors, stunning in all weather. American Dawn is raspberry with orange undertones and touches of lavender. This is a true stunner.
Crichton Honey
The most delightful dahlia with soft round petals, peach to honey coloring, and charming curly petals as the weather cools. Crichton Honey is truly delightful.
Cafe Au Lait
The queen of dahlias, as they say. Cafe Au Lait has incredible color, impressive form, and impossibly gorgeous shades of cream and the occasional blush tones. This dahlia is a must-have for any garden.
Gitts Attention
A popular favorite white dahlia that is incredibly prolific, sturdy, and a true white. Gitts Attention has lacinated petals which gives it incredible texture and interest.
Linda’s Baby
Practically perfect in every way. Linda’s Baby has a gorgeous peachy punchy raspberry color with a perfect little shape and is incredibly prolific!
Peaches ‘N Cream
There is no other dahlia that has it all like this one. Peaches 'N Cream is early and productive, with incredible lines created by perfectly formed petals that can show pink to orange, or more commonly, buff-blush to peach. A must-grow for any garden enthusiast.
Sheer Heaven
A very popular favorite for obvious reasons; Sheer Heaven is breathtaking to grow, with shades of pale blush and lemon blending beautifully in this productive dahlia.
Rock Run Ashley
Highly sought after buff/blush dahlia that is one of the first to bloom in my garden and sends up loads of blooms and makes lots of tubers!
But that's not all! In addition to these beautiful dahlia tubers, the winner will receive a pair of my favorite ARS fruit pruners and a pack of luminous mix pastel zinnia seeds. Good luck!
How to Enter
Entering our giveaway is easy and takes just two simple steps:
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Tag 3 friends on our giveaway reel who need more dahlias in their life.
The winner will be announced at1pm on 12/22 and the dahlias will ship in April '24. We can't wait to see who will grow their own joy with our dahlia tubers. Good luck to everyone who enters!
November Wedding at The Sixpence - Mariah + Ty
A late fall wedding turned winter wonderland for the sweetest couple at The Sixpence in Whitestown Indiana!
Mariah’s style shone with its simplicity and gorgeous lines; a statement installation of greenery with a touch of seasonal color; red maple leaves.
Not only was the light soft and dreamy inside, the outdoor capture of the snow and bridal party are such a warm and happy sight. The bridal party braved the weather in their gorgeous wraps and their bravery made for some unbelievably gorgeous photos:
The florals of the day featured numerous styles and colors of roses, more types of greenery than I can count, and my very favorite chocolate cosmos. While my garden was done for the year, I was able to use some of Bluebell’s very own rose hips and lavender foliage for the sweetheart table and bridal bouquet!
The groom’s custom suit in a rich warm burgundy complemented the ivory rose boutonniere featuring my favorite little sea star fern.
I just can’t overstate how sweet this bride and family. In love with this image below of the dreamiest snowy light.
Special thanks to Welch’s Wholesale for the beautiful product and to Traci of Love Light Events LLC!
Wedding Planning & Design: @lovelighteventsllc
Venue: @the_sixpence
Catering: @citybbq
Photographer: @abbeyelainephoto
Florist/Floral Designer: @bluebellhouseflowers
MUA/MUA Team: @pretty_brwneyez10
Hair Stylist/Team: @blendajohnson
Rentals: @aclassicpartyrental
DJ: @nikofloresmusic
Transportation: @317limo
Bride Attire: @luxereduxbridal
Bridesmaids Attire: @bellabridesmaidsindy
Groom & Groomsmen Attire: @toptailorsusa
2023 Local Flower Bouquet Subscription Delivery: Zionsville and Westfield
2023 Local Flower Subscription Delivery for Westfield and Zionsville, IN
Planning is underway for breathtaking color palettes for the 2023 Local Flower Subscription Delivery! A few important details to introduce this new offering:
Delivery is available for local flower enthusiasts living in zip codes: 46074, 46069, 46062, 46033, 46032
Subscriptions are available for the months of May, June, July, August and September; each month includes 4 weeks of deliveries.
After the month or months are chosen, the options are as follows:
Market Bunch: One bunch of a single type of flower
Designer Bouquet: A carefully curated collection of blooms of the season’s best.
DIY Bucket: A carefully curated collection of blooms ready to be arranged by you!
Explore options: Subscription Listing
A gift for a friend or for your home/business, these seasonal and aromatic blooms are selected, planted, tended and harvested by hand and delivered right to your porch. Flowers are grown on the grounds of The Sixpence in Whitestown, IN, and are harvested on Mondays, conditioned overnight, and delivered Tuesday for the freshest blooms possible.
We grow the finest cuts from around the world right here at home in Indiana; ranunculus and poppies bred in Italy, lisianthus bred in Japan, and a variety of small farms and breeders around the United States make up the uniquely curated selections grown at Bluebell House Flowers.
Do good with flocal flowers: A bouquet delivery subscription is a fully compostable gift option; no gift wrapping/boxing ends up in a landfill! We reuse our buckets and the kraft paper wrap is home compostable. Additionally, local flowers are thought to have up to a 10 times lower carbon footprint than traditionally sourced flowers that are flown in from overseas countries and Central and South America.
Examples of the types of flowers in the subscription deliveries are shown in the photos. Flowers may include ranunculus, icelandic poppies, peonies, anemones, lisianthus, zinnias, cosmos, dahlias and an array of specially curated supporting flowers. Life is too short for boring flowers!
Customer testimonial:
“The flowers are always incredibly unique, special and absolutely stunning! Each arrangement was delivered with great communication and a personal touch. You can’t ask for a better experience when you order from Bluebell House. Plus, you’ll feel great supporting a local business!” -Jennifer
Finally, Georgia O’Keefe puts the power of flowers into words here:
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” -Georgia O’Keefe
Why I’m Thankful for Cut Flower Growers.
Why I’m thankful for cut flower growers.
Cut flower growers have guts unlike any other. Growing specialty cut flowers is an intensive practice that is a never-ending learning curve, a reaching for beauty in opposing forces of nature, and a heroic and gorgeous campaign to steward the earth.
I’m thankful for the enduring optimism of the grower; rescuing the flowers from weeds by hand, buying seeds in the dead of winter, hovering over dirt in garages as tiny miracles (seeds) come to life again, and sharing the beauty with anyone who will listen. In short, these gardeners are continually seeing the imperfect world, and moving foward with determination and hope. Watch out for all of us with a pocket full of seeds;)
I carry around a bag that says, “I am still learning” to remind me that learning is a lifelong adventure, and I think that’s why I love flower people; like any good artist, the growth mindset of this entire group of people is admirable and a fantastic thought process to adopt as we go through our life stages. The truth is, no flower grower knows everything because it’s an art and a science; rather we are always observing, taking notes (or photos), adjusting, and trying again next year.
““I am still learning.”
The gardener does all these things in pure optimism, hope, determination, and humility…because they know the weather can undo it all in a moment. A gorgeous stand of flowers can be flattened in a rain storm, a white lisianthus that has been growing as long as a human fetus to reach its maturity, can be bruised in a rainstorm. The whole thing is a giant risk that each and every grower weighs and decides the beauty of a flower is worth it all.
The local flower growers take care of the earth; they just do. Contrary to flowers flown in, locally grown flowers boast a carbon footprint 10 times less than some imported florals (Becky Swinn, Lancaster University). When my kids bring up concerns about the environment I am always proud to point to flower farmers who are chipping away right where they are to make a positive impact on our soil and evironment. This stewardship matters. Keep it up, growers.
So, on Thanksgiving 2022, in the middle of travel and business, I want to make sure I take time to say “I’m thankful for you growers”; thank you for supporting our small family business , for seeing potential in tiny seeds and brown tubers, and for letting flowers transform us all into determined and hopeful people.
-Lydia
If you are understandably tired at the end of the season and need inspiration, some pages I love: