Add These Gorgeous New Dahlias to Your Summer Garden
Looking to elevate your summer garden with vibrant colour and breathtaking blooms? Dahlias are a fantastic choice! With their wide range of sizes, shapes, and colours, from delicate pastels to bold, fiery hues, there's a dahlia for every garden style. These low-maintenance flowers thrive in full sun and well-drained soil, making them perfect for borders, flower beds, or containers. Plus,
New and Beautiful Plant Picks for 2025
As we step into a brand-new year, it’s the perfect time to embrace the boundless possibilities for enhancing your garden. Whether you’re an experienced green thumb or just starting to explore the joys of gardening, 2025 is brimming with opportunities to cultivate something truly special. This year, Florissa is excited to introduce an array of stunning new varieties that promise
Top Seven Dahlias to Bring Unparalleled Beauty to Your Summer Garden
Welcome to our guide on the top seven dahlias that promise to bring unparalleled beauty and a bounty of blooms to your summer garden. Dahlias, with their diverse colours, shapes, and sizes, are one of our favourites and for good reason. From petite pompons to dinner plate-sized blooms, there's a dahlia variety to suit every garden size, style, and taste.
Introducing New Garden Favourites for Spring!
This spring, we at Florissa are excited to introduce some exciting new additions to our lineup! Whether you’re a cut flower gardener, a vegetable gardener, or you do it all, you are sure to find something to add to your garden this spring. We have amazing new flowers, and delicious fruits and vegetables to try too. Check out our new
The Colour of the Year in Blooms: Peach Fuzz
Pantone's Colour of the Year holds a special place in the world of design and aesthetics, influencing trends across various industries. In the ever-evolving palette of hues, Peach Fuzz emerges as a captivating and warm addition. This shade, carefully selected by Pantone's colour experts, is a delicate fusion of softness and vibrancy. With its subtle undertones and evocative warmth, Peach
A Guide To Dahlia Tubers
Planting dahlias gives pops of colour and drama to your summer garden with their many different shapes, and sizes. They add the wow factor to the garden. But when it comes to selecting and planting dahlia tubers, it’s common to be a little overwhelmed. This blog is a guide to dahlia tubers; how to identify the parts of the tuber,
New for Spring at Florissa!
The new year is well underway, and that means it's almost time to get back into the garden. During the darker, cold winter days, all we can think about is those sunny spring days in the garden! Enjoying blooms, fruits, and vegetables that you've grown is such a reward. Best of all, trying new varieties in your garden is so
8 Magenta Plants for Your Garden
Long live magenta! Every year Pantone comes out with a Colour of the Year. This year, the colour is Viva Magenta. This vibrant yet deep magenta pink can be found in so many different plant families. So why not try out magenta plants in your garden? With lilies, hemerocallis, astilbe, dahlias and more available in magenta hues, you’ll be able
How to Overwinter Dahlia Tubers
Dahlias are one of the most favourite summer flowering varieties. Unfortunately, dahlia season ends as winter approaches. The cold rolls in and dahlias fade away. Unlike most perennial roots and bulbs such as lilies, dahlias tubers are not winter hardy in most Canadian growing areas. So as a dahlia gardener, you now have an extra task on your fall gardening
How to Grow, Overwinter, and Split Dahlia Tubers
Dahlias are one of the most popular summer flowers. With hundreds of different colours, shapes, and sizes, it’s easy to see why people love dahlias. You can enjoy your favourite varieties year after year with some mindful attention during the growing season and aftercare in overwintering your dahlia tubers. Dahlias are great for a cut flower garden, giving you the