Northerly Flora, 3957 42nd Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN (2025)

04/21/2025

💌Last call to order Dahlia Tubers for shipping! We still have some really nice varieties available for your gardens this year.
You have until Wednesday, April 23rd to place your tuber order if you want them shipped to you. Go to the link in our bio to place your orders!
💌We will begin shipping your tubers to you this Thursday, April 24th!
(You’ll still be able to order tubers for pick up after this date.)
💌 Reminder! Pick up will take place at our Dahlia Pop-up event on May 3rd from 10-2!

04/05/2025

My crew is coming back to work on Monday and the 2025 season starts in earnest! Season #9 for this farm. The flowers are on their way!

03/29/2025

We love dahlias, but not all dahlias are created equal! Some varieties just aren't happy in our climate, prone to virus, are weak/tiny plants or pest magnets. And to those varieties, we say 'see ya!' and they get kicked to the curb. Every year we trial some new ones and refine our grow list so we are only growing the healthiest, most productive plants. Good news for you is that you can shop our curated dahlia tubers to grow in your own gardens. Don't mess around with the duds, and just grow the strong and healthy varieties. Lots of good ones in our tuber shop still available, shipping begins mid-April!

03/22/2025

We have lots of beautiful dahlia varieties available in our tuber shop! Shipping and local Minneapolis pick up available. This is Coralie, she is an extra special one. Plant her in your own garden so you can admire her at home!

03/13/2025

Just got confirmation that we can grow on our Seward city plot again this season. This will be the 8th season on this site! Crazy. We get water from the neighbor, and the house has turned over 3 times since I've been growing there. So each time I have to re-negotiate water, but the new neighbors seem great and willing to work with us and the property owners still don't have development plans, so we are good for 2025!

Here's a photo series of the evolution of the site. It had previously been 2 houses that burned down, and had been sitting vacant. I converted it into a growing site in 2018, and for the first 2 seasons grew mixed annuals. Since 2020 it has been our dahlia plot. The visual before and after of this work never gets old. Making something beautiful out of bare brown ground is a thrill I just keep chasing.

Big news for our Seward neighbors!! we're going to rotate the dahlias to Hudson this year and grow all mixed annuals at Seward again. Which I think will be kinda fun for the passerby's. Delphinium, zinnias, asters, calendula and more!

We're rotating to alleviate some pest/disease pressure. The city plots are coveted real estate because they have far less environmental stressors (wind, storms, pests, frosts) and flowers just tend to grow better on the city plots. But I worry I'm pushing my luck with planting dahlias over and over in the same soil. And last year we had terrible aster yellows in Hudson, so we are moving some of those susceptible crops to Seward for the season and the dahlias are going to move out to Hudson for the year. So you can expect new views in the city!

03/08/2025

We're bringing back poppies this year! You're going to want to sign up for a June Subscription if you want in on these. After a few years of not growing them, I decided to bring them back after realizing we have some city tunnel space for them! It's actually because a crop failure on some of the overwintered snapdragons that is making the extra space, but I'm making lemonade out of lemons, and now I'm even more excited. The city tunnel is premium real estate, because it's the only space I can do the daily row cover and ventilation management of early spring crops. I can't get out to the Hudson property for daily management, so we have limited space for the spring tunnel crops. Poppies also need to be harvested every day, if not twice a day to catch their harvest stage window, so they can only be planted at our studio where we can manage the daily harvests. Tulips are another example of a crop like that. Anyway, just wanted to share that poppies are back, baby!

03/07/2025

Our dahlia tuber sale goes live on Wednesday, March 12 at 9am. Grow these beauties at home! We have all the varieties listed on the website under the shop tab. Take a looksie to see if anything catches your eye. New this year, we can ship! Note: all dahlias currently say sold out because inventory is zero (a website default). We'll add inventory on Wednesday morning.

Pic of Sanna because today she's off having a baby!! Send her lots of well wishes. New baby girl on the way! 💛💛💛

02/18/2025

Bouquet Subscriptions are open for the 2025 season! Sign up on our website, link in bio.

VASE SUBSCRIPTIONS-- this is an option for flowers beautifully arranged in a vase for you. These weekly arrangements are curated by our floral design team, featuring top quality blooms, 100% from our farm. It's fun to see what our design team comes up with each week! Every week is different, which a fresh color palette and new feature flower!

This subscription is a great fit for restaurants, workplaces or folks who prefer a home delivery each week. This is our only subscription with home delivery or studio pick up option.

This is a flexible subscription option, choose 4-20 weeks of arrangements, and you can pick which weeks you'd like to receive flowers May-September. $75/week for flowers delivered to your door in Mpls/St Paul. $65/week for studio pick up.

This is the best value of flowers you can order! $10 savings/week when you order via Subscription. $1500 gets you a whole season of delivered flowers to your door. Share this with people and businesses you know love fresh flowers every week--we'll keep them fresh and fun!

02/11/2025

Subscriptions are open for the 2025 season! Sign up on our website. I'll tell you a little bit more about each month.
This post is about MAY. In previous years this spring subscription has been all tulips. But now, through the perennials maturing and our trials with overwintering, we have more varieties available in May! Tulips will still be the main event, they'll be included in all the bouquets, but we will also have some really special gems like columbine, allium, amsonia, flowering branches. Hopefully the daffodils are tall enough to incorporate as well! Last year was our first season with flowering Columbine or Aquilegia. The flowers don't arrive until the second year of the plant's life, so we planted them in 2023 and were beautifully rewarded in 2024. We got a few more varieties in the ground last year, so this spring should be a real Columbine show. Can't wait to share them!

02/06/2025

We're getting prepped for our 9th growing season-- This farm has evolved each year, starting as an urban farm in 2017, and expanding onto rented land in Hudson, WI in 2020. Here are some photos of the Hudson farm over the past 5 years. Started as a blank pasture canvas, and each year we've added a few more beds, just a few more beds, just a few more beds 😊. I think we are up to 100 beds out here now. About 40% perennials and 60% annuals. Lots of hands and hearts have poured into this place, and we can't wait to see what this season brings. A heads up, we are opening up our Flower Subscriptions for sale next week, so keep an eye on your inbox to sign up for some of our bounty this season! If you haven't already, join our email list! Link in bio

12/16/2024

I've had some inquiries about 2025 Subscriptions for gift giving, so I'm sharing a note about that here. Our subscriptions go live in February of 2025, so we won't have them available to purchase this holiday season. Join our email list to get the first notifications to sign up for weekly flowers next season! For holiday gift giving, we always have Gift Certificates available on our website that can be used toward any website offering next season. Subscriptions, arrangements, workshops, dahlia tubers and more! Thanks for your continued support and local flower love!

12/12/2024

Our final Wreath Workshop of the season is tomorrow evening! Friday Dec 13, from 5:30-7:30pm. We have several spots available for this one, so there is still time to grab a ticket on the website. Bring your friends for a fun holiday activity and our final hurrah for the season!

12/06/2024

These Amaryllis Pots are so cute! Find them this Sunday at our Makers Market 10-2. You can also pre-order on our website. I love these because they are a beautiful gift for someone who doesn't need or want more 'stuff'. And it's so satisfying to have an impressive homegrown flower on your table when it's completely frozen outside!

Here's what you do on Sunday--it's supposed to be 40 degrees outside so, BALMY! Come to our market and shop some unique handmade treasures, then walk 2 blocks north for coffee and pastries at or popcorn to go then wander 4 more blocks north on 42nd for another Makers Market at for more locally made gifts! A perfect Sunday in Longfellow. See you then!

12/05/2024

More talented vendors to round out our makers market this weekend! We will also have leather works, candles, naturally dyed bandanas, textiles and more. Excited to see you at the studio Sunday from 10-2!

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11/30/2024

15% off all winter orders for Small Business Saturday! For any order of Wreath Workshops or Amaryllis Forcing Pots this Saturday and Sunday, use code SMALLBIZ on our website. Thank you!!

Our workshops have space, and we'd love for you and friends to join on:
Thursday Dec. 5, 5:30-7:30
Saturday Dec. 7, 1-3
Friday Dec. 13, 5:30-7:30

And just a quick love letter to small businesses, because today is a day to celebrate them--They are the reason that I love living in the city! They keep this place unique, fun and beautiful. And behind all of them are local people with a big dream, giving it their all. It takes grit and heart and I want all of them to thrive, so get out there and support your favorites today! Things would be pretty boring in a world of only Amazon, Costco and Starbucks.
Some of my local favorites are

And this is just my immediate neighborhood!! Who am I forgetting? 😁

11/26/2024

We are happy to welcome so many talented makers to our Makers Market on December 8th. Check out this weeks featured vendors!

11/14/2024

Join us for our inaugural Makers Market with the Northerly Flora crew and friends! Our market will feature local artists and makers selling jewelry, ceramics, textiles and everything in between 🧡

Vendors include:
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And more!

Can’t wait to see you there

11/08/2024

Wreath Workshops are a joyful way to gather during the holidays. Bring your friends and family and we'll host you at our studio for a festive wreathmaking event. You'll be able to create something uniquely beautiful from our wide selection of locally sourced winter greens, berries, pinecones and dried flowers. Tickets available on our website shop, $115/person.

Another option to keep in mind, this season we are also offering private workshops! This is a really great option for a company holiday event. Reach out to [email protected] if you'd like to learn more about our private workshops.

Northerly Flora