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The first hard frost of the season turns a dahlia patch from a wall of colour into blackened stems overnight. It's a bittersweet moment — the end of a long flowering season — but it also marks the start of the last big job of the year: getting your tubers out of the ground, divided, and safely into storage for spring. This is the highest-value task in the whole dahlia calendar. Every clump you dig can become five, ten, even twenty new plants for next season — but every divisi

Here at Pure Maiden Farm in Maiden Gully, Victoria, dahlias are one of our specialty crops, and this guide walks through exactly how we take them from bare bed to bushy, flower-laden plant — bed preparation, tuber planting, pinching, and the ongoing care that gets you to a long, productive bloom season. 1. Prepare the Bed Dahlias are hungry plants, and the single biggest lever on how well they perform is what's in the soil before the tuber ever goes in the ground. 1. Soil tes

As the cooler months arrive in Central Victoria, many gardeners assume the flower garden is winding down for winter. In reality, this is one of the busiest and most exciting times of the year on our flower farm. Autumn is the season when we begin planting many of our favourite hardy annual flowers that will provide an abundance of blooms throughout spring. At Pure Maiden Farm, we are currently planting more than 24,000 spring-flowering plants, including ranunculus corms and h

There’s nothing quite like growing chrysanthemums — those lush, colourful blooms that bring beauty and joy to any garden. If you’ve just received your chrysanthemum cuttings from Pure Maiden Farm, congratulations! You’re about to start one of the most rewarding parts of the growing journey. Here’s a simple, step-by-step guide to help your new cuttings settle in and thrive. White decorative chrysanthemum (Silent) in full bloom 1. Unpack Your Cuttings Gently When your box arri

Gardening in Australia is a rewarding experience, thanks to the diverse climate zones that allow for various flowers to bloom year-round....

Spring is around the corner—and if you’re dreaming of a blooming backyard or flower farm bursting with dahlias, delphinium and...

Picture of Salmon Ranunculi blooms At Pure Maiden Farm, we’ve grown ten thousands of ranunculus plants and learned firsthand that small...

There’s something magical about wandering through a blooming flower field, the sun on your back and the gentle rustle of petals in the...