About Us
Welcome to Annie’s Dahlia Shop
Annie’s Dahlia Shop was born from the same soil as Annie’s Garden Blooms—a working flower farm rooted in seasonality, beauty, and a deep love for growing things well.
Our Story
What began as a personal obsession with dahlias slowly grew into something more. I grow seasonal flowers for local customers, with dahlias holding a special place on the farm year after year. As my collection expanded, so did the desire to share these varieties beyond bouquets—starting with the tubers themselves.
Annie’s Dahlia Shop is a small, carefully curated extension of my flower farm in Fort Smith, Arkansas. If you garden in a hot, humid climate, the dahlia tubers offered here have truly stood the test. Each tuber is grown, observed, and selected with intention—chosen for performance, beauty, and garden reliability.
Grown with Care
These are not mass-produced tubers. Each one is grown on my flower farm, lifted and stored by hand, and inspected to ensure it is healthy and viable. My goal is simple: to send you tubers I would be excited to plant in my own garden.
Following precautions recommended by the American Dahlia Society, I take sanitation and disease management seriously and build those practices into every stage of growing. While no grower can guarantee disease-free tubers, the steps below are intentionally designed to minimize risk and promote strong, healthy plants:
Isolated growing: Dahlias are grown in individual grow bags to reduce soil-borne disease transmission and limit cross-contamination.
Daily monitoring: Plants are walked and observed daily. Any plant showing signs of stress, disease, or abnormal growth is promptly removed and disposed of away from compost and production areas.
Tool sanitation: Cutting tools are alternated between plants and sanitized in a 10% bleach solution, in line with ADS recommendations for preventing mechanical disease spread.
Proactive pest management: Thrips and other vectors are managed proactively, beginning before the growing season and continuing on a weekly rotation using multiple control methods.
Clean digging and dividing: All equipment used during digging and dividing is thoroughly sanitized to reduce the risk of transferring pathogens.
I grow with intention, care, and respect for the plant—and for the gardener receiving it.
Growing Together
Whether you’re planting your very first dahlia or adding to a well-loved collection, I’m glad you’re here. I hope these tubers bring you the same joy they bring me—quiet anticipation in spring, abundance in summer, and the kind of beauty that makes you stop and stare.
Happy growing,
Annie
Annie’s Dahlia Shop 🌸