Four More Mixed Dahlia Arrangements - October 2025

Yes, the season is ending soon.  And, yes, we still have plenty of flowers.  There's some thinking around 'letting your dahlias go to seed' and stop 'deadheading' them weeks before your first frost.  That way, they can finish up their growing cycle and begin to wind down and put energy back into their tubers.  But, I'm thinking....that's for professional growers.  People who are in the business of selling tubers. 

Me?  I'm (apparently) in the business of cutting dahlias and putting them in mason jars along with some other bits of foliage from around the garden.  Here, below, are four recent arrangements.  All the same.  It is, for me, getting a little monotonous.  But, that's not the case for the recipients.  These four went to four different places - some on our block, some as gifts and others to my Mom and Sister.   

Speaking of gifts....some good news:  I was able to get back about a half-dozen jars.  I've landed on buying/using only vases/jars that can *fit* in a car's cupholder.  Mason jars, re-used spaghetti sauce jars, small vases.  They all work for me.  

Last year, I made some LARGE winter arrangements.  This year, I'm going to focus on mason-jar-sized ones.  Which...reminds me:  I have to start to get out and harvest some pine cones in the coming weeks.