North Shore
Blooms
Hello!
Welcome to my page! I am eager to share all the amazing flowers I have been growing and will update with new varieties as they bloom.
New update! Fresh cut flowers will be available this summer at Bob's Fruit Stand in Delbook Plaza, North Vancouver!
My flower obsession started from a very young age. My parents were avid gardeners and always encouraged us to help in the garden, to learn about plants and how they grew. My dad loved colourful flowers and the more unusual looking the better. My mom simply had to look at a flower and it would bloom for her. Dahlias are my main focus now but I also grow lots of other flowers varieties for cutting and companion planting as well. Be warned, once you start growing dahlias the obsession is real for many gardeners and there are just so many varieties to choose from it is an easy habit to feed.
Quick fact: Dahlias are octoploids with eight sets of chromosomes, as opposed to the usual 2 sets in most other plants, resulting in far greater diversity in colour, shape and size of the blooms and plants. Dahlias also contain many transposons, “jumping genes” that move from place to place in the DNA sequence, which adds to their diversity. There are something like 27,000 names varieties and more hybridized every year. I hope you find these flowers as beautiful and fun as I do.
The photos on this site are of the flowers actually grown in my garden so you will know what to expect. Most of the descriptions are taken from online sources, so much flowery prose is beyond my patience.
I have included in these pages some growing tips I found helpful and links to some local resources such as independent growers, the Vancouver Dahlia Society and some great local Facebook groups.
Dahlia tuber sales will resume in March 2026. I have only a few of some varieties and lots of others, if I run out of something you want please reach out and I can likely point you to another seller. I am also going to take a cuttings from the ones I don't have many of to increase the supply. Please do not buy tubers from the big box stores, they are all Dutch imports and riddled with disease. There are dozens of small local farms that will sell and ship tubers to you.
