Rooted & Rising Arrives This Week

Delivering the May Subscriber Perk

There is something beautiful about this stage of the season.

The waiting of spring slowly gives way to the quiet rhythms of early summer. Tiny dahlia sprouts begin stretching toward the sunlight. Young plants gain strength with each passing day. Gardens start to feel alive again.

And during this important season of growth, we’re excited to finally deliver this month’s subscriber perk to our Flaming Acres subscribers.

Rooted & Rising: Early Summer Dahlia Care

This month’s guide was thoughtfully created to walk alongside you as your garden begins to awaken in full. As tiny sprouts stretch toward the sunlight and young plants begin gaining strength, this season becomes less about waiting…and more about tending with intention.

Inside your guide, you’ll find simple, encouraging support for these important early weeks of growth:

• Watering with confidence

• Encouraging healthy roots and strong stems

• Supporting young plants before summer winds and blooms arrive

• Learning when to step in—and when to simply trust the process

There is something especially meaningful about this phase of gardening.

Not every season is filled with blooms right away. Some seasons are quieter. Slower. Rooted deeply beneath the surface before beauty fully arrives.

And yet, these early weeks often shape the strength of everything that follows.

We hope this guide encourages you not only as a gardener, but also as someone learning the gentle rhythm of nurturing growth with patience and care.

Looking Ahead to June

Tending What’s Growing: A Summer Guide for Dahlias & the Cutting Garden

As the garden settles into the early rhythms of summer, June’s subscriber perk will continue walking alongside you through this important season of growth and tending.

Tending What’s Growing: A Summer Guide for Dahlias & the Cutting Garden was thoughtfully created to help you care for your garden as stems strengthen, roots deepen, and the first signs of summer abundance begin to emerge.

Inside, we’ll explore practical dahlia care through the warmer months—from watering and heat management to supporting healthy plants and creating a simple cutting garden filled with flowers that beautifully complement dahlias throughout the season.

Because summer gardening isn’t only about the blooms that eventually appear…

it’s also about learning how to faithfully nurture what is still growing beneath the surface.

Thank You for Growing Alongside Us

To every subscriber who continues to support Flaming Acres Dahlias—thank you.

Your encouragement, kind messages, shared photos, and support continue to bless us more than you know. We truly love creating these seasonal guides and resources for this growing community of flower lovers and gardeners.

We hope Rooted & Rising brings encouragement and confidence to your garden this month, and we cannot wait to share Tending What’s Growing with you in June.

With gratitude,

Debra Flaming

Flaming Acres Dahlias