policies

Date of Sale

March 2025. Newsletter subscribers receive the date and time first.
As listings are added closer to the sale, all products will say “Sold Out” until I hide the shop page to enter inventory. 

Will my selections be safe in my cart?

NO. I’m sorry to say that adding tubers to your cart will not keep them safe from someone else buying them. This platform does not support cart holds. The quickest to checkout gets the tubers. My best advice is to make multiple orders starting with the tubers you want the most.

Payment

Visa (credit & debit), MasterCard (credit & debit), Amex, Discover, Apple Pay. For faster checkout, it may help to create an account and store shipping and payment information. CA residents will be charged tax on tubers purchased at the rate of 7.75% as required by law.

Order cancellations

All purchases are final. We will not cancel or give refunds once orders are placed.  

shipping

All US orders of dahlia tubers will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail. 1-4 tubers=$11  5-15 tubers=$19.30  16-30 tubers=$26.00. 

We will begin packing tuber orders immediately, in the order they are received, so they may ship out early in the week. Since this will be our first Fall shipped sale, I’m hoping we can ship all orders in one round, but I won’t really know until we’re in the thick of it. I will do my best to keep everyone updated!

For questions about your order, please contact me through email, and include your order number in the subject line. For combined shipping you must reach out immediately after placing your order with the name and order #’s to be combined.I will only combine shipping for multiple orders placed under the same name and directed to the same address. Email alicia@bloomtideflowers.com Any excess shipping paid will be refunded at shipping time.

Important: If you don’t email me I will assume you don’t mind paying extra shipping and I won’t guarantee your orders will be combined.

Canada shipping info coming soon

What should I expect?

I do not promise pretty tubers, or tubers of a certain size. Tubers can be pinky or fist sized, smooth or wrinkly. Our prices do not reflect the physical beauty of a tuber. Keep in mind, dahlia tubers are perishable products that have matured several inches beneath earth’s soil amongst crawling critters, then yanked up, sawed apart, handled, and flown hundreds of miles. My priority is to provide you the material to grow a healthy plant that will reward you with a bounty of beautiful blooms. I sell single divided tubers from dahlias grown on our farm, packed to the best of my ability. I do not resell dahlia clumps.

I placed an order, now what?

As orders are fulfilled and a shipping label gets printed, our system automatically notifies you by email of your tracking number. Please keep your eyes peeled for that number, and keep up with your package’s delivery date and time. We are not responsible for any tubers that are to be shipped through storms or to destinations where the temperatures are not ideal. Do not leave them to perish in your mailbox or freezing garage. Open your packed tubers immediately upon arrival!

You have 2 days from receipt of order to contact us with questions or concerns.  Using the links provided on the contact page, include your order number and if applicable, clear in-focus pictures and, or a short video detailing the source of your concern.

what about virus?

Our #1 priority is to grow healthy dahlias that will in turn, make tubers that will grow into healthy dahlias for you. We invest heavily into our soil health, text regularly with our beneficial insect guy (his name is Erik and he’s awesome), sterilize our our tools with 10% bleach solution in between each plant when cutting flowers and when digging and dividing, spot test with AGDIA test strips, pass our farm inspections by the Humboldt County Department of Agriculture (Hi Scott!), I inspect plants constantly throughout the growing season, and I aggressively cull plants that show signs of disease or poor performance. We can take every precaution and follow every step in the book, but nature is going to nature and a plant that appeared virus free on our farm may show signs in your garden the next season, or even be infected upon sprouting and show symptoms soon after. I do appreciate feedback, and hearing any performance issues you may experience. By purchasing our tubers you accept that virus is not 100% avoidable.

Do you guarantee your tubers?

All tubers are guaranteed to have at least one eye, even though they might not be visible at the time they are received. They have been checked multiple times, but keep in mind that eyes we saw when dividing might have receded by the time your tubers make it to you. Tubers are only guaranteed to have an eye and be healthy enough to grow. They aren’t guaranteed against poor growing practices, damage in the case you may pre-sprouting or using them to take cuttings, acts of mother nature, or anything else that goes wrong once they have left my hands. If they do not grow and are found to be blind and the tuber is intact, you will receive a refund for that tuber. I’m happy to troubleshoot with you and answer any questions about the growing process.

We all have different experience levels growing dahlias, and I have no way of knowing yours when you reach out, so please understand that I will likely respond with questions to try to figure out the situation. 

A note from Alicia:

This is a wild time to love and purchase dahlia tubers! I know firsthand the disappointment of losing a tuber, or two, three, four, or five that I really want, and I know that I don’t have enough of some that I offer for everyone who wants one. But I try. The dahlias I select and grow to sell are years in the making. I purposely hold back on many cultivars to increase my stock until I have what I feel, for our farm size, is a nice amount to go around. 

This website has been created with the very best intentions to host a sale that is both successful for my business and for your gardens. I hope you can snag at least one treasure and that the process runs smoothly. All of the trial runs will not be the same as when the site goes live, so I ask for your patience and trust that I am doing my best.

By purchasing dahlia tubers from Bloom Tide, you acknowledge that you have read and accept these policies.