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Heirloom Chrysanthemum Rooted Cuttings Now Available for Spring 2026 Shipping!
Shop our heirloom chrysanthemum rooted cuttings. Choose from over 50 varieties, including carefully curated collections to suit any garden style. Each cutting is selected for quality and vitality, ensuring you receive healthy plants ready to thrive. Explore the diversity and charm of heirloom chrysanthemums and add timeless beauty to your garden or flower farm.
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Lava is a striking yellow and red spider-style heirloom chrysanthemum with large, showy blooms that light up the fall season. Its long stems and vigorous growth make it an excellent choice for both flower farmers and gardeners. Each plant produces an abundance of blooms and benefits from support to keep its stems upright as it matures.
Bloom Time: Mid October – Early November
Bloom Size: 4–6 inches
Plant Height: 3 ft
Stem Quality: Long, sturdy stems; support recommended
Best Uses: Market bouquets, seasonal arrangements, and dramatic garden displays
🌱 Growing Notes: May require frost protection depending on your zone. Heirloom chrysanthemums are not winter-hardy in most areas; we recommend treating them as tender perennials in Zones 7a and colder.
❤️ Why We Love It
Lava is a showstopper in the mum patch. Its bold two-toned spider petals add instant drama to bouquets and arrangements, pairing beautifully with other autumn blooms. Each plant reliably produces a generous harvest of usable stems, making it a dependable choice for growers. Blooming later in the season, it helps extend the harvest into November, keeping fresh flowers available when customers want them most. If you’re looking to add a unique, fiery touch to your fall collection, Lava is a must-grow.
📦 Shipping: April 2026
🌎 Available to: Continental U.S. only (cannot ship to HI or AK)
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Satin Ribbon is an exotic, light-pink heirloom chrysanthemum with unique charm in both the garden and floral arrangements. Each plant produces many stems that grow tall and strong, making support important for optimal performance. Its graceful, abundant blooms add elegance and interest to any bouquet or fall display.
Bloom Time: Late October – Early November
Bloom Size: 3–4 inches
Plant Height: 3–4 ft
Stem Quality: Tall, strong stems; support recommended for best performance
Best Uses: Market bouquets, mixed arrangements, and late-season fall gardens
🌱 Growing Notes: May require frost protection depending on your zone. Heirloom chrysanthemums are not winter-hardy in most areas; we recommend treating them as tender perennials in Zones 7a and colder.
💖 Why We Love It
Satin Ribbon is a playful and striking mum that always draws attention. Its wild, light-pink blooms stand out in bouquets and arrangements, and its timing—blooming just after early frost—makes it perfect for extending the fall harvest season. A reliable and beautiful addition to any fall flower lineup.
📦 Shipping: April 2026
🌎 Available to: Continental U.S. only (cannot ship to HI or AK)
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Mancetta Sunset is a striking bronze-red anemone-style heirloom chrysanthemum with bright yellow centers that bring warmth and depth to fall bouquets. A vigorous grower, it produces many stems per plant, each topped with sprays of blooms. With its tall, strong stems, this variety shines as a cut flower and benefits from support during the growing season to keep it upright.
Bloom Size: 2–3 inches
Plant Height: 3 – 4 ft
Bloom Time: Mid October – Mid November
Stem Quality: Long, strong stems with sprays of blooms; support recommended
Best Uses: Market bouquets, fall arrangements, and cut flower production
🌱 Growing Notes: May require frost protection depending on your zone. Heirloom chrysanthemums are not winter-hardy in most areas; we recommend treating them as tender perennials in Zones 7a and colder.
🍂 Why We Love It
Mancetta Sunset is one of our farm favorites for its reliability and abundant production. Its bronze-red petals paired with golden centers make it a standout in market bouquets, adding rich autumn tones. Blooming later in October, it helps us extend the fresh flower season well into November. This workhorse variety is a must-have for flower growers and home gardeners alike.
📦 Shipping: April 2026
🌎 Available to: Continental U.S. only (cannot ship to HI or AK)
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Dahlia Tubers
Sale starts November 1, 2025 10am EST
Shop our dahlia tubers, grown with care for over 10 years. Choose from more than 50 varieties, including specially curated collections to suit every garden style. Orders will ship in spring 2026. Explore our selection and bring vibrant colors to your garden next season.
Jowey Marilyn dahlia has deep purple 5-6inch blooms grow on top of a 4-5 foot plant with sturdy stems. It is a prolific bloomer once it starts. The lovely blooms are a great addition to any arrangement.
Welcome to our blog—where we share the rhythm of our weeks, the lessons from the field, and the beauty that comes with growing thousands of flowers in Western Pennsylvania. Whether you’re a fellow flower farmer, a customer who loves to learn more, or someone just curious about life on a working flower farm, we’re glad you’re here.
From weather woes to blooming breakthroughs, planting tips to business behind-the-scenes—this is where the story of Goose Creek Gardens unfolds, one week at a time. Each post offers an honest glimpse into the seasonal challenges and triumphs we experience as we nurture our fields and bring vibrant blooms to life. You'll find practical advice for flower growing, insights into the local environment, and reflections on the art and science of sustainable farming.
Join us on this journey through the growing seasons, where every flower tells a story and every week brings new opportunities to learn and grow. Welcome to the heart of Goose Creek Gardens.
The Flower Shack
The Flower Shack is our self-serve farm stand located at the end of the driveway on the farm. We offer the freshest seasonal flowers available grown on our farm, with selections that change throughout the year to reflect the beauty of each season. The Flower Shack is open from April through December, providing vibrant blooms for every occasion during these months.
Our Fresh Flowers
Goose Creek Gardens is a family-owned and operated cut flower farm in Cowansville, Pennsylvania an hour north of Pittsburgh. We strive to bring our customers the freshest and highest quality cut flowers and foliage that we can grow. On the farm we grow over 200 varieties of cut flowers from spring through the fall. We sell to florists, designers, and grocery stores in and around the Pittsburgh region. Introducing for the 2021 growing season, we will now be offering flowers direct to the public.
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Farm Fresh Flowers
Our availability of over 200 varieties of florals run from early spring to late autumn. Spring starts with tulip, daffodils, anemones, and ranunculus. Next come our sunflowers, zinnias, lisianthus, and many more which make up our summer offerings. We finish our growing season with over 75 types of dahlias, heirloom chrysanthemums, and ornamental cabbage.
No matter what part of our growing season, we work hard to bring the highest quality farm fresh flowers to our customers.
Our Story
Goose Creek Gardens was established in 2003 by Margie and Mark Dagnal. Margie wanted to follow her passion for growing culinary herbs and turn it into a business. For many years they grew culinary herbs and salad greens selling at farmers markets and to high end restaurants in the Pittsburgh area. Flowers were always a side part of the business that was a passion of their daughter, Kate Dagnal. In 2013 Goose Creek Gardens switched to growing cut flowers exclusively and started selling wholesale to florists and event designers. Our cut flowers were received well and we quickly ran out of space to expand as we were growing on the small 2 1/2 acre farm. In 2016 we decided to move the business and our family to a new 12 acre farm 70 miles away. This was a huge undertaking, not only were we combining two households, we were also moving an established business to a new location, and all the while trying to maintain growing and selling of our flowers. Since establishing at the new site we have expanded our flowers fields and now grow more flowers than ever before. We are excited every morning to see even the smallest changes in our fields and to see what is next for our beloved farm and for our loving family as we continue to grow. We are happy to share our journey with you!
