About us
Hi, and welcome to our garden in Fort Collins, Colorado. My name is Tim and I am the owner of Pedaling Petals. Thank you for finding us and for visiting our site. While we are surprised that we are on this journey we are also happy and grateful to be here as well!
We have come to find that the benefits of flowers and gardening are wonderful for the mind, body, and soul. We hope to share that with you in whatever way that speaks to you. It could be giving flowers to someone, having fresh flowers in your house, or growing a flower garden. They all have the potential to make the world a more enjoyable place to be!
Our story
In 2020, we started growing flowers in our backyard — not as a business, just as something to do during a hard time. We didn’t even know what a dahlia was yet.
We began delivering bouquets to local medical offices, just to say thank you and bring a little joy to people who needed it.
We began delivering bouquets to local medical offices, just to say thank you and bring a little joy to people who needed it. In the years since, that grew into something we still do today: loading up buckets of dahlias onto an electric cargo bike and pedaling them over to a local nursing home, so residents there can arrange fresh blooms of their own.
That’s genuinely how Pedaling Petals began — not with a business plan, but with a bike, some flowers, and a simple idea that a bouquet can make someone’s day a little brighter.
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From Backyard to Farm
What started as a handful of flowers in our backyard has grown into a specialty dahlia farm right here in Fort Collins, Colorado, at 5,000 feet elevation. Today we grow collector-grade dahlias — including licensed KA’s® and River Merle varieties — alongside peonies, hydrangeas, and irises. We offer farm-cut blooms, a hands-on wedding flower experience, and a growing library of educational content for home growers who are just as curious as we were when we started.
We’re proud of how far the farm has come. But the reason we do any of it hasn’t changed since 2020: flowers are a genuinely simple way to bring people joy, and we still believe that’s worth showing up for.
Still Growing, Still Giving Back
We still deliver blooms to our local nursing home. It’s not a marketing story we tell once and move on from — it’s part of how we run the farm every season.
Pedaling Petals Values:
- We will inspire new gardeners to grow dahlias.
- We will use flowers to give back to our community.
- We will grow locally and sustainably.
- Gardener, community, and the earth before profit