Aporo Road Blooms is a flower farm and studio on a four-acre block at 290 Aporo Road in Tasman, near Nelson. It grows dahlias and specialty cut flowers, and it has its own line of dahlia varieties from its breeding programme. The farm began in 2021, when the owners turned a block of old cattle paddocks into rows of flowers. Look for the flower flag at the roadside.
Everything in the buckets and bouquets is grown on the farm and picked fresh each day. Over the summer the roadside flower shed sells grab-and-go bunches, bouquets can be ordered, and there is a DIY bloom bucket for people who want to arrange their own flowers. The farm wraps and ties its bouquets with biodegradable and compostable materials. The dahlia bar opens at 7.30am, Monday to Saturday, until the day's flowers sell out.
The farm says visitors and future workshop guests can walk through the rows, and the season runs from the first spring flowers until the first heavy frost. For orders or questions, the website gives a contact named Leila.