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  • Dahlia Seedling Pictures - 2023

Juliarugula Those are Agastache . One of the plants that keep popping up as seedlings long after you have eliminated them from your cutting patch!

    Krista That "pinky bloom" is Bloomquist Alan. First bloom of it for me. It goes through some interesting color changes as it opens and has so many petals! It still has center on it that is not open . This is its first bloom for me.

        calico20hill Oh no kidding - I didn’t recognize it with the color shift! Thank you, I had no idea it changed so much.

          SteveM This is a really important point and perspective. Thanks for sharing it! Could you imagine getting cuttings for less than a $1 now. 😱 Storing tubers requires next level skill so I can understand why they treated them like annuals especially in a warmer climate.

            Here is my nice surprise from one of the seedling patchs.... It is a seedling from Wyn's NEW Pastel. Looks like it will be a B sized bloom and I hope it holds its center . I had a lot of seedlings from Wyn's NEW Pastel so this is just the first of them to bloom.

              calico20hill Ohhh beautiful, the coloring is so lovely - I can’t wait to see more of her sisters!

                I am cruising the seedlings today and I stop in my tracks as I see a perfectly formed miniature formal decorative flower in coral pink. Divine form and I take several pictures. Then I crawl on the ground to determine what is the parent of this magnificent seedling. The tag has my typical almost illegible scribble in sharpie ink: it says 22-06 or Dikara Superb. Obviously, it is Dikara Superb. Nice healthy stock. I will not be entering it into the trial gardens.

                When we started breeding in the early 1990s, Chilson's Pride was the most planted dahlia of all. We liked the colors but it could fade and the tips of the peals would get notches in hot weather. It always made lots of easy keeping tubers. We saved seeds from it and anything that sort of looked like it and none of the seedlings were even halfway good. We gave up on that goal.
                Now it is 2023 and we may have a really nice seedling that looks like Chilson's Pride. It is totally unrelated to C. Pride and is actually a result of several years of our breeding.
                The real thing from Lobaugh's Dahlias

                  I have to say, I like your flower much better. I got so tired of dealing with all the blooms Chilson's Pride put out and none of my customers wanted it because they were too used to it. Now nearly 20 years later maybe there will be a new appetite for it. It looks like yours has the same split tips when it is warm out...

                  Correction...doesn't have the split tips! I was looking at the Lobaughts flower on the screen here, Yoursi is quite an improvement.

                  However, ours does not have the incredible back story of Nick Gitts SR giving it to Carl Chilson.

                  I like both , but your seeding I like the ends of the petals more? I have always felt Chilson's Pride and the split tip look is like "we can be better"

                  Black!

                  THis morning my seedling surprise is a black pom! Can you beleive this?! IT is black as black can be and with long strong stems. I think it is part of the patch of HH BLack Beauty seedlings, and it has the beautiful ferny leafed foliage. Makes MY day!

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