Dahlia Seedling Pictures - 2023

Wow! Stunning with the dark stems on it as well!

Florets are much flatter than Code Red.

calico20hill The stems are as solid as sticks. Which is great because it's growing on the western edge of the field and recent summer storms have been punishing.

Teddahlia Code Red was surrounded by formal decs in the field. I always felt like the color of Code Red was the perfect Valentine red. Unfortunately, due to a communication error my Code Reds were mixed up with some other HH dahlias at dividing time. Unmarked or potentially mislabeled tubers get thrown in the mystery box lot. So they are all growing around the country this year.

Cosey really pretty! Both form and color!

HH Code Red was the top scorer at a trial garden back when. There are so many nice formal decorative red flowers out there but it is a personal favorite. It seems to be a survivor as it was a 2014 seedling. It has Barbarry Red Dwarf and Chimacum Troy genes. Hard to get those to breed with these days.

Cosey It looks like a fabuous cut flower.

Salish Sundown Here is one I have been working with for 3 years...it is a seedling of Salish Twilight Girl ..by far the most interesting one. It was mostly open center the first year but for 3 years now I have been selecting the best seedling that still carry the color pattern and it is vastly improved. I really enjoy using this one in bouquets...so much one can do with it! And it has sthat tall sturdy plant with long stems and the fernlieaf foliage.

calico20hill that variegated one is so cool! I hope it keeps doing well for you!

Ted, Your Micro is so cute! I would love to grow that! I am always fascinated with teeny tiny flowers . With the right tiny containers it would be so cute to make little bouquets to go at each place setting for something like a baby shower, or birthday party.

Teddahlia I'm having so much fun with my micro collarettes this year and would love a double micro dahlia. That one is really cool! I brought some to one of my florist shops as an extra this week and the florists loved them too, even with shorter stems.

calico20hill I love this one. Nothing else quite like it!

I accidentally pinched my seedlings so my first one to bloom took forever!
Last year I planted like forms together and culled open center dahlias before starting to mark new blooms to eventually save seeds from. When I grew seeds in previous years I didn't save any information about seed parent. This year I'm excited to have more information about them.
This is the only Kelgai Ann seedling to survive my foolish hands this spring. Not a waterlily but it is loaded in buds and my florists will certainly use it. It's funny because I think I can guess where the pollen came from and it wasn't from all the nearby waterlilies. Unfortunately I think it came from Jayleene G, and inherited the shimmer, nice plant and stems part but also unfortunately the form.

MissyWeitzel so exciting! I can’t wait to see what your seedling patch unfurls this summer!

I hesitate to post seedling pictures onto Facebook or Instagram as there are too many people who immediately bug you to buy the un-named hopeful flower. One of our minor goals is to produce waterlies of different sizes and here is picture of a really
nice, very small waterlily. Breeding happens in two ways: (1) You carefully control pollen and cross two selected plants and double up on good genes and add good genes to the seedlings in a very scientific way (2) You accidentally get something you did not expect and it is really nice. This seedling is in the latter category.

Cosey That's great, LeeAnn! You are going to need yet another isolated bed to carry this line forward.

Cosey purple with chartreuse is such a great color combination! Cheering her on!