2023 - Dahlia Blooms

edewitt · 2023-06-17T14:24:58+00:00

It's a bit early but at some point everyone's going to need a place to share their glorious dahlia photos. I've got a bloom from one of the cuttings I took...

Teddahlia

There is a line of waterlilies that has spur leaves and wiry stems. My Forever has a spur leaf in your picture. Rawhide has these traits.

Teddahlia

Hollyhill Letitia won it's second best in show in the arrangement class. Gordon Jackman won in Olympia, Washington with it. I will post picture if one is available. Margaret won with it a couple of years ago. We visited friend's garden and Letitia was 6 feet tall and covered in show quality blooms. I took this picture of it in our garden a couple of days ago.

Teddahlia

Not the best lighting but this is what is on the table right now.

Bessie

Teddahlia that's a beautiful grouping of flowers. I see the tomatoes near the flowers... Have you ever seen the ethylene gas the ripening tomatoes produce cause the flowers to wilt prematurely?

SteveM

Teddahlia Not the best lighting but this is what is on the table right now.

Wonderful display, the dahlia don't look real.

AndreaB

CDP Misty Dawn is such a unique dahlia. It starts out bright pink and white and turns into this beautiful blushy color when fully open.

Krista

AndreaB Beautiful, I love the deep raspberry brush-strokes of color!

KitCMC

AndreaB they look like two completely different blooms!

Teddahlia

We have many hundreds of flowers this time of the year and if these wilt in a day or two I can always get more. I like to eat the tomatoes with salt and mayonnaise. Some animal was eating the tomatoes and left half eaten tomatoes in the dirt between the rows. The plants are half height as something(deer?) have been dining on tomato leaves. The rabbit has eaten all my swiss chard but he took a month to do it.

Teddahlia

Margaret likes waterlilies.

AndreaB

A few more recent beauties. The colors are really intensifying with the cooler nights.

Gitts Perfection

Peaches and Dreams

KA’s Keltie Rose

Worton Blue Streak

Hollyhill Pink Martini

Clearview Cinnabar

Hamari Gold

Swan’s Sunset

Labyrinth

Hollyhill Pandora

Krista

AndreaB you take fabulous photos of your blooms, these are just lovely!

AndreaB

Krista Thanks, Krista. I really enjoy photographing dahlias, almost as much as growing them! Now I just have to figure out an efficient way to store them. I’ll try to post a few more soon 😊

NCDahlia

great pictures, thank you for sharing again!

Teddahlia

I like Worton Blue Streak, an oldie but goodie.

Teddahlia

Digging, washing and storing dahlia tubers in Michigan is a challenge. We have HUMID weather in the winter and you have extremely dry air in the winter. I can leave tubers uncovered in a pile on a table in the garage and they will not freeze or dry out. They would die very quickly there.

AndreaB

Teddahlia you have extremely dry air in the winter

Yes. Temperature is much easier to regulate than humidity.

Honnat

My favorite bucket from yesterday's wholesale harvest. You can see just how dark Czarny Charkater is when it's next to a mix that includes Rivers Rosebud and Ferncliff Ebony.

Krista

Honnat wow it really is dark-dark black almost. Do you find that it actually works well in a vase? I’m trying to decide if it’s more of an anomaly or actually a play-easy bloom?

AndreaB

Honnat Nice picture! You motivated me to do a comparison of my own black beauties.
I’ve been wanting to see them together.

Pictured: Czarny Charakter, Hollyhill Black Beauty and Fidalgo Blacky

calico20hill

I grew it one year and was not sold on it as a cut flower but that was over 5 years ago and I do not remember the details. It may have been a not so good plant or that it came on too late in my garden. It looks like it grew really well for Honnat.

Teddahlia

My Forever won medal in 2019. Here it is next to HH Serenity.

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