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...

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.

Bessie

edewitt here's what the Beaucon White I have from Tall-grass Farms looks like. I think I ordered a Beaucon White and also got one as a free bonus. One of the tubers didn't make it.

Krista

I popped out to deadhead this evening and discovered a couple really fun variegated’ish Hollyhill Daydream blooms!

Juliarugula

Krista discovered a couple really fun variegated’ish Hollyhill Daydream blooms!

Those are really fabulous!!

KitCMC

Krista so excited to see what happens!

Emilyp

Krista My sweet peas will have striped patterns like this sometimes, it is color breaking due to a sweet pea mosaic virus. I hope that yours is a sport and not a virus because it is quite beautiful!

Teddahlia

That is a very novel pattern of color. Never seen it before. To call it variegated or bicolor is an understatement.

Krista

Teddahlia It’s very thrilling. I have three blooms doing this right now, here’s the last one.

SteveM

Krista Neato! Are all 3 blooms coming from the same branch or is the whole plant sporting these?

NCDahlia

Krista wow so so awesome. Since u have so many shoots from the original tuber, flag the 2 stalks that has the sports. Perhaps u might get a tuber of it with that coloration when u divide.

Krista

SteveM Oh, I didn’t think to look! Wow, the blooms are coming from different branches! I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t cut any shoots back and have about 9 growing from the tuber. So far the stripey blooms are coming from two different stalks. All that are blooming as expected are blooming from before. I can’t wait to keep an eye on this plant!

edewitt

Hollyhill Ambiance has reached critical pink.

Brooksie is finally producing some decent blooms.

Edna C bloomed a quite large bloom but all the following blooms are about 6".

Wyn's Ghostie is back and currently bug-free.

AC CJ is the orangest of the orange.

Polka is pretty unique.

Krista

NCDahlia Oh, are you saying I can follow the stalks down and maybe find a tuber connected to one of those, specifically, that has the potential to produce these sported blooms consistently? Whoaaaa. I will definitely do this.

edewitt I like how much pink you’re getting on your Brooksie, my first bloom was very very goldie-yellow and I like yours lots. And I think Wyn’s Ghostie has officially hit my want list for next year, what a pretty bloom you have! I wonder how AC CJ’s orange compares to Vesuvius’ orange?

Teddahlia Oh my, swoon!

Teddahlia

Second year seedling and we grew it a second year believing it would not still look like this. It does still look like this. About 3.5 inches in diameter and about a 6 feet tall plant.

SteveM

Teddahlia Is that a dark purple or dark red? It looks to me to be the darkest purple I've seen in a long time. Jack Almand had a ball (I think a seedling) that I grew (decades ago) for one year and lost it. I don't know why dark purple seems so much harder to breed than dark red. Really nice!

blown_dry

Teddahlia OMG so cool!

KitCMC

Teddahlia wow wow wow!

AndreaB

[unknown] That’s stunning.

Krista

I have some small blooms coming in on Sandia Bertha that are really sweet, almost looking bi-color.

WB Saffron has one hot pink stripe!

Pot tuber of Camano Concord decided to push out a bloom

Clearview Pataha still wants to be peachy-coral

And getting pretty curious about this bud on AC Tweedly Dum

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