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...

JessieC

SteveM
MissyWeitzel
I write back before and lost my reply! Thanks for the information. I love your pics of Cecil! The next few blooms of Mystique look better. Here are some more winners:

Penhill Watermelon is the big one here. As promised, the plant towers over the others.

A few Rose Toscano blooms here. That one is also a great plant in my hot and humid climate. Blyton Softer Gleam and Coseytown Babycakes are in here, both still in an “ugly adolescent” phase 😅

My most anticipated so far—HH Miss White. The first handful of blooms is as close to perfect as I can imagine. Long stems, and that tiny hint of purple is just amazing!

Mystique shown with Jessie G, which is a very tough and productive plant for me.

MissyWeitzel

KA's Keltie Cherry has a color that is so striking in person! It is bright but dark at the same time and it really grabs my attention from a distance. This is the first bloom so I expect the center to be better later.

Tahoma Early Dawn is so pretty! The buds start out looking quite buttery yellow so I wasn't excited at all and did not watch closely in anticipation. When the first bloom opened it really gave me a great surprise! These are the surprises I dream about in January. 😊

JessieC

Penhill Watermelon!!! Amazing blooms at barely 80 days. As promised, the plant is huge, and I’m expecting a few more blooms this week. It’s my first really big flower, and I’m so pleased 🤗

Juliarugula

JessieC I love those curly tips!

River’s Phoenix is a bit downward facing and so far every bloom has a hard center, but I 100% love it anyway. Super bright and fiery!

Happy to finally get some blooms from Hollyhill Wicked Witch - last year was a bust. It seems to be blooming with about half fully variegated and half yellow with only the tiniest of speckles.

AC Cowlitz is big and bold. It’s a deep intense purple that the photo didn’t capture well - reminds me of Seabeck’s Hilda.

WB’s Molten Lava is awesome and I’m so glad I got it. Really nice full ball shape, loads of petals, long stems, NEON orange (again, the photo isn’t capturing the color as I’d like).

blown_dry

Juliarugula I really like River's Phoenix! What a cool bloom.

Krista

Juliarugula Gorgeous blooms! I hear you on the lack of accuracy with colors translating but your photos are still lovely. Your HH Wicked Witch is fabulous. I started this season thinking I wasn’t into the variegated blooms and I’ve already done a complete 180, I’m shocked by how exciting I’m finding them suddenly!

Juliarugula

Krista I started this season thinking I wasn’t into the variegated blooms and I’ve already done a complete 180

Funny how that happens!! This year, I’m finding myself really appreciating reds for the first time.

Honnat

Wicked Witch! So cool!!

MissyWeitzel

I'm hosting my local DS garden and potluck meeting tonigh. Between pulling weeds (and my hair out!) I got a few pics of some new-to-me varieties this season.

Ruskin Tangerine is really pretty! Fingers crossed the center improves and it makes a good amount of flowers because I absolutely love the color.

River's Alex was my bonus from River's and I'm not really into yellow but man this thing is really a vigorous grower and bloomer so far.

Alpen Cherub is beautiful. I cut one 4 days ago and it still looks great on my dining room table too. 😊

Juliarugula

New blooms today

Bonhoeffer is drop dead gorgeous!

Tahoma Tiger is very pretty pumpkiny orange - it was purchased as a travel companion for other tubers and I like it more than I expected.

KAs Blood Orange has some terrible centers, but it did last year also and grew out of them, so fingers crossed.

Krista

Juliarugula Oh Bonhoeffer is gorgeous indeed! What size is Tahoma Tiger?

SteveM

Juliarugula it was purchased as a travel companion for other tubers

that's hilarious! 😄

Juliarugula

Krista

I’m guessing miniature? Definitely on the small side. 3-4” maybe?

Krista

Juliarugula Thank you, it’s very pretty!

Teddahlia

Seedling picture and name is probably a hoax as my wife Margaret would never "approve" it. Yellow flowers are currently considered to be the bottom of the barrel and where else would you find hot mustard? It does have some nice traits and I will first see if subsequent flowers are as nice as this one. Will it have a future?

Juliarugula

Teddahlia I really like that shade of yellow.

NCDahlia

Teddahlia I would grow it. Nice color.

As for a funky name no one would ever think of Hollyhill Takuan, is about the same shade of yellow. Japanese for pickled daikon radish. My grandma was Japanese only reason I know lol

Teddahlia

daikon radish is included in the cover crop seeds. It is a very easy plant to grow.

Bessie

Bessie Mistaken identity.... The tag was buried under mulch. Hollyhill Daydream is the beautiful pink waterlily, that in a previous post I incorrectly identified as Wildwood Marie.

MissyWeitzel

Kelsey Neahkahnie - I mean, how cute is that?!

Coseytown Kay is proving to be an amazing cut flower! I double checked dates and I cut these 6 days ago and had them out of water right away for photos. I then put them in a vase with a little flower food and never changed the water and somehow they're fluffier and better today! Zero signs of the center opening or wrinkling on the backs of the petals. Fantastic!

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