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

Zwink is "far out" as the beatniks used to say.

Juliarugula

I should also post an updated photo of Wyn’s Eeek!, as it has reached peak Eeek! (About five days into its vase life here…)

Krista

Juliarugula Oh I’m getting so excited for this one - glad to hear she shaped up!

Juliarugula And swoooooon - she’s as glorious as I’d hoped she’d be, what a fabulous one!

Teddahlia Yeowzahhhh, gorgeous! This year has won me over in the variegated color category! I can’t believe I walked into the season on the fence.

Teddahlia

Here is a picture of a variegated waterlily that is growing in the garden. Is it HH Tigress or is it a seedling? I need to
"go to ground"and extricate the plant tag.

MissyWeitzel

I only had one Clearview Leroux bloom this season. The plant was shaded out by taller neighbors. It didn't wow me but I'll give it another go next year and see if it's better with more sun and a year of acclimating to my soil.

Krista

MissyWeitzel I’m glad you’re giving this one another chance. This was a surprise standout for me this year, I was not expecting to love it as much as I did. She’s pumped out numerous enormous blooms at a time on sturdy tree-trunks for stems. And when left to fully ripen they almost begin to do that lovely birds-nest formation which I’ve fallen in love with this year!

Teddahlia

Hollyhill Court Jester is an old one now . We got new stock.

edewitt

Teddahlia how many variations have you had of unstable red and white intros? I'm still hoping to score HH Joker's Wild or HH Jester next year.

Teddahlia

" HH Joker's Wild or HH Jester next year." We always grew HH Jester because it had many solid red flowers and we needed red. For whatever reason we no longer have it and Jokers Wild has not been in our garden for over 10 years. Court Jester was the rarest one that Margaret likes the best. We got some good stock this year.

JessieC

Juliarugula Beautiful, and a perfect pairing with that cute vase!

Emilyp

Krista Krista, I was just looking up #chinadolldahlia on Instagram to see what it is supposed to look like (I have one growing that doesn't look like what I thought it should) and an account called cheviotflowers had a picture of China Doll with the exact same stripey pattern that your HH Daydream has. I thought you might want to see it!
It doesn't solve anything, but I thought it was pretty crazy that I we have never seen that pattern before o dahlias, and now there it is twice in one week! It is the post with the picture of Night Silence on the cover, and it is the second photo.

Krista

Emilyp Whoaaaa 🤯 you’re right, it’s the exact same pattern. Wild! Maybe cheviotflowers and I are the first two carriers of a newly mutated sweet pea mosaic virus expressed now, in dahlias. 🥴

Emilyp

Krista Ok, this is getting ridiculous.. Just saw the same stripes on a Carolina Wagemans on the Waterlily Dahlias Admiration Society page on facebook. What is the deal? All waterlily form flowers...Maybe it has always been around, just never noticed it?

Juliarugula

Emilyp 🤣. I saw that same one! But honestly,it’s sort of starting to look familiar now, like I’ve even seen it on some of my own flowers. Maybe it’s a cooler weather color change thing?

Although I think Krista’s was sort of unusually dramatic…

Krista

Emilyp How wild! I went and peeped it and you’re right, same situation. Juliarugula that’s an interesting thought - a cooler weather symptom - perhaps at varying degrees of intensity? My curiosity is peaked!

Teddahlia

An oldie but goodie appeared in the garden: Hollyhill Cafe' Rose' It is an "A" sized flower that Margaret used in a best in show arrangement. It has always had tuber storage issues and has been very scarce.

edewitt

"Alpen Diamond" with a shy petal.

Mercury is looking a lot more like the Swan Island photo this year.

Hapet Electra's got some interesting coloring variegation-wise.

calico20hill

Here was my surprise for the day. I did not know that I still had Hollyhill Dragon Fire and ther it was blooming with the HH Maisie's. . Probably the prettiest one I have ever grown of it.

calico20hill

What a joy to have Salish October Wedding back thanks to our friend in Alaska! She was able to get it for me and it is finally in bloom...just as it was 6 years ago when I used it in my daughter Kristie's wedding. My Labyrinths I had planned on wer

calico20hill e not holding up and I needed this soft coral shade. It was the first year I had really grown from s
eed, thanks to Ted's "subtle" nudging.("You can't call yourself a dahlia grower unless you grow from seed!).

calico20hill

THis pic came out very poorly. Sorry. IT should be lighter against a darker backgound and more of s subtle peach and gold look with the light red violet reverse/.

calico20hill

calico20hill Also, picture autumn foliage in the park surrounding the setting for the wedding......

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