General Dahlia Chat 2024

Teddahlia it's great and it comes in really handy for other things too. I stopped at a farm this morning and picked up a half peck bag of apples and normally it would be a challenge getting them home without the apples rolling all over getting bruised, but I just put the tall pegs all around the bag and they stayed put.

MissyWeitzel Somebody had a good idea! Are those pegs the same size as 1/2" PVC pipe? That would ne nice, just in case you run out of pegs.

SteveM I didn't measure them but it definitely looks to be standard PVC pipe. They also sell bud vase clips and giant vase holders that can be ordered extra. It does look like they have a patent and the grid pieces are very sturdy and well-made. I think this company has been around for quite a while. I think a lot of professional florists use it in their delivery vehicles.

MissyWeitzel Oh that looks amazing! I’ve heard about this system. So glad you’re liking it!

MissyWeitzel BRILLIANT!!

I made an account with the local flower wholesaler and went shopping yesterday for the first time. I didn't even look at the flowers and spent over an hour checking out all the vases and other floral accessories. I was like a kid in the candy shop. Brought home a bunch of new vases I needed. I'm going to bring these to my mom later. She goes crazy for flowers and texts me pictures of them sitting in different places in their condo. It's cute.

MissyWeitzel that's so thoughtful of you to bring your mom flowers! What is the name of the dark colored Dahlia on the lower right in the bouquet?

Bessie Sandia Bertha!

MissyWeitzel thank you for the id.

Justafewdahlias it's actually Liz Evangelista, which is a yellow and orange variety, but right now, along with several other varieties, are coming in very light in color due to weather.

MissyWeitzel oh wow, I wouldn’t have guessed that! I realize my screen brightness was down super low and after adjusting it I do see the evidence of the yellow/orange blooms. All summer long I have been saying to myself “wow this dahlia is so colorful and vivid in person the pics online didn’t do it justice!” However I am sure my phone brightness was yet again down super low when I ordered everything this year haha

Is there a way to look up all the introductions a hybridizer has if they don't use a prefix or another easy identifier? I know I can look in my ADS classification handbook to find out who hybridized specific varieties, but I can't figure out a way to reverse that.
I have seen quite a bit of discussion here about Mike Iler's intros, but I would love a complete list. I have Fifi, Fiona, and Appaloosa, and they're among my top favorites so I would love to find stock of more of his!
Fifi pictured.

MissyWeitzel Sweet @MIDahlias texted me to remind me that I can log in to the members only page of the ADS website and use the expanded OCG to look up by hybridizer name! I'm going to post all of Iler's here shortly in case anyone else was curious.

MissyWeitzel
Kathy Iler gave a lot of the seedlings to Eugene (River's Dahlias). The last two seasons he's released some (but not in the ocg) Iler's Kimberly and Iler's Paula are two of them.

MIDahlias I noticed some were K. Iler but I didn't know the connection, so I specifically only selected ones that were from Iler, M. Thanks so much for your help!

Kathy Iler and Mike Iler had their own seedlings. She liked open center types and a lots of others that Mike did not like.

MissyWeitzel if you’re collecting Iler varieties, you can hit me up for an Aja tuber at our swap if you want. It was hard to find and has been fun. Likely the brightest dahlia in my garden! This photo is pretty accurate

(I mean, hopefully it’ll make a few tubers - this is my first year with it).