2025 Orders and Openings chat

Juliarugula · 2024-09-01T12:24:00+00:00

Does anybody have info on Ferncliff Gardens opening? Seems like they often open September 1, but I haven’t heard anything about an opening date yet this yea...

AKWindWatcher

Ferncliff opens in the Fall (they're open now) for items that aren't new releases. They don't do their new releases until later in the Winter after everything is dug and divided. That's also when they'll do a restock of items that were in the earlier opening.

DarcyD

AKWindWatcher Oh I didn’t know that. Good because I missed their fall opening.

Krista

AKWindWatcher They don't do their new releases until later in the Winter after everything is dug and divided.

I didn’t know either, thank you for this update!

bloomhjelm

I planned to be very wise and shop NO sales in the fall, and to make NO impulse buys. Then sellers had to sneak up on me with beautiful photos of things I never got last year. Oh I was also definitely not starting new fall cuttings from anyone else.

So from Kennedy Hill I got Eden Blush On and Hollyhill Bashful and Levi's Revenant (have to see what the fuss is about.) Oh a Facebook grower who takes email orders had AC Clouds and Rain, and Lakeview Kaboom. Then someone had some Ruskin Bride and I hadn't ever seen that. Then TGF had HH Mischief, FC Honeycomb and CV Ginger.

So yeah everything according to plan.

PS also Barry Davies eBay seller account mistakenly listed some tubers on eBay.co.uk with free international shipping, and I won an auction for Miss Coraline but they caught it and cancelled my order. Haha a girl can dream.

blown_dry

I got TGF Cotton Candy at TG 'store your own' sale. 🙂

Krista

blown_dry Ohhh so Glowy!

DarcyD

blown_dry Well isn't that fun!!!

blown_dry

Krista It's B-sized, glowy and a productive farm fave. I was sold. 🙂 My plan not to order anything new is not going so well.

Krista

blown_dry My plan not to order anything new is not going so well.

Same 🫠 If I can just purchase fewer than last year I’ll feel accomplished. Giving ourselves a huge margin will make success achievable in this lost cause. 😆

bloomhjelm

I added Sidehill Will to my grow list tonight, and it got me looking up just how many Sidehill dahlias I could find online. The ADS OCG and Dahlia Directory each had about two. Ended up being way more than I thought. Grateful to Rainfall Gardens in TN for bringing photos to Facebook. I understand Ray Phillips belongs to the Knoxville DS and a lot of these are also from a garden tour he did.

Sidehill Alma
Sidehill Bear
Sidehill Betty
Sidehill Bonnie
Sidehill Claypot
Sidehill Cyndi
Sidehill Fuzzy
Sidehill Greg
Sidehill Hunter
Sidehill Icarus
Sidehill Karen
Sidehill Laura K
Sidehill Marcie
Sidehill Norma
Sidehill Paulette
Sidehill Rose
Sidehill Stella
Sidehill Trishie
Sidehill Will

Teddahlia

Never heard of Sidehill. Who was the breeder and where?

bloomhjelm

Teddahlia Ray Phillips from Knoxville, TN. Sidehill Trishie is the only one of his I had heard from until a couple months ago. Then I noticed other Sidehills in online sales this fall. I got Sidehill Will from Black Penny Farms and another grower I trade with had Sidehill Claypot.

Teddahlia

I have heard the name Ray Phillips in the context of his showing abilities. Anybody who can grow dahlias in the fickle weather of Tennessee, has to be really accomplished.

bloomhjelm

FGL Dahlias catalog opened this morning. Some fun ones sold out already (no luck for you if you wanted Dutch Baby or Hollyhill Warlock). I'm so excited for the ones I ordered, though.

Teddahlia

I grew 6 plants of Hollyhill Warlock this year. Last year it was it's normal variegated color and very nice. This year they are all solid red. I gave one tuber of the variegated version to a club member and his was a wonderful variegated plant. ☹

bloomhjelm

Oh no! But that means you can get back variegated stock if you needed to. Not gone forever.

I also like the Quebec Dahlia Society gallery of dahlia photos, by the way. [https://www.sqdahlia.qc.ca/Photos.htm]

Ok back to digging.

Juliarugula

bloomhjelm what did you order? I only ordered HH Warlock, but they sure have an extensive catalog!

Juliarugula

Also, umm…. I might have been the person who purchased all 5 Hollyhill Warlock tubers from FGL. 🥴. I’m hoping at least one or two work out (since FGL has some pretty negative reviews).

Ted, if they work out I’ll send some your way next year.

bloomhjelm

Oh, gosh. I went ham. My tubers from FGL last year were so nice. I was only unhappy with one which ended up going open center on me, but the tubers themselves were great.

This year I got Fern Ridge Pride, Barbarry Forum, Sandia Echo, Penhill Nigel Thompson, Chi Chuckles, 20th Ave Queen, Ferncliff Prelude, Ferncliff Pink Phasia, a bunch of FGLs, Lucky Lola, Obo Dee, Obo Diane, Obo Dad, and Oreti Ella. I got Alpen Spence with the hope of sharing it with the dahlia society that is looking for all the Alpens.

Juliarugula

bloomhjelm that’s awesome! Were you the one who’s been looking for Fern Ridge Pride?

I’m so excited to hear your order from last year was nice! I was super nervous to order from them because of the reviews I read, but Hollyhill Warlock has been my white whale for a few years now so I decided to cross my fingers!

blown_dry

bloomhjelm My tubers from FGL last year were so nice.

That's awesome. I've been missing them. I think I may add them again, with a note to mind the reviews and leave a review if one gives them a try.

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