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Let the fun begin! My first bloom of the 2024 season:
Bloom: 'Sophie F' (BB ID Pk) A 20 year-old seedling I still use for the Coral palette.
Vase: From my collection of antique, "Siesta Ware" vases.
2024 - Dahlia Blooms
I believe we are selling this 2021 seedling net year. It's temporary name is Hollyhill Coral Beauty. We are many weeks from planting anything into the ground.
SteveM Steve, that is SOME vase! I did not say what the some was, but it really is! Do you have a large collection of those?
it holds water and it works.
4 months later
Thanks to Marryn at https://thefarmhouseflowerfarm.com and Erika ( @AKWindWatcher ) for getting Montana Centennial to me. My father introduced this B (6") light blend in 1990.
SteveM I am growing it also. The colors in the photo are even prettier then what I got last year. It did make seeds and I have at least 3 seedlings growing. It is fun to have a piece of dahlia history to grow!
Encyclopedia of Dahlias by Bill McClaren is still available used on Ebay. It must be a good book as there is a picture of Hollyhill Electra in it. It is an excellent book and I learned a lot from it.
Teddahlia I received it for a gift this past Christmas!
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Hollyhill Serenity
Hollyhill Ambiance 2nd year of this one and it's chockful of pink blooms.
Myrtle's Brandy. I remember this being one of the first "must-haves" for me. I bought one from Clack's Dahlia Patch for 2010 but it didn't keep over the winter and the popularity must've waned so I didn't see it available to buy for quite awhile.
Hollyhill Starburst
Polka is a weirdo of a bloom but I do like it.
My waterlilies are doin their thing.
Sandia Bliss, Sandia Susan, Hollyhill Pandora, and Kelgai Ann. (Yellow in back is an almost-waterlily seedling that’s not amazing, but I may hang onto for another year)
Jennie in an arrangement with WB Bluebell and a seedling
I just love seeing your blooms already, @Juliarugula! Jennie looks beautiful in your arrangement, who’s the deeper purple bloom in the lower left of the first arrangement?
Krista That’s WB Bluebell. It was one I really liked last year, but it barely bloomed and was very late. I gave it a better spot this year and it’s been pumping out the flowers! So glad I gave her a second chance!
Juliarugula Thank you! She’s really sweet. I like those ruffly, pinstriped petals with twinkly, white tips!
Nice picture and pretty flowers!
This Hollyhill Serenity over-wintered in a raised bed in zone 5B, I must have missed a tuber last fall. Crazy since we had below 0 temps. The combo of being a sunny location with good drainage must have been enough, but I am still shocked as we didn't have much snow to insulate the soil. One other tuber (Just Lucas) that I must have left behind survived as well in a different raised bed. Very surprising, and very appreciated because I planted late and it will be awhile before I have any blooms from this year's tubers.
This is the third year I’ve grown Hollyhill Snowfire, but last year I only planted one plant and it got swallowed in the jungle and never bloomed. I’m so happy to have her back!
Bloomquist Wild is pretty brilliant!
This is my first year growing Seabeck’s Shirley and it’s sooo bright! Really, a neon yellow/orange combo.
AC HB. I wonder is HB is for “Hart’s Bonnie”? So far, all the blooms have been pretty clockfaced.
