Emilyp 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.
Juliarugula 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.
Krista Juliarugula Good grief, these are exquisite blooms and photos! Wow to HH Snowfire, and your pic has me pretty excited to see if Seabeck’s Shirley’ll bloom for me this year. I can’t wait to see some neon yellow/orange! Thank you for these luscious bloom photos today 💞
Teddahlia Snowfire was originally a tricolor but varied a lot and some were bicolor. We kept only the bicolor and it has pretty much been bicolor.
Juliarugula Teddahlia here’s a photo from the first year I grew HH Snowfire. I’m kind of hoping for some more of the variegated ones also. I loved the variety of patterning I got that year. Lots of white blooms with streaks in addition to the yellow variegated.
Teddahlia Love your Snowfire and I personally like having several versions of it around. However, we have just the bicolor version right now.
calico20hill Your maybe Hart's Bonny looks like the Hart's Bonny I grew a number of years ago, at least as far as my memory of it goes.... Nice!
Juliarugula calico20hill well, it was purchased as “AC HB”, which I think is correct. I’m more wondering if it was named “HB” after “Hart’s Bonnie”, either because it looks like it or because maybe it has Hart’s Bonnie as a parent?
magucci Teddahlia That color is so rich. It's my favorite. I'm laughing because I think I have three tops the exact same color. Well done.
Veryzer Juliarugula I just got my first bloom from HH Cheers. Definitely different looking. This one reminds me a bit of Pam Howden, but looks more vigorous.
Teddahlia In our garden, HH Cheers impressed us with it's large cupped petals. Margaret hand crossed it with HH Daydream and got a few seeds. I did more record keeping on seeds last year and it is nice to know what varieties make more seeds that others. This is especially useful for hand crossing where even the best seed makers make far fewer seeds. I actually counted the totals from the seed envelopes last year and even if I do not do it every year, it is useful information. I went looking for some "baby" pictures of HH Cheers and quit when I looked at the picture below. It is a picture of a very nice waterlily seedling from 2022 and I have no idea what one it is. Probably it was "one year wonder" .
Teddahlia Ken Greenway likes to name flowers using people names. We have found that some people really appreciate having a flower named after them. I personally am not all that excited about doing it as many of the names just do not flatter the beautiful flower. I hope Margaret does not name one after her ex sister in law's brother named Bubba! Last we heard Bubba was living in Las Vegas where it suited his lifestyle.
Juliarugula Teddahlia I personally am not all that excited about doing it as many of the names just do not flatter the beautiful flower. Ok, but I would totally buy Hollyhill Bubba just for the name.
Dahlia53 SteveM .Sophie' is a gorgeous coral! I'm in love. Nice one on that seedling! beautiful form, too. If you ever sell this one, I'm interested!
