2024 - Dahlia Blooms

SteveM · 2024-03-18T01:41:40+00:00

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...

bloomhjelm

Just a bumble hanging on to dahlia giant Celeste. I wish I could take better macro shots but probably need a DSLR.

blown_dry

bloomhjelm I love Celeste! Thanks for sharing.

Teddahlia

Love your picture.
Macro photography is a skill set few people have. Special equipment required. Not for me. They often take multiple pictures and combine them into one to get good depth of focus. Cell phones are good enough for me. but I really need to hold it very still.

MissyWeitzel

magucci I love that one too!

MIDahlias

Juliarugula
My AC Jeremy bloomed this week. I love it. One of my top five for 2024.

Juliarugula

MIDahlias it’s so cool!

KitCMC

DarcyD dreamy!

bloomhjelm

I feel so silly. I had been photographing a particular dahlia in my garden and labeling the photos as "Crazy 4 Sophie," but on breaking down that bed, discovered it was Sophie's neighbor.

I love it, but has no label in the ground, and is on my planting plan spreadsheet as "Camano Pet." This would typically mean it was shoved in the hole when my original plant failed. However I don't even have a record of buying another pink fimbriated dahlia.

NCDahlia

Only one that maybe looks like the white is " Jennie " which looks a bit like it

bloomhjelm

NCDahlia I have Jennie, and its florets are narrower and it doesn't go as full pink as the mystery dahlia. Google lens says it is similar to Cabrillo, Millennium, and Aitara Picardy. None of which I ordered. 🙂 for now am happy to keep it as a personal garden variety.

MIDahlias

My flower photography skills are subpar. I also need to reference my ADS color guide.
Carmela Staas is classified as A ID PR.
In my garden I couldn't understand purple, because its red... red red. I know have three blooms in a vase and it's they all are a deep shade of pink. A shade of lipstick I would have worn in high school. But not purple.

Yellow: Baron Barb

blown_dry

MIDahlias I like it! Yes, I am resigned to never knowing for sure whether dahlias are red or purple/red until growing them myself. I want purple/red, but red/red seems to photograph that way sometimes.

MIDahlias

This year we grew a Midwest Garden at my mom's house. It only had dahlias from Midwest hybridizers.

Pictured: Valentine Lil

MIDahlias

blown_dry
My mom called it Cranberry. Its very pretty.

BackyardBouquets_17

Hollyhill Black Beauty signaling the end of summer. Time to dig up the dahlias and put them to bed for the next 7 months.

calico20hill

Brrrrr, Get that poor dahlia a nice warm coat!

Teddahlia

Hlollyhill Wedding Day got planted a bit late and there are lots of late blooms. We are keeping a seedling of it that grows about as tall and guess what?, it has white flowers too. Different form but same nice long heavy duty stems.
I will share picture during the depths of the winter when all we have is pictures and no flowers in the garden.

bloomhjelm

I am figuring out how to use camera zoom + camera macro on my phone. This one is my best so far I think! Look at his fuzzy bee hairs and pollen on his legs! He's resting on a very munched Luan.

The last AC Fernando of the season decided not to have white tips, and wanted white stripes instead.

Teddahlia

which brand of cell phone?

bloomhjelm

Teddahlia I have a Google Pixel 9. I am a loyalist who has only owned Android phones, this is my fifteenth or something. I love the cameras but you do have to fuss with settings.

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