CiCiVacation Wyn's Eeek! was a fun one to grow. I don't think it did well in the very dry/hot climate Boise has in the summer which seemed to make the blooms quite shallow. I'd love to get that back in the garden and see how well it does here in NM. The monsoon season mid-summer seems to really make a difference. Hopefully we'll have some more vendors offer it up next year and I'm quick enough to order it. 
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Darce which brings to mind the Guardian Garden Project of the Iris Society.
https://historiciris.org/wp-content/uploads/1-GG-Program-An-Introduction-2020-04-13.pdf
Oh guardian gardens for dahlias would be very interesting- it would have to be more of a guardian web of protectors because of storage issues - you wouldn’t want to have just one garden as a safeguard. It would be so helpful for cases like Wyn’s dahlias- so many great ones but only a few remain easily gettable in commerce. Obviously dahlia societies are doing this - helping keep rare varieties going -but it would be valuable perhaps to have it on a national scale?
Updating response: I probably should have included the top link. There is some interesting reading -- food for thought of what is being done in another community.
https://historiciris.org/guardian-gardens/
I find myself in the position of being a senior who is not as quick as she used to be. When a site doesn't let you see what they have before they open the gate for online sales, I don't stand a chance. Some make you delete the one they no longer have, others let you know it's not available and allow you to continue. Very stressful!
Great thread. I was mainly a lurker with a few posts in the cubits dahlia thread. So happy that we have new forum. i will be trying to post more and become a valuable contributor.
i really wanted to post on the cubits thread but cleaned my passwords on my computer and lost my cubits password. bummer for me.
Ted, love your dahlias. I did get lucky at the Crazy4 sale with one of your new waterlily varieties. But stayed away from the Hollyhill Letetia. i know they would go fast.
I don't have the intestinal fortitude for these cutthroat 'hard openings.' I went back onto the Meadowpoint site and ordered two more 'commoners ' - Ferncliff Tropics and Rip City.
Love the idea of gardens that would preserve rare or almost extinct varieties, and that the historic iris people let the irises that make it into their gardens stay, even if those varieties become common or popular again.
CiCiVacation I love your 'Bond' style garden, Live and Let Die! that gave me a good chuckle, it sounds very dangerous and exciting, and cutthroat.
edewitt your photo of Wyn's Eeek! is truly extraordinary, even with a shallow bloom. I hope you can find it again, I'd love to see a performance comparison from NM. The petals in your photo remind me of old-fashioned ribbon candy, very sweet.
@Teddahlia what is the correct spelling for your new beauty, I see that The American Dahlia Society spells it "Hollyhill Leticia" however Crazy4Dahlias spells it "Hollyhill Letitia"?
Krista I am curious also. Crazy 4 had it as Letitia and also the images were named Latitia.
I also practice a lot of 'live and let die' gardening. 
I was able to acquire and grow Wyn's Eeekk!! one year. I loved it! Au Beau Pre used to sell it, but they are not shipping to the US this year. I planted it in a pot so maybe I still have it.
edewitt Honestly, it was always a bit shallow for me, too, but the wild long petals masked that fact. For comparison's sake, here's Wyn's Eeek in my garden years ago... I took SO many picts of it that I feel a bit pathetic. Every year I tend to ignore all but a few stand-out varieties.
blown_dry Oh my, I hadn't noticed the third spelling from Crazy 4 - the plot thickens. I sure hope your Wyn's Eeekk!! makes it, I'd love to see how it does in your garden as well. And it's encouraging to hear it continues to live in some corners of the world.
Oh CiCiVacation, I would take many many photos of this outstanding specimen too, you're in good company. Interesting how much less variegation yours has in this photo. Very beautiful indeed.
CiCiVacation Ooooh!!! Thanks for sharing.
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Ha. Haven’t heard anyone talk about Wyns Eeek for ages. Probably since last time you did. I remember your Eeek stories.
I had Wyn's Eeek, but it did not make a good cut flower so I let it go. Sometimes I would take on to Market with me and just display it on the table to attract interest to my display of premade bouquets.
I was late to the Cowlitz opening. Then I didn't meet the order minimum, but I couldn't add to the count in my order because limit of 1. By the time I added stuff and checked out again, the stuff I really wanted was sold out. C'est la vie!
I was so close to getting Salish Twilight Girl but just barely missed it at Cowlitz River. I also realized she'd listed Rolf on there and I hastily added it before I checked out and on my invoice I see it was set for $0. 
I'll wait a bit before I email her asking what the actual cost is so I can pay her for it. That might be the nicest "uniform" variegated flower out there.
I had tubers in my cart and I was filling out the information, but removed everything when I saw the soonest I could get my order was end of April.
blown_dry C'est la vie!
I'm trying the new quote feature and I agree with Amanda.
Inspired by al the wyn’s eeek reminiscing I managed to snag 3 delightful weirdos - shaggy dog /kung foo kitty /and Hapet electra but wooo that was intense. Things kept selling out and disappearing from my cart as I was trying to check out. Very nerve wracking!
