2023 Orders & Openings Chat

blown_dry · 2023-02-04T23:16:17+00:00

I sent off an email order to DahliaLama. We'll see!

AndreaB

PegMc Yet another lovely release by River’s.
They’re making it so hard to play favorites. Lucky you, Peg!

edewitt

They were nice enough to give me River's Jedidiah which I cannot find a single photo of on the internet but is given the description of a white B-size, informal decorative.

I'm really looking forward to this particular release of theirs for next season River's Fancy St. Nick.

PegMc

edewitt Write and ask her (Rosie) for a photo. Initially I only had the name of the bonus, so I wrote to ask!

calico20hill

I made 2 orders to Rivers. Gee, I wonder if I will have something fun in either or both of them! That is exciting!

AKWindWatcher

calico20hill Now I'm curious myself! Will be fun to see if we all end up with different gifts in our respective boxes.

Flowernut

PegMc I can't wait to get my order from River's Dahlias! I requested delivery the first week in April. I have never ordered from them, but I couldn't resist when I saw all their beauties. 😍

PegMc

Flowernut Yes! I already grow their: River's EveryOne, River's Phoenix, River's Splash, River's Watermelon. All very nice. They'd sent River's Alex last year as a bonus - it's yellow, but pale enough to be quite pleasing and the blossom form is nice. This year's order is River's Rosie, River's Tipsy, WB's Bailey Dawn -- which I apparently fell quite in love with as I ended up ordering FIVE of them (two separate orders - forgot about that first order!) 😜 That 2nd order went in because I'd also wanted to nab River's Purple Pinwheel. Which I was able to nab. Unfortunately there were storage issues, and so I have no Purple Pinwheel 🙄

Flowernut

PegMc I look forward to your review of River's Rosie and WB's Bailey Dawn. I ordered the following from River's:
Bootsie, Deb's Fabulous Daydream, River's Cherry Bomb, River's Penelope, River's Rosie, River's Uncle Ted, WB's Bailey Dawn and WB's Molten Lava. I look for good cut flowers and colors that call my name.🙃 Good luck.

calico20hill

I made 2 orders to Rivers and am excited to see what bonuses they throw in. I don't remember what lI ordered but I know WB's Baily Dawn was one . Seems like I ordered several named after kids who were ill. First thing I am doing is writing the name on the tuber. I have had #91 kicking around my garden for 2 years without an ID that works for me. River's Spiky Norm looked so much like my Salish Wind I thought it was a slightly lighter shade of red purple but one of my S WInd seedlings. I would have been most embarrassed if I had named it as such and sold it. Organization is not my strong point!

edewitt

Got my Mountain Diva order today and they were nice enough to include an extra tuber of Holly Huston and Tartan in my order. I'm so looking forward to more Holly Huston blooms. My last plant was 7.5' and produced one glorious 12" bright red bloom. I also mistakenly bought Cynthia Huston at first because it's similar and I temporarily forgot the name until someone on here reminded me that it's "Holly" Huston.

HiDahlia

Papa Paul’s Dahlias is open. Missed out on Hollyhill Serenity (for the 100th time, lol) and Chimacum Pumpkin. Was having trouble on laptop so switched over to mobile and was a little more successful- picked up Seabeck’s Shirley, AC L, Glenbank Twinkle, Kenora Clyde, Nellie Rose, and a few others. Accidentally checked out as pick-up instead of shipping on one of two orders, hopefully I can change that after the fact.

Madelyn’s Floral has cuttings listed, they seem to be stocking them intermittently. I signed up for an alert for Fawn just to see, even though I can’t get cuttings here without extra paperwork. So pretty.

So fun to hear about everyone’s orders coming in. I haven’t opened my River’s order yet but am excited about that one!

PegMc

HiDahlia Interesting. I couldn't order anything @ Pappa Pauls because the cart was nowhere to be found, so not only couldn't I see the cart, there was no way to check out. I looked and looked, reloaded and reloaded!

Krista

HiDahlia
Darce

You both found some beeeauties today, and wow for $5, guiltless cart-filling if you ask me!

blown_dry

PegMc Probably the site was not working well with your browser. 🙁

AndreaB

PegMc Me too, Peg! I tried on my phone, tablet and desktop to no avail.
Ya win some, and ya lose some.

PegMc

blown_dry I'd sent him a quick note and he'd replied back that they were working with Square to fix -- so I wasn't the only one. After I'd written my reply above, I went back to check and there it was-- my CART! I had like 50 tubers in the cart I couldn't see before, lol, so that's how hard I'd tried to make it show up, teehee! Anyway, I was able to place a small order, so yea, "all good".

PegMc

AndreaB See above - go back and check - you may be able to check out now!

AndreaB

No such luck. They’re all sold out. Glad you were able to get something.
$5 tubers are a gift!

PegMc

AndreaB Awww, so sorry! Yes, for sure -- we all know how much work goes into the whole season and then all of the dividing and storing. He's amazing to do this for the community!

Darce

AndreaB

They are mostly sold out but there are some varieties left - maybe nothing that tickles your fancy tho
Embrace is very cute for instance

Darce

Ok I fell from grace AGAIN-but in my defense every dahlia at Papa Paul’s was only 5$ ea! I went into a bit of a fugue state😂 and came out the other side with a bunch of dahlias I was not familiar with
Has anyone grown:
Cabana Banana
AC Tara
Ludwig Helfert
AC Angry Bird
PPDF Salmon
Willie Willie

AndreaB

Darce AC Tara and Willie Willie were on my initial list, but didn’t make the cut once I whittled it down. I’ll probably kick myself later when you start posting pics 😉

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