2023 Tuber Trades

blown_dry · 2023-02-23T01:10:10+00:00

Someone expressed an interest in this and I know this was a thing back on the Cubits forum. Please feel free to discuss and/or eventually share lists. If peo...

Krista

Hello, would it be acceptable to offer tubers here that I ordered too many of? I'll wait until the tubers have been delivered and I have them in hand but this will mean they won't be coming from my own garden. I'll be happy to disclose the source for viz of course.

Dahlia53

AKWindWatcher Thank you! Yes! make lots of cuttings - let's get her back into circulation again! I can wait. 🙂 It's more important that growers get this one right now.

Krista

~~Hello! Is there anyone here who might be interested in Sugartown Sunrise? I bought way too many dahlias this year and I have two that need homes.~~

Emilyp

Krista Krista, I would love one, what is on your wishlist of trades?

calico20hill

That is a pretty one. ITs too bad my space is so limited. I grew that about 18 years ago.

Krista

Emilyp Hooray, I’ll follow up with a DM!

[edit] looks like maybe DMs are turned off - my garden space is full to the brim, would you be interested in just reimbursing? If not, I’d be happy to see what you have available and try to work out a trade!

calico20hill

I can't find which threat I was talking about my River's Order on yesterday and I was offered a cutting from River's Rosie.
Well, Apparently River's Rosie is coming to me from RIver's Dahlias today! Rosie asked me what was on my list that failed to go through and she apparently found a couple of them still available. I had told her I did not mind what the tuber looked like as long as it had a live sprout starting to happen! I am also getting River's Tangy Tart and River's Ruby so that just leaves the Chocolate one and And the Uncle Ted ones on my "Really WANT" list for this year.

Emilyp

That was me Noni, I am glad that you are getting your Rosie 🙂 Rivers is such a great place!

Teddahlia

Uncle Ted ( I am the Uncle Ted) has been slow to show an eye. It is a seedling of HH Renoir which in turn is a seedling of the famous dahlia from the 1960s Nagel's Solidite. It was a premier show (IC like Cotton Candy)flower with somewhat poor tubers. Eugene Kenyon wrote a note with the tuber saying that one of his favorites when he first started growing dahlias was HH Renoir. So he named one after me. Not some name like, Ted's Choice or Ted' Wonder or Ted's Best of All but Uncle Ted. I am still flattered. .

WanderingDahlias

calico20hill

Teddahlia I’m so glad you told this story. Rosie threw in an Uncle Ted as my freebie. Looking forward to growing it.

calico20hill

I wondered if by any chance you were the Uncle Ted?!. I loved HH Renoir back when I had it. Actually,I love all the incurved cactus ones but it was one of the first that I really loved.

Emilyp

Krista I just fixed the DM issue, so thank you! And, believe it or not, I just opened an order that I placed from The Flowering Farmhouse, and I found a Sugartown Sunrise. I completely forgot that I ordered it! I am one of those unfortunate people who let the boxes stack up and sit for a week before opening 🙃 I have a few more boxes to open, I wonder what other treasures I will find😆 I hope you find a home for the Sugartowns, sorry about the mix up!

Krista

Emilyp Oh I’m so glad to hear you were lookin’ out for yourself after all! All good, I’m sure I’ll find a home for these. Thanks for your interest!

calico20hill

I justt got all the tubers Erika sent me from Alaska potted up. What a treasure! Lots of new bouquet flowers to play with and should be a lot of nice pollen for the bees to spread around my garden! i wanted to try out what i think may hav e been the bee cross that created Salish Twilight Girl. Does anyone have an exta tuber of Clearview David?I now have Colorado Classic which is one potential pollen parent.

Bessie

calico20hill with your vast experience selling flowers, I'd love to hear you name the Dahlia varieties you consider are good for bouquets🙂.

Teddahlia

How could Colorado Classic make so many nice tubers and your seedling of it have issues with tubers? Perhaps a backcross to it to get those nicet tubers..

calico20hill

Twilight girl actually makes pretty good tubers but they are rather slow growing. It doesn't make loads of them but maybe 4 or 5? It just takes them a very long time to do it. She seems to take longer to grow her beautiful plant and get started on tuber making. I had not throught about this in regards to her parentage. And of course I don't really know who her parents were. Remember, she was from my first effort at saving seeds and planting them...the one you talked me into when I thought I did not have time to mess with that....and I am eternally grateful that you did! I don't even know for sure which plants I had collected seeds from because the point was just to do it and get started. To try it out and see if I got anything interesting. And here we are all those years later and l5 or 6 from that patch of seedlings! are still being grown and sold!

Teddahlia

When it comes to seeds, Margaret refused to plant some seeds we collected from something nice because we forgot to label it. Not knowing the parent of a nice seedling and you want to breed another one and you can only guess the parent is very frustrating. Or you want to cross your nice one and what would be compatible? Too much for her to handle.

calico20hill

I do label the seed parent now but so far have used only bee crossed ones. And I carefully label them, like "pocket seeds", (those found in a jeans pocket before throwing it in the laundry). You literally never know what you will find in those seeds!

KitCMC

If anybody has an extra Barbara B, I’d love to trade or purchase.

Teddahlia

In the naming of dahlias, the ultimate compliment is naming a variety after your spouse. Barbara B. is Paul Bloomquist's attempt to retain marital bliss. There is no Hollyhill Margaret or Hollyhill Theodore. Hollyhill Margarita was Margaret's choice of a name for her favorite flower that year.

KitCMC

This reminds me of Roger Paraon’s ‘Alison Louise’ and David Austin’s ‘Pat Austin’ - not to mention there are a number of dahlias with the name Ted 😉

Will there ever be a Hollyhill Margaret or Hollyhill Theodore?

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