General Dahlia Chat - 2025

Juliarugula · 2025-01-01T13:30:33+00:00

Justafewdahlias whew! Much better thanks! 😅

calico20hill

Juliarugula

Both Hollyhill Honeygoldand Golden Glow were pretty tall for me - 6-7 feet. McKenzie Violet was super tall - maybe 8 feet? BQ York is about 8 feet too.

Veryzer

Juliarugula How was Honeygold with tuber production and storage?

Justafewdahlias

BackyardBouquets_17 Dahlias have great potential for a summertime screen/creating shade. I don’t personally know of any other plant that grows as tall and as full as quick as dahlias do. Of course vines grow fast but I don’t want to deal with trellises everywhere

Justafewdahlias

Teddahlia Wow, lots of great ideas for next year! And 10 feet tall must be a record!

Justafewdahlias

MIDahlias China doll, Mary Jo, and Matilda Hudson are advertised as being “low growing” and I would say they were definitely under 3 feet tall growing for me here in PNW. One year I decided to buy mostly low growing dahlias because I didn’t want to “deal with” staking them…..my how things have changed 😂

Justafewdahlias

SteveM This does look like a fun one to try!! Wow it says dying back to the ground and growing 20-30 feet! This could be a great summer screen or shade source without having to have a tree there all the time

SteveM

Justafewdahlias growing 20-30 feet!

Mine grew to 12-15 feet and, if I remember, they didn't do especially well in the wind. But they were interesting and worth trying.

Juliarugula

Veryzer my experience was very much as described by Ted. clumps were on the large side for me in our Midwest sandy loam.

Teddahlia

Honey Gold makes long tubers that store well. Usually long tubers are hard to dig without breaking necks(that ruins tubers) but Honey Gold can easily be harvested without issues. I hear reports that the clumps can be very large but not that big here. I planted a large undivided clump(I do that sometimes) the other day and usually those undivided clumps will have many more tubers.

Veryzer

Excellent! Thank you, both.

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