General Dahlia Chat - 2025

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

Justafewdahlias whew! Much better thanks! 😅

KitCMC

Has anyone grown, or is familiar with, a BB/Miniature IC that is white tinged with lavender or a cool purple? Josudi Andromeda is close, but I’d love one that has the incurved characteristic.

Krista

KitCMC I grew Larrisa last year but never saw a bloom. She may fit the bill? ADS classifies her as 3410 BB IC LB LV2/WH2, but based on the photo in the database, I’m not sure this I what you’re looking for: https://www.dahlia.org/guide/images/LARRISA.jpg

Teddahlia

Taratahi Lilac is an oldie but goodie.

KitCMC

Thanks, Ted. She’s a beaut! That’s exactly what I was imagining.

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mary_on_flickr/

KitCMC

Krista pretty! Yes - I was imagining that shape & size would be a nice textural contrast in arrangements with balls or small IDs.

bloomhjelm

I packed up several bags of dahlias for the PSDA sale. I thought I followed all instructions: label tubers with name AND grower number, add note inside bag with name and grower number and quantity, fill out and email form with all names and descriptions and quantities and notes. However when I pulled up I had forgotten to also print the list to put in the donation pile. Oops. Too many directions. But I'm very happy this time of year has rolled around again.

Bessie

Just want to say... I read most every post, and really enjoy hearing everyone's growing techniques and stories 💚. Thank you all, and especially thank you to Amanda ( @blown_dry and @mr_blown_dry ) who put in so much energy to keep this forum running perfectly. Time is going so fast, and it's amazing to think that the forum is now going into it's 3rd year!

MissyWeitzel

Have any of you grown Gregory Stephen?

I took a picture of it at a show this summer and was going to try to order it. I only see it available at one place and the form looks the same but the coloring is way different. I'm curious how it appeared in your garden?

I realize the streaky coloring in the one I saw this summer is less desirable from an exhibition standpoint, but it's more beautiful than the mostly red version IMO.

(2nd Pic from Harvest Thyme website)

Krista

MissyWeitzel I haven’t grown this one but it looks like Swan Island provided the photo of it to the National Gardening Association’s plant database - I wonder if you could reach out to them with questions about it. Their photo looks kind of right in between both of the images you shared. Maybe if planted in hot, direct sun it fades to the bloom you prefer? 🤞🤷🏻‍♀️

Sharing the photo here:

blown_dry

MissyWeitzel What a gorgeous bloom. I would want it too! I suspect it fades in a very attractive way.

SteveM

MissyWeitzel There is a particular type of nice, clean red that fades rapidly and to an extreme in our high UV-index climate. The fade is so complete that it can resemble a bicolor with the demarcation and the bloom can be quite attractive. Gregory Stephan might be that particular "red"?

silvarerum

SteveM

So interesting to me. I have Allen's Starfire in yet another Cowlitz cart. The pic is red, but when you google it the flowers are a super beautiful faded salmon color.

katyaker

Teddahlia University of Portland is my alma mater also! Something else besides dahlias we have in common. Have you been on campus lately? After almost 40 years I hardly recognized it. There are so many new buildings. The son of one of my classmates is attending UoP now. Makes me feel old. It is exciting to hear they are doing research on dahlias there. Go Pilots!

Teddahlia

I have only been on the U of Portland campus for a few basketball games and last was about 5 years ago. When I attended in pre-historic times, there were still some buildings re-located from the flooded city of Vanport. They were WWII buildings and were very basic and could be compared to the "portable classrooms" seen at some schools. The library was the newest building and I used to do my homework there. There were Kwanzan cherry trees planted in front of the library and they bloomed like crazy in the Spring.

Teddahlia

The new Dahlias of Today arrived in the mail today. Margaret yanked it out of my hands and and went though the entire publication reading quotes out loud. She liked especially the quotes from the British writer who apparently really likes Hollyhill Letitia.

I must say that Dahlias of Today is a high quality publication and anyone who grows dahlias would enjoy reading it. And you can order prior issues if you really like it.
https://puget-sound-dahlia-association.myshopify.com/
I was paid $300.00 to write this ad for Dahlias of Today. Oops, that should have said I should charge them $300.00 but of course I am just joking but you will really enjoy this publication. Disclaimer: I wrote the article about the Portland trial garden.

MissyWeitzel

Teddahlia My copy is on order! I agree that it's an excellent publication. Loads of great and interesting information. Last winter I ordered every year that was still available. Do you know what year was the first edition?

bloomhjelm

MissyWeitzel I have heard it was 1981.

I loved going to the PSDA tuber packing party and being too shy to talk to ADS celebrities. Martin Kral, Dick Parshall, Linda DeRooy Holmes Cook, Christine Tareen among many others. Mr. Parshall cheered on a winning photo contest entry of a Clearview. I was sitting at the table packing tubers "A" through "C" and saw all of the ACs come in. I was delighted that I got to tell my table-mates what AC FBG stands for.

blown_dry

bloomhjelm I'll bite. What does FBG stand for?

Teddahlia

Do you know what year was the first edition? We have lots of old ones but they are put away somewhere in a box that is located in " that place where you think you will never forget, but you forgot." I bet it was about 1985 but that is just a guess. It was a publication of the "Federation" and they were emulating a similar publication done by the PNDC before them. The PNDC publications are the real collectors items. The Federation is/was a splinter group of the PNDC, sort of like an acrimonious divorce. The Puget Sound club does publishes it these days.

bloomhjelm

blown_dry AC Fat Bottom Girls.

blown_dry

bloomhjelm Hah! I'll plant it next to AC Big Johnson.

KitCMC

bloomhjelm this song is going to be in my head ALL day 🎶

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