Teddahlia Every year, when we are digging the first year seedling clumps, we decide to keep "another one" . To be honest they seldom turn out to be much of anything. Here is one and I cannot read the scribbling on the tag in the back ground.
calico20hill Good point...Maybe I will make it a rule to print rather then use script. It looks like a day NOT to be working in the garden.
Bessie Teddahlia I've always thought the twirly petals were caused from thrip damage. Anyone else think the same? Also one crazy observation, a few years ago in rose blossoms, is that I think the earwigs were eating thrips.
blown_dry Bessie I don't think I have thrips, but I see curly petals on double varieties that are not successfully fully double. I don't think I've seen any centers tightly covered with rows of curly petals Or entire blooms made of curly petals. It would be interesting to know the mechanism. I just watched a presentation on 'rewilding' with native plants and they were surprisingly genial about earwigs. Not so much invasive slugs and snails.
Krista blown_dry I’ve been very relaxed about earwigs historically until this year. In our last garden I’d only catch one scampering around occasional, and I felt they could stay and keep the balance. This year in the new space I feel entirely differently due to sheer volume. They’ve turned me into an earwig demon hunter and they die on the spot! Apologies for my language to any tender souls reading.
calico20hill My duck buddies are really good at keeping the earwig population down. Of course that only works as high as ducks beaks can reach, but if they keep them down in the garden a lot fewer make it up the stem.
Justafewdahlias GalenaB Beautiful! And I love the use of thumb for scale 😂 I have used clippers for scale before, since in theory I could go back and measure my clippers to the point on the photo.
Justafewdahlias Bessie Some of my “reject seedlings” my MIL rescued and planted at her house last year. This year seeing them blooming at her house they are looking way better! I think it could be that they are in a better location and better soil at her house vs the part sun/sink pot situation they had to endure last year with me.
Justafewdahlias Changes from start of season (bottom) to now. Initially it had red halfway down the reverse of petal, now that’s barely noticeable. Front of petal was solid yellow. Center wasn’t good but the initial color pattern was interesting/fun to me
Juliarugula Justafewdahlias I love that dark Pom! Bummer about the yellow and red center - I really like that color pattern.
Teddahlia Hollyhill Art W. was introduced in about 2010. It's namesake told me it was shown to a higher award in a show this year. It also won a blue ribbon in another show. So, it should be in the classification book next year. It is one of those easy to grow flowers that has really bright colors although it is only 6 feet tall.
