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I think Bodacious is dramatic and impressive, so that would be my vote for either the single or the triple arrangement. Love the colors on Victoria Ann; that would be good too. Your Citron du Cap looks perfect (to me) so that would get my vote of confidence as well. You're going to have to see what looks best to YOU and go for it!
Tahiti Sunrise is a good choice for the cactus slot, especially if you have lots of plants to get matching blooms. Lovely colors. Good luck, Russ.
Russ- Of the first batch-- Bodacious & Snowbound look like they have the best form & color with Bride to be & China Doll in runner-up position.
In the second batch your Victoria Ann has the best form & a really good bloom position. A 45 degree angle is preferred on all but the giants & ball dahlias- they can be top sitters & not lose points.
Papengo is an old variety that is a nice garden flower but doesn't win a lot at shows any more since it's quite flat.
If you have an Elijah Mason with a good center it's a possible as long as the varigation is uniform.
Just try to get fully double blooms that haven't blown their centers & stand up & look at the judges.
Good luck!
Annabeth-- we entered a few. We won the Bob Simon Trophy for the best Bob Simon introduction in the show. He was our mentor & we learned a lot about hybridizing from him so we sponsored a trophy in his memory when he passed into that big dahlia garden in the sky. We've won it a lot - we still grow lots of his introductions because they're all AA or A sizes & we use them to create new dahlias. We also won lots of firsts & some Best of Types & Sections. We didn't enter many because I'm chair of Judges & Clerks for that show & it gets CRAZY the morning of the show & it's hard to enter & help people & answer questions, too. The very best part for us was seeing our daughter get her first ribbons in a show- she was soooo happy!
You can see us with our award & our daughter under the other posting I did a few days ago titled WCDS Show. Pictures.
I read this post entirely differently than you gentlemen. It sounds to me like donzi may be cutting a single stem/flower and hoping it will root. I don't know an answer, but basic propagation info and photos are found at the link.
See the links at "Decision Time".
Here is a link that might be useful: propagating dahlias
I was useing pickle jars for vases to give away bouquets. But I started liking my flowers to much to have my neighbors displaying them in pickle jars. So I went to the dollar store and bought a dozen vases. The neighbors are good at returning them for refills. I told the girl next door if I run out of vases I will be back to pickle jars.
The dahlia loses the color genes in part or all of the bloom. There's a big longwinded explaination for this but that's what it all boils down to. The bi-colors & varigateds all originated from a couple of solid ancesters somewhere back in time & they spend a lot of years trying to revert to their original colors. That's why we don't want to get any varigated or bi genes in our breeding stock- they're really unstable.
Taiheijo is the varigated one, Purple Taiheijo is the parent that it came from. Speckled Taiheijo is just another way to try to sell Taiheijo.
Russ- that can't be Snowbound. Snowbound is an ID- like yours. It's also not Iceberg-- that one's ID, too. The one bluelytes posted is a FD - & a nice FD at that- notice the smooth, round, broad petals then look at the wavy, almost semi-cactus petals on the other 2. It looks a lot like White Alvas or White Perfection.
bluelytes, what size is it?
Hey Viking!
Yes, the height is good. I think Russ is asking you to prop your iris leaves up a little straighter so they don't look slightly intoxicated (lol). But no matter, now you've got the height, try a hosta leaf or two.
Congrats for your efforts.
My absolute best to you and the viking gal wife,
Lucinda
Check out all my pictures. The wife ordered lavenders and purples almost exclusivly this year. Hope to see many pictures from you next year. If you want I will post the web site to my photo bucket pictures and you can go nuts with all my shots this year. Most of the shots have been posted here and in the gallery so that may be easyer for you.
Thanks elp 92. The flower does better with a half day direct sun. I have another plant on the other side of the tent that gets a lot more sun. The color fades a lot. Now that the sun is going down early the pink is comming out in the other plant.
The better the tuber production, the more chance of not losing all of it in storage-- & the more tubers to trade or sell at tuber sales or markets in the spring. Also- if you're selling them as a business it's way easier to ship tubers than rooted cutings & all that entails with soil attached.
nice flowers;less nice arrangement.
Oh no my I used the wrong material. I will try and do better.