3,226 Garden Web Discussions | Dahlias
I have done a little research and all of the named Caproz introductions are prefixed with the word CAPROZ. Armed with this information you can go to the address included below which will bring up a dahlia variety locator. You can then search the locator file to find commercial sources offering any of these Caproz varieties.
The locator file is still pretty much a 2006 sourcing file, but during the month of January it will be updated with 2007 information on an almost daily basis.
Don McAllister
Colorado Dahlia Society
www.dahlias.net
Here is a link that might be useful: The BigList Dahlia Locator
Hi Liza, We managed to stay warm and fed if not esthetically pleasing in appearance during the 5+ days without electricity. We lost 3-4 trees well away from the house or driveway, so no big deal. Next year's firewood. From the sounds of it, Mercer Island and Woodinville bore the brunt. (Christine R- are you back online yet?) I hear Vashon got hit pretty hard too and I'm glad you are relatively unscathed.
The tuber room was under careful scrutiny the first two nights without power: temps down to 26 here but the room remained at freezing or above. Believe me, I was ready to pack them all into our chilly basement, if needed; but they are fine. Not so my jam-packed chest freezer and second fridge full of food! What a hateful job to unload all the rotten stuff. I refuse to get a generator, preferring to rough it for the very few times we lose power for an extended period. (Ask me this again after I pack up the rotten fish, meat, poultry in the garage...) We refroze it to hopefully make it a more palatable task :(
Glad you're okay- just a little reminder from Mother Nature that we aren't as in control as we'd like to think.
Enjoy your holiday and the glistening lights, if you still have them!
The sale at American Meadows is an "advance" sale...it's 50% off right now, and as the time draws closer to spring - the savings progressively drop until they reach their regular prices. So, the earlier you place your order ~ the greater the discount. Also, you pay when you submit your order, which will ship in the spring at the appropriate time for planting in your zone.
Here is a link that might be useful: American Meadows Advance Spring Bulb Sale
This looks like it would work as a dahlia knife. I like a thin bladed fruit secateurs as my favorite tool to divide. While you're at the website, see the No Blot pencils adjacent to the knives.... Those would make great stocking stuffers for a dahlia divider.
Cut and paste this link to see model B3000-
http://www.barnel.com/fruit.html
Very similar to what I like, except a thumb latch vs the leather strap holding the shears closed, is preferable.
Just a thought. Tis the Season!
Here is a link that might be useful: dahlia tools
Karin,
One of the easiest ways to post photos is to use an online photo storage service. I like Photobucket. It's in English, but perhaps Germany offers a similar service. You upload your digital photos to a photo album you create, it automatically gives each photo a URL, and a TAG which are then easily copied/pasted to appear here as a photo.
But first, I am going to check your website and see if I can post one here. I hope that's okay. If I can, then you can too, directly from your website using just a little computer code. Below is the link to Photobucket. There is no cost to use it, a reasonable annual fee if you store a lot of photos.
Trying Toenchen's "Carolina Wagemans" from your website- seite 2.
It works! Such a beautiful color. Very nice!
To post your photos from your website:
Open two browsers; one window open to your Gardenweb post with the cursor set after this code *img src=
(Instead of the * type The other browser window is open to your individual photo you wish to post. Do one photo at a time.
Open the photo you want to post here. Right click on your photo, select PROPERTIES and your URL/address for that photo will appear in a gray box. Highlight and copy that entire URL.
Come back to the Gardenweb post, and PASTE your photo's URL/address right after the = Immediately after the URL/address, leaving no space, type >
Preview your post and the photo should appear. Then hit Submit. You can send multiple photos per post.
Trying another from your website: Engelhardt's Jubliaeum
Aha! Another dahlia beauty from your website. You have to have your photos uploaded to either your dahlia website, or a photo storage online o give it a URL, as far as I know. So the forumla is *img src=url-address of your jpg on a website; end with a > and begin with a I hope you can understand this! And I hope to see many more photos from you soon.
Poochella
Here is a link that might be useful: Photobucket
Next to the garage, it might be benefitting from radiated heat and could very well survive your winter. Don't know your locatation except zone 7. You could cut off the growth and protect the remaining stalk, if hollow, from moisture that might enter. Mulch over the area about 18 inches diameter x 6 inches deep with straw, compost, leaves, ferns- whatever you have to protect the tubers from excess cold and moisture.
If you do get deep prolonged freezing spells, you'd be better off digging up the clump (see any number of posts on digging and storing tubers) or read all about it at the link below.
Dahlias range from little shorties a 12-18 inches tall, to giants well over 6 ft. Many of mine here reach 5 ft even though the label says 4 ft tall. A couple topped 8 ft- (the overachievers.)
Here is a link that might be useful: Digging Dahlias
Thank you. I guess I just wasn't very used to a plant doing so well in the clay we have around here, especially a plant doing well in our yard. The other Dahlia I planted that survived only grew about 2 ft tall, guess I should move it over next to the garage!
Pat...Thank you for great information about Dahlia with your favorite grower and Colorado Dahlia Society. I cannot believe they grow so many thousands of Dahlias. How they can digging up so many thousands Dahlias for storage? I quess they have a great place for storage. I have been looking around my tiny house to find a good storage for dahilias. I do not have basement. I understand the storage temp. would be best between 35-50. My loft room may be good place for it, but it sometime went higher than 60's. I am tempted to buy Dahlias from Park's Seed Co. They are so beautiful and great for cutting too.
Jeannie...The American Dahlia Society is so awesome and very intersted to surfing with Dahlias grower collection their many pretty Dahlias. I have been trying to find Arkansas Dahlia Society, however it seem not have one in Arkansas. I found one nice webiste in Bristol, Indiana where my family lives in Indianapolis, IN. I like to stopped by to visiting their Dahlia garden. I have been trying to find some more information about how to cut Dahlias for selling? How long the Dahlia blooms last long?
Thank you very much!
Kat
Kat - The husband spends hours digging & storing the dahlias- & he does it all himself- all 6000+ of them- some would call that excessive perhaps, but it keeps him out of the house! They take up a surprisingly small amount of room the way he stores them- stacked in milk crates up to 6-7 high as of this week.
There are a few southern dahlia societies- one in Georgia & one in Tennessee- & there's the Carolinas Society, too. This is the site for the Georgia Society- the conditions would probably be closer to yours than in Indiana.
Here is a link that might be useful: Dahlia Society of Georgia
Abbie,
I'm in 7b and the Dahlia Society of GA (located mainly in Atlanta) has been very helpful.
As a newbie last spring, I went to their tuber auction and learned all about the best Dahlias for our humid weather and received information about how to grow and care for them. (7b is a zone that you can keep them in the ground covered with mulch. I'm trying that this year, and if doesn't work, I can always get more.)
So your local Dahlia Society will give you the best information for growing them in your area and, like Plantlady said, the Colorado site has a great list of suppliers.
Thanks,
Liz
Hi Abbie,
Liz has given good advice. The Dahlia Society of GA also has information on their webpage on which dahlias are successful/unsuccessful in the south.
Here is a link that might be useful: Dahlia Society of GA
I bet you made those people's days with your gift of flowers. Everything here is frozen solid except a few brave alyssum and lobelia still blooming in rail boxes on the front deck. How they can do it in this frigid cold blast, I'll never guess.
Dahlianut; I too live in No. Calif. Planted tubers early May, this is when our hot(HOT) weather started. They just started growing along in Sept., here it is Nov. and I'm just now getting blooms. My Mums did pretty much the same, except I did have good foliage as per schedule. If this weather pattern we've been having for the past 2 seasons continues, I think I'll have to re-think my planting schedules. But to what!?!
Calpat, thanks for your input. I think we both have become the victims of some sort of plant delay and nothing to do with our methods. I take such great care of my tubers that I was amazed at the delay in blooms this year. It is actually a relief to hear that you have had the same phenomenon. A relieved dahlianut. Thanks.
I've never grown them so I can't guarantee this is right but I think they're sold as a border dahlia- about 12-18" tall- which is shorter than the Bishop & I think I've heard that the blooms are smaller- very prolific in the blooming dept. Of course the height & bushiness will depend on your own garden & cultivation methods, too.
A couple of mine grew to about 3 1/2 ft tall. I didn't know they would be that tall so I had not staked them. I'll remember to do that next year.