3,226 Garden Web Discussions | Dahlias
Willow Wins!!, Willow Wins!!!. It IS a zinnia. And yes, I do know that this is the Dahlia forum. I spied this lovely from the other side of my veg garden and at first look wondered how a dahlia ended up with the zinnias. It would be a pretty Dahlia. And I'm going to save the seeds on this one. Thanks Poochella, thanks Willow for playing.
I would call it coral, coral or pink it's got great form and strong color. Very lovely dahlia!
I planted a couple of Hillcrest varieties but they fell to tuber rot,d.....mmm. Have to buy new ones next year and try again.
Nice camera, Poochella
What a great find for you and congrats on getting them to grow so well already.
I would treat the ones in the pots just like the tubers in the ground because they have been subject to all the nasty little bugs and fungi outdoors. I'd want to dig them, clean them, treat them and store them as usual in a non freezing area. You might be suprised to see that your growing tubers have time to produce some extras you can divide. That's only what I'd do, not what you should do.
You can leave them in pots if you want to. Then in spring take them out & see if they can be divided. This is sometimes a good way to over-winter the ones that you don't think have much chance of having made many tubers or the tubers are small- & it's easy to store them. People who grow from cuttings usually leave the tubers in the pot over the winter- just make sure it's neither too warm nor too cold where you store them. Also lay them on their side so that they drain well & don't rot in storage.
Poochella: I'll start bringing the acre vial by vial when I visit your lovely State in the Spring. Our "soil" is a sand dune !!!
Guess it is time to start up the trading process with you and Willow. Was Nicky K one of the rotters for you?
Glad you got a new camera, beautiful photos! Keep them coming.
Curly Cue is a real eye catcher and of course the white cactus is to drool for, It would look great in my white garden.LOL! Still waiting for Walter Hardisty to flower, this year's new white for me.
I hope with this drought that I have some tubers to trade, I'm sure the lack of water is going to effect down under. Keep your fingers crossed ladies!!
Again,Really nice flowers Poochella
Willow
Can I impress you with the other 4 words that I know In Finn ?
Good for you growing Dahlias in containers. I had to do this until this past year because of space restraints.. Where there is a will there is a way. Now I can grow as many as I want. Yippee !!!!
Granny, you know how you have that name thing going?
One of my pygmy goats is named Buddy. I have crossed my former "no red" barrier and red is quite welcome and nice nowdays. LOL
The real Buddy- helping me with Fall dahlia clean up, much to his glee. Frosty with mouth agape is simply celebrating fresh foliage to munch.
I call it Yellow FD! YelFD for short. Mine are starting to kick out their plentiful, reliable blooms right now. This is one I don't want to be without. Or one, without which I don't want to be; if that is more correct.
Granny, that center is warped. I didn't do it! This is the one that produce the "Don King Oddity" look last year on one blossom. The rest should be lovely medium yellow centered, balanced yellow FDs.
I've noticed slight variations in colour dependent upon where it's planted.
Mine like sun, but also relief from the hot afternoon sun. At least 6 hours is good. I also find that if they have to work a little to get more light, they will grow taller.
Thank you plant lady !! :)Your flowers are soooo beautiful ! I am so envious... however...I was wondering how a dahlia can look like the 9204 seedling green thang O_O...Pretty scary lol...
Another thing I'd like to touch on. I have been looking for this particular blue star dahlia. I love blue flowers especially this one but could not order it as I live in Finland and they don't ship it to me. I am hoping I find it from another website instead of Breck's.
The "Green Thang" was a scarey looking thing for sure but a lot of people loved it! Don't know if it did the same thing this year or not- will have to go out to the big garden & have a look. It was a dahlia that just gave us bracts & no petals-- maybe this year it's doing something different. If so I'll take another picture of it & put it in the album- unless Walt beat me to it & yanked it up & fed it to the cows!
Don't get your hopes up over any dahlia advertized as "Blue" anything. There aren't any blue genes in dahlias & since blue is a primary color & can't be mixed up from 2 or more other colors there won't ever be a truely blue dahlia.
I like to bunch them for show, but leave a good foot between. They will fill in and look even more massive. I 'm glad to hear you are sharing tubers. That way if something happens in the winter to one batch, there is another batch to fall back on. I usually make that a condition of a neighbourhood share.
Wow, alyrics you have the touch, or the luck of the IRish- something!
I was saddened to be watering the other day and find Jomanda, one I really wanted to see, lying inert on the ground, far from it's towering 5 foot former self. I restaked it, but many of the best stems were already crooked having aimed for the sun while sideways. I am hoping the new ones will behave and I've yelled at it to "straighten up!" The plant seems to be carrying on unphased by its little sidetrip, so I don't think anything was broken.
Well, I plunged part of the top of the stem into perlite and water and it doesn't seem entirely dead (I do that with pretty much everything that breaks off in the garden - sometimes things root and sometimes they don't). What was left in the pot is showing some regrowth, so at least the tuber will be alive for next year. But for our short season, I doubt there will be much hope for a bloom this year. On top of it all, it seems all my dahlias are "dallying" - few signs of blooms - and at this time of year when many other plants are looking tired and faded, the dahlias were supposed to kick in and exclaim "ta-da!! here we are to save the day!" Sigh...maybe by the end of September....
Anna
Do they have buds? How long have they been planted? The rule of thumb is 90 days from planting to flower time. Some varieties are very slow to form buds and bloom. I call them slackers. I say it out loud right in front of them. It doesn't rush them any, it just makes me feel better.
ah, that's good to know. maybe i'll leave it here with my mom instead of lugging it to arizona...where do you think it would be happiest?
i found it at a place called Deke's 7 Dees in portland, OR. must not have been very popular this year because they were all on clearance for a buck.
-ming
It would probably be happiest in OR. However, you might try it in AZ planted in a light-colored (for cooler roots) container on a lightly shaded patio. The foliage is quite attractive and the plant has a parsley/celery scent. Thanks for the info. on the source - I grow several "wild" species of Dahlia as part of my research in plant systematics.