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Amazing! That looks like it! what's amazing is that I started it too late and it didn't bloom in time before our first frost, so I'll have to wait until next year to see it. The picture I bought from (a local grower who actually uses pics of his own flowers) shows more red and yellow, way less white, so I didn't even begin to recognize it.
Here is a link that might be useful: local pic of C.F.
Nice one Mytime.
As I remember, you have a green house - do you plant some of your tubers in pots and move them back to the green house to extend your season?
We have been known to have hard frosts by now, but I am hoping for another month of Dahlia blooms here. I have a few new plants that went in late and are just now budding up, so I am hopeful that I will get to see blooms from them before the season ends.
No, I don't. They're too large, and there is too much other stuff to do this time of year. And I don't heat the greenhouse in the fall, so although some years that would give another month, for others it might only be a week. I do have 3 that never made it out of their pots that I put in the greenhouse though. They got such a late start that it wasn't worth putting them out. I'm hoping they just last long enough to make a new tuber!
Thanks PT
It MUST be an old dahlia because a Google search turns up nothing for an Island Dawn nor do ANY of the vendors on the Colo. Big List have one.
I'm currently leaning toward Peaches n Cream because it has the white, yellow and peach coloring that matches Chihuly. From the photos I've seen on Google, it looks super tall and it seems to morph from all yellow to mostly peach, which that whole section seems to do (Sept. Morn anchors the left side with Patty Cake in front of it).
I probably will also plant a few glads of the same color scheme because they tend to grow 5-6 feet or more for me.
Thank you, but other than the fact that this year it was not sunny enough to keep them happy, and that we've never seen so many slugs, this is actually an excellent place for dahlias. I always start mine indoors to avoid young shoots from being eaten by slugs (although this year they even ate large shoots) and so that I get at least a full month of bloom before frost (but unless we get a late first frost that won't happen this year). Other than that, they're a relatively carefree plant here.
Looks like Canby Centennial.