3,226 Garden Web Discussions | Dahlias

I like it...it would go great with my Myrtle's Folly (which I tried to take a pic of this morning, but it just fell apart due to the hard frosts of the last 2 days).

Say it isn't so mytime. Your growing season is over. Oh wow I still have a few to bloom yet. Well I hope you enjoy looking at pictures.

I love Island Dawn. It's a large waterlily form, very prolific bloomer, and it's pretty tall. Shades of peach and yellow. I've had it in my garden for at least 15 years.

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.

I lost about 20 dahlia tubers, because the slugs ate the shots before they had time to leaf. I have slug problems in thge past but not this bad. I will never start a tuber in the ground again.

You are such an enabler. I wasn't going to buy any more dahlias, but I think I just have to have Rawhide, along with a couple of others you've shown us.

This is the first time I have grown Raw Hide. It came in the cut flower collection from Swan Island. I have it in a big greacian urn. It is blooming like crazy. You have my endorsement on this one.

I think you have found it.

It's so perfect, it looks fake!

Our weather has been cooler than usual, and wet, too. Just not great weather for most of my plants. The dahlias should have been in full bloom weeks ago, and instead it's a pitiful bloom here and there, and many of the newer ones, not started in the house in the spring, will not bloom before frost. And they don't even look large enough to have made a new tuber. What has bloomed, the slugs have destroyed. Most of the leaves on the 2 I posted yesterday are destroyed, but the plants are so tall that the slugs didn't make it to the blossoms...yet.

I feel your pain. The tubers I planted in the pots out side got decimated by slugs. The ones I started in the house did way better. I was able to spray enough to keep the slugs from hurting established plants. They ate the new shots right to the grown and they never recovered.

You make such gorgeous combinations...I look forward to your new post each day.

I am glad ever one is enjoying this. My wife has a nice collection of baskets. She really gets to see them. So this way she will get to look at them on her computer. Also she gets to see the flowers she bought the tubers for.

Awesome, but I think I hear your wife...she's not happy!

I took this one out while she was a sleep. LOL