The first time I took photos I also photographed the numbered posts. I could look back and number them by that method. Where there is no number post I just assign a #. I might do that tomorrow when it is raining.
There are still quite a few more to bloom too, So if no one shows an interest in a picture we can leave it off and keep a scoreboard of our favorites.
CCvacation Jul 27, 2014 8:36 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Was at a judging clinic today, and walked Harry's garden. Not a lot of blooms yet (I didn't take many picts of what was there) but still fun to see the layout and support systems. The horizontal netting is for his seedlings only.
teddahlia Jul 28, 2014 8:38 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
For those of us with short term memory loss, what is Harry's last name?
CCvacation Jul 28, 2014 9:06 AM PDT
Name: CC PA
My apologies, by habit I omit identifying information on the web, but he would not mind.
Nordstrom. He is a true gentleman, very low-key, unpresumptuous elderly man that quietly mentors anyone that slows down enough to listen. He was a past president of our club, and has introduced Sister Ann (BB FD Y) that some Cubit folk might be growing courtesy of me or Drew. Perhaps Drew knows what else he might have introduced.
FLflowerboy Jul 29, 2014 2:08 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Thanks for sharing, CC! I appreciate AC AU this season. It has continued blooming, despite the heat and rain.
Ted, NTAC Mia Li has been tops for blooming this season. The flowers have become much smaller in the heat, but it has kept producing at an amazing rate! It is one of my wife's favorites.
luvflowers Jul 29, 2014 3:27 PM PDT
Thanks Noni for taking and posting all the amazing trial garden dahlia photos, looks like I should start saving money for next season's dahlias...
Thanks CC for pictures of the netting and dahlias.
CCvacation Jul 29, 2014 6:13 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Anyone notice the two fawns in front and momma in the back on the first image in Harry's garden?
DarcyD Jul 29, 2014 6:53 PM PDT
Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois
I didn't and I blew it up to look. Cute, hopefully they don't chomp on Dahlias!
luvflowers, Just start a list of the ones we show that you really like. Its a good way to check them out first. And yes, It is impossible not to buy some new ones each year. Hopefully I will not be sucked into so many new ones because I am liking most of the ones I have so far this year and don't think I will be giving up many of them. I bought so many new ones this year, that they should do me for a while. Then of course there are the new introductions! I'm going to have to arrange to wake up at midnight again when Hollyhills sales open! The one night of the year I don't mind if I can't sleep...who needs New Years. I prefer "New Dahlia Year".
Benny101 Jul 30, 2014 6:07 AM PDT
Greenville MI - zone 5b
We have to get up at 3am for that sale , I'll be there !
have to get what we want before Noni buys it all :-)
The secret brotherhood of Hollyhill Dahlia Growers....
drewtheflorist Jul 31, 2014 5:34 AM PDT
Name: Drew the Florist 14 miles S E of Pittsburgh
We should all fly out and sit on Ted's porch until 12:01 AM then ring the doorbell !
Benny101 Jul 31, 2014 6:02 AM PDT
Greenville MI - zone 5b
Hahahehe " Trick or Treat "
addicted Aug 1, 2014 3:30 PM PDT
Name: Em NY
CC -I saw the babies but totally missed Mama!
What did you learn at the clinic?
CCvacation Aug 1, 2014 4:19 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Hmm... I'd like to say a lot, but most of what they went over was straight from the manual and not really mind-shattering. I played with the color swatches while they read the rules of conduct, and quietly guessed at the official color of blooms on the table before cross referencing.
I'm going to try to visit Bob Romano's seedling patch before the shows and have him walk me through what he's looking for and why, as well as his competition plants. I'll get more from that visit then the clinic. I hope to do that with Stan V., in Youngstown Ohio, as well. Missed the Mahoning Valley picnic at his house due to sickness, but asked him to keep me apprised of club activities around judging.
There are a series of judging videos online for candidates on the ADS sites, which I'll watch at some point.
I am trying to post shots from Pt Defiance Test Gardens but my freaking computer is not saving them in the usual place. I had them all numbered to in accordance with their posts. I am so aggravated! I had about 200 shots saved out. if I can find them I will try to condense them down. Right now I am just upset with computers that change how they do things!
addicted Aug 2, 2014 1:01 PM PDT
Name: Em NY
Oh, Noni - how rude!
CC, I watched the first one and will watch the others before showing anything this season. Never hurts to know what is critical and what is not.
For those who are members, the judging videos are in the member section of the ADS website. Would be interested in what Bob and Stan have to say if you feel like sharing...
