I especially like the one with the Hummingbird Moth - I don't think I've ever seen one of those.
mandolls Sep 3, 2015 4:29 AM PDT
Name: Geof WI
Good call Ted!
edewitt Sep 3, 2015 7:48 AM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
Grayval Shiraz, upclose and personal.
teddahlia Sep 3, 2015 7:51 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Nice picture of the Aussie cut flower. Cut flower people should know that this one is one of the best for cut flowers.
edewitt Sep 3, 2015 7:55 AM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
The plant is huge with a ton of blooms on their way.
DarcyD Sep 4, 2015 6:29 AM PDT
Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois
I'm liking my Grayval Shiraz...it's very, very prolific. With nicely formed blooms & keeps it's dark color in full sun for me. Compared with 3-4 similar this is my fav. Pretty pic!
Can't wait for my new camera to get here! I ordered the Olympus Tough 4 because I have really liked the photos I got from my "3" but the whole downloading thing is where I have had problems. Now they download by wi-fi so I will hopefully do better with that. It might be here as soon as Friday, and I can't wait to go take photos! The garden is getting quite colorful again after stripping it bare last Sunday morning!
edewitt Sep 11, 2015 8:42 AM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
Irish Embers
My frist decent looking River's Novelty bloom.
Verrone's Obsidian
Maisie Moonie
Dorothy R
DarcyD Sep 11, 2015 11:50 AM PDT
Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois
Very nice!
edewitt Sep 11, 2015 5:01 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
Thanks! My viewfinder is so tiny on my camera it's a bit of a crapshoot knowing if the point I want to focus in on is actually in focus sometimes.
teddahlia Sep 11, 2015 5:32 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I wish someone had a hive of bees in our neighborhood.
DarcyD Sep 14, 2015 5:57 AM PDT
Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois
Good one!
We have two hives of bees in our neighborhood...maybe even three. There is an apple orchard about half block away from us & they have a lot. My hubby really wants to start a hive too. I don't know that he'll ever have time to get to it, but I hope so.
teddahlia Sep 16, 2015 5:01 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
To me it looks like someone went wild with an airbrush. 2014 seedling.
I like it when it is a spray of little dots,rather then the big splatters of some like white rabbit. I had one a bit more like this from Tall Grass Farms...some name with "Polly' in the name....it didn't make much in the way of tubers and I lost it.
Hybridizers especially take note - he has a page on dahlias, but the page on Blanket Flower / Gaillardia is better. It shows in great detail what happens when the disc florets bloom. The petals of each floret are fused into a tube, and the pollen-producing anthers are on the inside of the tube. The pistil has bristles on its outside, which catch the pollen as they grow and emerge from the tube, so that they LOOK like stamens covered with pollen on the face of the flower. The real stamens & anthers stay down inside the tube, where we can't see them. After the pollen-covered pistil has been up for a day or two, the tip splits and the sticky, pollen-receptive surfaces of the stigma are exposed.
This explains why it is so hard to distinguish between the male and female parts of the floret. Even the part we see covered with pollen is the female part. We never see the male parts.
