Ted, maybe I could buy a cutting off you of HH Leda next year if she is in short supply?I'd even come pick it up...I was so disappointed when it didn't work out this year through Cowlitz River Dahlias...
teddahlia Aug 30, 2020 9:50 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
blown_dry Aug 30, 2020 12:58 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Thanks for adding this beauty to my day.
Cosey Sep 4, 2020 5:43 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
teddahlia Sep 4, 2020 6:04 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Novelty flower? Florets role the opposite way.
Cosey Sep 4, 2020 6:48 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
teddahlia wrote:Novelty flower? Florets role the opposite way.
My apologies, I meant to add- 'Tahomoa Stellar Fellar' to the photo. It's a slightly immature bloom. I had a photoshoot yesterday at the dahlia field and harvested a bunch for some mass bucket shots.
teddahlia Sep 21, 2020 9:45 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Margaret got the flower arranging bug and is entering the virtual show put on by our club. Here is a close up of the bottom of the design and later I will post the full picture.
Thatis a tantalizing photo...I can hardly wait to see the whole arrangement!
teddahlia Sep 21, 2020 10:08 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
You selected the perfect word for my devious behavior:
tantalize (v.)
"to tease or torment by presenting something desirable to the view, and frustrating expectation by keeping it out of reach," 1590s, with -ize + Latin Tantalus, from Greek Tantalos, name of a mythical king of Phrygia in Asia Minor, son of Zeus, father of Pelops and Niobe, famous for his riches, punished in the afterlife (for an offense variously given) by being made to stand in a river up to his chin, under BRANCHES LADEN WITH FRUIT, all of which withdrew from his reach whenever he tried to eat or drink. His story was known to Chaucer (c. 1369). Related: Tantalized; tantalizing; tantalizingly; tantalization.
teddahlia Sep 30, 2020 9:16 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Gathered more seeds and did more survey work. Here is a close up of a WL seedling that may get released this next year.
Cosey Oct 1, 2020 12:14 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Ted, Just take all my money. 🤑
teddahlia Oct 1, 2020 12:34 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
It is a really pretty waterlily type flower that is a deep lavender when first blooming and has a very slight bit of yellow in the center. Now in the latter part of the year it has become more of a purple and the yellow center is gone. All versions of the flower are really pretty. 5 feet tall too. I hate wimpy waterlilies. Margaret is close to naming it.
blown_dry Oct 1, 2020 4:20 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
That's really pretty!
Cosey Oct 1, 2020 7:10 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
I only had one waterlily seedling bloom this year. It was that coral one I shared recently. If the buds are lifting petals it will continue to bloom in a vase, but the flower is definitely more peach colored. But it has been consistent in color in the field.
Cosey Oct 14, 2020 5:00 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Some flowers just beg to be photographed. The lighting was perfect this morning. Ferncliff Copper seedling.
teddahlia Oct 14, 2020 5:17 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Nice close up and it looks a lot like F. Copper. Ferncliff Copper is an old reliable we used to grow 20 years ago. We visited the Ferncliff gardens about that time. Beautiful and now is mostly a sub division?
Cosey Oct 14, 2020 7:29 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Yes, it's very much a carbon copy color of the parent but with a smaller bloom and a massive 7' plant. Lol. I didn't harvest the blooms like I should have and it was on the shady side of the field. I'll plant it in more direct sun and do more harvesting next year.
teddahlia Oct 15, 2020 9:20 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I went back in our records to see if we used Ferncliff Copper as a seed parent. I did not find it listed.
However, I was reading some of the remarks about the quality of the seedlings and all I wrote for one was "Like Edna C." These days if I wrote that in my notes, we would be celebrating..
I had some really nice seedlings from Ferncliff Copper also. At least 2 of them will be keepers for me. One looks much like Cosey's seedling and another was a miniature yellow in a soft pretty color. I didn't have many seeds of Ferncliff COpper so I would like to try more of them. My Ferncliff Copper plant did not have many seed pods this year but it was rather crowded.
