Kevin, I had missed that! I just ordered and hope it isn't a mistake on the website! Thanks for alerting me to it and we will see. IT seems to be the only one listed as still being in stock.
AndreaB Feb 14, 2022 8:01 PM PDT
Name: Andrea SE Michigan
Me too! Bloomquist Blush is gorgeous.
Cosey Feb 15, 2022 6:32 AM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
teddahlia wrote:The late Bill Bonnywell of Snoho was good friends with the Skipley breeder Richard Williams.
What's the story about the dahlia name Skipley Snoho Bill? I thought I read somewhere that Richard Williams showed Sk. Snoho Bill against Bills own dahlias and won?
teddahlia Feb 15, 2022 9:24 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I believe Skipley Snoho Bill was just named after Bill Bonneyewell. He died in 2011 after struggling with ALS for several years. Snoho Bill was introduced in 2020.
teddahlia Mar 8, 2022 1:23 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Burning clippings and such on the site of our first year dahlia garden. Looks rather gothic to me.
Wow, it looks like you fired up the sunset from your bon fire! Cool shot! We have some bonfire stacks here but it hasn't dried out enough to burn them yet.
blown_dry Mar 8, 2022 3:46 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Very cool! I like both ends of the gothic-cheery spectrum.
Emilyp Mar 15, 2022 5:23 PM PDT
Name: Emily Zone 5
It is so quiet around here!
Here is Otto's Thrill. Poor thing just doesn't want to wake up this year, keeping my fingers crossed that she is just a sleeping beauty.
teddahlia Mar 15, 2022 6:14 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I did some research to try and find out the breeding of Otto's Thrill, 1956..
Breeder: Otto Aumiller who married Dorothy Caroline Miller and had 5 children. He passed away on 3 October 1967 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA.
Cosey Mar 15, 2022 6:29 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
You know how high fashion can be so ugly it's beautiful. This dahlias is following that trend.
Emilyp Mar 15, 2022 7:19 PM PDT
Name: Emily Zone 5
teddahlia wrote:I did some research to try and find out the breeding of Otto's Thrill, 1956..
Breeder: Otto Aumiller who married Dorothy Caroline Miller and had 5 children. He passed away on 3 October 1967 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA.
1956, wow! Well, I am still thrilled by Otto's work
I had this particular plant tested through the ADS, and it came back virus free. It doesn't seem likely that a strain can remain virus free for that long, does it? Do some of the companies in Europe do tissue culturing to ensure that their stock remains viable?
teddahlia Mar 15, 2022 7:23 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Give it a catchy name like Junkyard Dog. That name at Swan Island sells lots of tubers. Yours may be a bit prettier(or not!).
Knuckledragger?
teddahlia Mar 15, 2022 7:30 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Virus resistance is genetic trait. Some dahlias hardly ever get virus. Conversely, it is impossible to find healthy stock of some varieties. And they test for only 6 viruses and obviously there are thousands of viruses that could infect a dahlia.
blown_dry Mar 16, 2022 11:01 AM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Cosey wrote:
You know how high fashion can be so ugly it's beautiful. This dahlias is following that trend.
I love it! People keep trying to assign concrete value to something that is the expression of random neurons firing in random brains, but that's people. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder and exists nowhere else. It's true that agreeing with other people about what is beautiful causes you to "belong", which people tend to crave. Agreeing with dahlia judges about what is beautiful is the only way to win ribbons, which people tend to crave. But I probably can't be convinced that anyone's opinion about beauty is worth more than any other person's.
Beauty in terms of Dahlia Shows vs Beauty in terms of the flower grower...its like the difference between a beautiful metropolitan park and the beauty of an old growth forest on the Olympic Peninsula!
