Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
Beautiful, LeeAnn! Where do I pre-order her?
Cosey Jun 2, 2022 3:25 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Islander wrote:Lovely! That does indeed look like a highly desireable dahlia! I'd love to see shots of it over the summer with changes in day time and night time temperatures.
As a flower arranger I would adore working with that one...all the shades of colors I see that could be matched or contrasted... or worked through in different levels of color.
teddahlia Jun 3, 2022 7:57 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Nice modern colors in this flower. Breeding for color is in a way more interesting than breeding for form.
DarcyD Jun 4, 2022 6:31 AM PDT
Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois
Love that one, LeeAnn!
AndreaB Jun 4, 2022 11:34 AM PDT
Name: Andrea SE Michigan
Pretty. It’s definitely a keeper.
MegMoon Jun 6, 2022 2:22 PM PDT
Name: Meg Alabama
Wow! That's a beauty!
Emilyp Jun 7, 2022 11:16 AM PDT
Name: Emily Zone 5
That is a gorgeous flower! Way to go LeeAnn!
teddahlia Aug 18, 2022 2:54 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
The seedlings are starting to bloom. This plant had three stalks coming up and one stalk with some flowers on it broke off. Margaret brought it into the kitchen and we took some pictures. She is especially fond of this one as it is a hand crossed seedling. I am posting in the picture section as it may not be a show type waterlily but seems to be photogenic. Lots more seedlings about to bloom.
At last! Looking forward to seeing lots more. I am glad to see that yours are reaching the fun stage!
teddahlia Aug 19, 2022 8:26 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Second year seedling that has interesting color patterns. I wish one would sport to all purple.
SteveM Aug 19, 2022 9:10 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
That is a great purple and the addition of variegation along with the colored ray florets is really unusual. HH Double Take has super vase life and the petals never shatter so I hope this shares some genetics with Double Take. I had plans to make a full row (100 plants) of Double Take for market this year. The gophers had other plans so now I am back down to just two mother plants. It was also a very good seed producer and the gophers also appreciated the Double Take first-year seedlings. What size is this?
AndreaB Aug 20, 2022 2:54 AM PDT
Name: Andrea SE Michigan
Reminds me of a purple and white Double Jill. People go nuts over that variety.
teddahlia Aug 20, 2022 8:06 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Half an inch bigger than Double Take at about 3.5 inches. Makes good tubers. Does not shatter. Margaret has said she sort of likes it and that is a huge endorsement.
edewitt Aug 21, 2022 4:19 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
I love all the Hollyhill variegated varieties, so many to choose from and they're all great. Beautiful chaos, which Hollyhill Spider Woman falls into the category of. I'm hoping at least one of the four tuber clumps isn't diseased but that's asking a lot ( at least for American Meadows).
teddahlia Aug 21, 2022 4:43 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Spiderwoman is hard to keep healthy and our stock went bad. It is not a seed maker(one seed seedling is all we ever got and it was trash).
SteveM Aug 21, 2022 5:34 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
H H Spiderwoman is one of my 5 personal favorite dahlias. I never could grow it very well but I saw a few blooms in shows that were stunning. Good luck with your stock Eric, I guess your old stock didn't survive the move from Idaho?
I have one that is doing nicely. We will see how it does by the end of the season. IT is in full bloom now. I think it came from Ted about 3 years ago.
edewitt Aug 21, 2022 9:37 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
SteveM wrote:H H Spiderwoman is one of my 5 personal favorite dahlias. I never could grow it very well but I saw a few blooms in shows that were stunning. Good luck with your stock Eric, I guess your old stock didn't survive the move from Idaho?
Two had crown gall when I dug them up and the other was a very puny clump that dried up shortly after being stored. A Dutch tuber reseller was the only place I could find tubers so I ordered them, they looked great, and then tossed after the deep freeze. I managed to get 5 clumps of HH SW from the three-pack I purchased. I'm hoping these won't end up with the same fate.
