Here are some of the entries blooming in the Canby Trial Garden. A couple so far look like matches for Noni's pictures from the Tacoma TG. #17
#19 a mini cactus or incurved in an exceptionally intense shade of salmon with yellow undertones. I wish more than the one plant had survived, but the other tubers rotted and no replacements were available.
#23 I think is at Tacoma too
#25 is starting to pull its form together and could be very nice.
PNWGal Jul 19, 2016 2:52 PM PDT
Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b
More from Canby #27
#28
#30 If you put the two together, you get one good flower! The color is deep and rich and velvety, and we should get complete flowers soon.
#32 is a very striking single with dark edges & backs. Good form too.
I think we have all of those same ones at the test garden. I saw two newly in bloom today that I totally fell for~ One I called "KA's Cloud Junior", I have to have! It is smaller then KA's Cloud but with the twisty petals in white tinged with pink, lavender and yellow. It is on a very nice healthy bush. The other one I fell for is, I think, an FD, smallish, in a fabulous muted coral tone..it would be really pretty with lavenders and purples. There were lots more in bloom today then last week. Some of the bigger ones are starting to bloom now. There were some other new ones in bloom too. I haven't figured out which ones are Ted's yet so I bet they aren't in bloom yet.
luvflowers Jul 19, 2016 6:52 PM PDT
#30 is a riot! Were there any complete blooms?
mandolls Jul 19, 2016 6:56 PM PDT
Name: Geof WI
That last one is one of the prettiest singles I have seen.
PNWGal Jul 19, 2016 7:02 PM PDT
Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b
Not yet on #30. Those were the first 2 blooms. Several of the others needed a bit of a warm up before producing proper flowers too.
PNWGal Jul 19, 2016 7:09 PM PDT
Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b
Islander wrote:Here are some of the earlier flowers at the Tacoma Test Garden this season
#2
#55
I hope these two show up at our garden. Lookit all the blooms on that anemone!
PNWGal Jul 19, 2016 7:12 PM PDT
Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b
sylviap wrote:While visiting a dahlia garden the other day, I saw a few I really liked but could not find names for, nor did any of the people working there have any answers.
Can anyone take a guess at these two:
#2
Thanks
No idea about the names on any of these, but I quite liked your #2. It looks like an old-fashioned rose.
PNWGal Jul 19, 2016 7:18 PM PDT
Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b
sylviap wrote:No heat there. We went over to Mendocino and walked though the botanical gardens. Mendocino is on the North Coast with foggy nights and mornings and daytime highs rarely higher than 75. We wore jackets the 3 days we were there while it was 100 at home only 200 miles away. It's so cool and misty there that fuchsias run wild in gardens. The garden in past years has been quite large, but naming has been hit or miss. Some have tags and some don't. Since all the signs says "Stay on the Grass" there is only so much looking under shrubs that I can get away with. Believe me, when nobody was about, I was poking in everything. I can't even match them with the pictures they have on their web page [Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.] The gardens are wonderful - almost 50 acres of plants along the headlands. There is one man who is in charge of the dahlias and it's not as organized as one would want, but the plants are beautiful.
#1 wasn't fully open; #2 I think was past fully opened.
Your first picture here looks like my favorite Raspberry Punch, in my avatar picture.
OK, Here were my top favorites new Blooms at the Test Garden today. (I am calling this one "KA's Cloud Jr" but have no idea if it is one of KA's...It was love at first sight for me! Cloud Jr has the most beautiful pristine foliage!
I will take 3 of each!
Yes, the orange WL is a big one. I would guess the other 2 are both B's but could be wrong. I will have to add the stake numbers next week...they are somewhere in the 40's...
honnat Jul 19, 2016 8:43 PM PDT
St. Paul, MN
That 3rd one is destined to be a really nice cut flower. Is it BB sized or larger?
Lets see what happens as the season warms up...literally! The bush is big and loaded with flowers. I will take a closer look next week.
anniecan Jul 21, 2016 8:37 AM PDT
Name: Annie Luck Apex, North Carolina BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN TH
You are right Noni, I LOVE it!
sylviap Jul 21, 2016 11:10 AM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
teddahlia wrote:The orange waterlily looks like it has weak stems and flowers down facing in picture. I bet neither of these things are true.
My Bloomquist Obeisance is blooming and all the flowers are facing down [the reason why no picture is posted.] I've never experienced this before. Is it a trait that happens sometimes? The blooms that have been open several days are starting to straighten out, but all the new buds are facing the earth!
#17
#19 a mini cactus or incurved in an exceptionally intense shade of salmon with yellow undertones. I wish more than the one plant had survived, but the other tubers rotted and no replacements were available.
#23 I think is at Tacoma too
#25 is starting to pull its form together and could be very nice.
#27
#28
#30 If you put the two together, you get one good flower! The color is deep and rich and velvety, and we should get complete flowers soon.
in my avatar picture.
(I am calling this one "KA's Cloud Jr" but have no idea if it is one of KA's...It was love at first sight for me! Cloud Jr has the most beautiful pristine foliage!
