Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
I want to try Bo-de-o next year. As you know, Bo-Kay, Bo-Lei, and Bo-Joy all perform spectacularly here. Bo Joy is the tallest bloom in the garden...a sunny yellow LC that I have to stand on my tip toes to dead head.
vikingcraftsman Jul 24, 2016 6:02 AM PDT
mandolls Jul 24, 2016 7:45 AM PDT
Name: Geof WI
Nice Viking.
Can you all help me determine if this is Monet Glory? Its a lovely waterlily, but I don't see any traces of the peach blush.
This is a shot of a single plant, but I let it put out two stalks. Its short for my garden, under 4 ft.
teddahlia Jul 24, 2016 8:50 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I bet that it is Monet Glory. Teresa's picture that comes up first on Google images is what it looked like in my garden. Your flower has small amounts of the pigment that turns it more golden than yellow. It was a shame that Ken Stock who bred this flower lost his stock and did not grow it for the last years that he was able to grow dahlias.
I no longer have it but I think it started out that way in my garden and then the orange color filled in.
teddahlia Jul 24, 2016 9:17 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I do not know if I still have this one. I always sold a few more than I should have and eventually if you do that you may lose it. It is certainly one of the better WLs out there.
FLflowerboy Jul 24, 2016 9:58 AM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Can anyone help me identify this Noid? At first I thought it was Bargally Blush...but now it is taller than my labeled Bargally Blush plants and the blooms are flatter. It has been prolific...so I would love to identify it,
mandolls Jul 24, 2016 12:33 PM PDT
Name: Geof WI
It looks a bit like Scaur Swinton ?
Thanks for the feed-back on the Monet Glory - It is a beautiful color and form, just didn't want to pass it on as Monet Glory if its not.
I believe I got it from Drew.
addicted Jul 24, 2016 1:23 PM PDT
Name: Em NY
Geof, love your Monet Glory! Where has it been hiding and why haven't I noticed it before??? Will have to look for it at the shows this summer. Your photo really shows it off beautifully.
blown_dry Jul 24, 2016 2:36 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Below: Woodlands Wildthing (didn't know it was huge!), Kilburn Glow 0.0, Marvelous Mans
Below: Hollyhill Margarita, Radio Flyer Wagon (my grocery getter), Bloomquist Sunrays
Below: Bloomquist Sunrays, Cinder, Hollyhill Margarita
Below: AC Inara, Pee Gee
FLflowerboy Jul 24, 2016 2:36 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Geof, I think you are correct. I believe I have a sun-faded (FL version) Scaur Swinton. I found a somewhat faded bloom online that seems to match mine...
And the foliage on this next one seems to match my bug eaten FL plant's foliage...
Factor in a one hundred degree summer, and I think I have a match!
FLflowerboy Jul 24, 2016 2:41 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Amanda, outrageous colors and forms!!! Promise me a calendar from pics from your garden?!
A quick screenshot to drool over!!
blown_dry Jul 24, 2016 3:16 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Thanks, Jon! Lately I've been thinking of my gardening style as 'California Cottage' based on the feedback here. Now I think I will call it, 'Outrageous California Cottage'.
FLflowerboy Jul 24, 2016 3:26 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Love it!! Outrageous California Cottage! Welcoming plant combinations and vivid colors of a coastal garden.
(I think we could do a magazine article!)
Amanda, I love it too! It makes me want to go out and buy paint...for something? (The chicken house is about all you can see from the dahlia garden)...Maybe a nice wooden bench to sit on and admire my garden from on summer evenings...I will have to think about that.
sylviap Jul 24, 2016 5:26 PM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
What a beautiful scene! What is the dahlia in front of the radio flyer?
DahliaGardener Jul 24, 2016 6:53 PM PDT
Name: Cynthia BG, KY USDA Zone 6b Sanity = Dirt under your nails...
.......Not Exactly AC Shannon..............................HH Ripple............................Did not crawl under the sunflower to see....
And somehow, as much as I want it to be, I don't think this is Alfa Max. I guess I'll have to wait and see what successive blooms look like, but there's no orange at all in that. (...sigh...)
But they are blooming! And a young friend of ours said that we had the 'most professional looking garden ever'; we felt pretty good, even though she is 14 and so has not got much experience of 'professional' gardens.
Outrageous California Cottage! Welcoming plant combinations and vivid colors of a coastal garden.
