Wow Noni - thats a lot of pics - and so many of them are really desirable. How great for you to be able to actually see how the plants grow and produce, and not just seeing a picture of the bloom.
I only have a single plant of the Wyn's New Pastel, but it is a big bruiser of a plant, so I am sure its making good tubers. And I will be happy to send one or two your way. Wyn's King Salmon is getting ready to bloom here for the first time too, which I am looking forward to.
sylviap Aug 17, 2016 6:38 AM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
#58!! Yum. So many great ones. Thanks for showing them.
Sylvia, I agree. I really like #58 also. It is tall, sturdy, and has that gorgeous in-curved bloom. I would say it is one i want to have in my garden next year.
mandolls Aug 17, 2016 8:05 AM PDT
Name: Geof WI
I was looking at that one too. Its very much like Skipley Bonanza, maybe a bit deeper and a bit redder. Is it as big as SB ?
sylviap Aug 17, 2016 9:02 AM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
In your picture, it looks like a great shade of red - what I would call fire engine red.
#47 reminds me of Crazy Legs a little, but the bloom looks larger.
#30 is also rally attractive. [must be going through a red phase]
#8 mystifies me a little -- is it full of bugs?
Lucky you to see all of these in person.\
This weekend is the California Dahlia Show in San Francisco. My hubby - wonderful spouse that he is - suggested we make a weekend of it so I'll get to see lots of great stuff!
Number 8 was the only flower on the set of 3 bushes at the time and the bees were all over it. I counted at least 4 in that photo. The flower itself is a good sized flower, maybe bigger then a bb.
blown_dry Aug 17, 2016 12:02 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
I like 15, 35 and 47, and 58 is lovely also.
Thanks for sharing!
teddahlia Aug 17, 2016 1:01 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
The sizes are not listed with the pictures and in person it can make a difference on what you think of a flower. For instance number 55 is "A" sized at about 9 inches in diameter and is very impressive.
Hi there,
finally my Dahlias took off, well most of them, and yeaaahhh,
HH Funhouse open its first bloom.
I saved the pic (which Ted kind of sneakily attached to an email when he sent me an helpful answer) of Funhouse and had it on my Ipad as wallpaper pic. It helped me through a wet, grey winter,
so glad that it grows now in my garden...
have a nice weekend, bye, Lin
Benny101 Aug 19, 2016 3:37 PM PDT
Greenville MI - zone 5b
Oh wow Lin !
I am excited to see HH Funhouse here soon . It may be open by now as I have not been over to the grow in two days so tomorrow morning should be a surprise to see who is blooming .
teddahlia Aug 19, 2016 4:14 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I picked several Funhouse for the funeral flowers today. You can get really long stems.
mandolls Aug 19, 2016 4:29 PM PDT
Name: Geof WI
I have been growing this as HH Tigress - but colors are more like funhouse - What do you think Ted?
LinariaD Aug 19, 2016 4:39 PM PDT
Name: Lin Europe-Switzerland, z 7b
I got hold of a HH Tigress as well,
Mine shows much more streaks,that can vary quite a bit
But
their red ( HH Tigress ) is more a burgundy, quite dark, with HH Funhouse it is a clear, dark red
Perhaps that helps, and I would say that Funhouse blooms are larger
teddahlia Aug 19, 2016 5:03 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Most variegated flowers seem to sport to different colors. Most often they go to a solid color. Less often they sport to lighter colors. Usually the sports are not very stable and the tubers will go back to the original. The cause is the unique genetics of variegated flowers. They are caused by transposons and by their very nature transposons are not very stable. They have been called "jumping genes" because they wander around the plants DNA turning on and off genes. In the variegated case, they turn off the anthocyanin pigment in an interesting pattern we call variegated. The gene can jump too far and turn off something else and the anthocyanin will be all over the floret, thus a solid colored flower. The variation above just seems to be the transposon being more active and letting less of the anthocynin pigment form and you see more of the yellow.
Funhouse is much larger than Tigress at about 8 or 9 inches in diameter. I bet that it is a pollen seedling of Tigress but I do not know for sure.
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I like the way you think
