This is the place to put those scrumptious images of other folk's gardens, whether it be a Trial, Show, or another grower's garden in 2017.
CCvacation Aug 3, 2017 6:56 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
PNWGal wrote:The first entries are blooming at the Canby Trial Garden. Lots more are about to pop! #28 was our first bloomer this year
#30
#17 #17
#15 #15
CCvacation Aug 3, 2017 7:14 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Islander wrote:CC, maybe you want to start one for test garden photos for this year?
Here is what I took at the Tacoma Test Garden yesterday
#58 #16 #16 b #28 #52 #23 #23-b #26 #25 #29
CCvacation Aug 3, 2017 7:14 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Islander wrote:Tacoma Test Garden continued #44...this picture does not do this one justice...it is the brightest pure orange and gold! Really a standout for color! #45 miniature #49
CCvacation Aug 3, 2017 7:15 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Islander wrote:Ooooppps, Missed #21! Here are several shots of it
The park department put up the signs..but they are only of paper...we wonder about that!
CCvacation Aug 3, 2017 7:32 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
Islander wrote:As I suspected, that # 23 AT THE TEST GARDEN that all liked...its the one that looks like my Evening Glow this week but a bit more color intense then Evening GLow I think. Mine is budded but not in bloom yet to compare.. I think Evening glow has stronger longer stems though...or did last year.
Islander wrote:Some other new blooms at the test garden this week #5 #51
A true "dinnerplate"///its about 10" across and not very thick at all. Colors are gorgeous though...just guessing, maybe Swan Island? Intnese purple but looks like maybe the curse of the purples? If I remember right there was only this one bloom on the 3 plants...or maybe there were fewer then 3 plants... #6, #9
sylviap Aug 3, 2017 8:46 PM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
I vote for 44!
FLflowerboy Aug 4, 2017 7:40 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
23 & 9 caught my eye!
CCvacation Aug 5, 2017 7:18 AM PDT
Name: CC PA
9 looks suspiciously like a Spangenberg Special.
addicted Aug 6, 2017 7:08 AM PDT
Name: Em NY
I vote for 44 too, Sylvia.
mandolls Aug 6, 2017 2:11 PM PDT
Name: Geof WI
I cant stop looking at #6
CCvacation Aug 6, 2017 7:13 PM PDT
Name: CC PA
So far, my favs are 52/58 (same pict, not sure of correct #), 23 and 49. The long stem on 49 looks sweeeeeet. Love the bright yellow inner, too. Look'n like I'm still stuck on cactus, for the most part.
vikingcraftsman Aug 9, 2017 4:37 PM PDT
From the Bayard Cutting Arboretum 2017
addicted Aug 14, 2017 7:45 PM PDT
Name: Em NY
It's a lovely garden, Viking. Do you belong to that society? I hope to show at both Long Island and Mid Island shows again this year.
I will have to miss the test garden this week. They changed the day on me because of a Dr Appt and I can't make it that day. There should be lots of changes by 2 weeks from now.
teddahlia Aug 15, 2017 1:46 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
We do not have many visitors to our gardens. We almost never put our garden on our club's garden tour.
Next week David Brown of the UK is visiting and the next day some dahlia people from Scandinavia. Are we on some "world tour?"
Very many people in our club have never been here. I should tell them to move out of the country and we will see about having them over.
It is fun talking to people who come through our garden in the park, but I bet you don't have the thefts going on that we do...nor the AA sized flowers used for basketball practice by ???
blown_dry Aug 15, 2017 5:42 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
One must have to have a resilient spirit to run a dahlia garden in an open park. Kudos to you.
My kids did like it when I cleaned up old blooms and they could play baseball with them. It makes the most gorgeous confetti.
Instant image in my mind of my kids playing with the "Snowballs" from the Snowball bush in spring....It must be a universal childhood trait to think "Ball game" when they see round flowers.
teddahlia Aug 16, 2017 6:00 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Visited Swan Island to see our trial garden. I have not been there since I was the one crawling on the ground planting it. Many excuses but I made it there today. I took numerous pictures and did some judging. Here is a picture of the largest flower there and it is 12 inches in diameter.
I will post more pictures later and am still going through them and labeling them.
I did talk to Nick Gitts and he brought out a bucket of flowers that will be in the next years trial garden. No pictures of those. The one that impressed me was a huge waterlily, about 7 inches in diameter with extremely large, cupped,rounded florets(translate that to indicate that it would be a show waterlily). It was a smoky pink that I would call a dusky pink and that would be popular for weddings and probably is one of the very many colors of Cafe' au Lait(recent picture on Facebook showed its numerous colors).
