AC Jeri blooming and it is about 11 inches in diameter without any disbudding. Swan Island is growing this one too. It is not a tall grower and may not reach 4 feet.
teddahlia Aug 16, 2018 6:47 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
First Shaggy Dog bloom. Huge one at about 11 inches in diameter because of those long skinny florets. People bug me to buy this one and I try not to grow much of it as it makes no seeds and usually grows into large plants with huge tubers that are hard for us old geezers to dig and divide.
blown_dry Aug 16, 2018 7:24 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Ooh! Love Shaggy Dog. Mine tend to be late. I don't think they're near blooming. I've got two plants this year.
melissamaeday Aug 16, 2018 7:28 PM PDT
Name: Melissa Omaha,NE
Hollyhill Icarus is blooming here. I know it's a tall one, but it's already about 6 ft tall and it is only mid August. May have to get the ladder out soon...
Melissa, it makes me happy to see Icarus doing this for you. I loved it and lost it. Loved its golden splendor!
blown_dry Aug 17, 2018 12:36 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
It's been overcast for days! Upside: the dahlias are very intensely colored. I feel like I post pics of the same dahlias every year. Sorry!
Hollyhill Margarita, Connie Thompson, Normandy Orange Fluff
Hollyhill Masquerade, Go American, Hollyhill Margarita
Blown Dry and also my blinding new desktop background, Holland Festival, Wyn's King Salmon
Penhill Watermelon
teddahlia Aug 17, 2018 1:43 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Nice pictures. It looks to be a good year for Margarita for you and me. My Masquerade is not yet blooming and I sold too many tubers and did not take many cuttings so I have just a few plants. Holland Festival can be a very nice bloom as you have proven.
I haven't seen HH Masquerade yet in my garden...I know I planted it out there...
Its been a busy morning in the garden with two major weddings coming for flowers today, a drop-in customer, and getting ready for market. I have had to figuratively slap everyone's hands to keep off HH Margarita...She is MINE to work with, LOL. Everyone was drawn to her as though she were a beacon shining out over the garden.
I could have sold peachy mini-balls or fd's 3 times over.
Yellow continues to be the least requested flower color in my garden...well, creamy yellows go OK but not anything bright. Its not me, its the customers. I am using HH Lemon CHiffon and MM Buttercream in the bouquets I make up for my market stall and bet that it will go better in the shadier environment inside. It will be interesting to see. My Ali Oops were mislabeled Hotshots so I am really short on red this year (And long on Hot oranges!). I think my "Assistant" at digging time must have slid all the labels to the next plant as I have only about one Grayval Shiraz and one Crazy-4-Ieashia where as I thought I planted out 3 of each and 4 Ali-Oop.Still waiting for HH Diablo but its coming...HH Rd RIck, HH Warlock and Judith Elizabeth are putting out some bigger sized reds.
edewitt Aug 19, 2018 2:57 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
It's kinda frustrating having something bloom that you weren't expecting. This was supposed to be Pam Howden but it clearly isn't. It's 5-6" in diameter and looks very similar to Peaches 'N' Cream but a bit larger which isn't a totally unimaginable leap since the garden we're growing these in is very very fertile soil-wise and she disbudded everything around this one.
DillyDahlia Aug 19, 2018 4:21 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
Eric, Could this be A La Mode?
drewtheflorist Aug 19, 2018 6:02 PM PDT
Name: Drew the Florist 14 miles S E of Pittsburgh
melissamaeday Aug 19, 2018 6:33 PM PDT
Name: Melissa Omaha,NE
Hmmm...Eric, it still may very well be Peaches N Cream. I have 3 plants of it growing and the petal formation and color is spot on, it was very large in July and is now getting smaller.
vikingcraftsman Aug 20, 2018 12:14 PM PDT
Karona Wildfire
blown_dry Aug 20, 2018 7:40 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Spoiled Rotten (fun!), Kilburn Glow (Knocks my socks off every time! Incredible saturated color.)
Summer Rain, Coral Shag Carpet (Lovely color!)
HH Masquerade (It's wild: the depths of the bloom are full-on black, perhaps due to the overcast weather and some smoke haze.), AC PAC
My Coral Shag Carpet is blooming too and so much better then last year! Last year the stem was weak but this year it is in a prime spot and happy as can be. I will have to check my charts to see why HH Masquerade hasn't showed up yet.
blown_dry Aug 20, 2018 8:25 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Thanks! The stems on my CSC are weak! But, I have in a shady-ish spot. Will have to upgrade its digs next season.
DillyDahlia Aug 27, 2018 6:05 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
Labyrinth
DillyDahlia Aug 27, 2018 6:08 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
AC Ben
blown_dry Aug 28, 2018 2:44 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Kenora Macop B. I didn't plant this here, but it was a nice surprise.
AC PAC is really nice this year.
Kenora Macop B likes to sprawl. This one traveled horizontally from the center of the bed.
teddahlia Aug 28, 2018 7:34 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Bewitched went half and half and the lighter half has the colors of Teresa Bergman's sport.
Unable to load pictures onto Cubits so here is link to a picture:
Karona Wildfire
