I grow this one every year...I'm with Margaret on this choice. And yes, definitely a blue toned lavender...
abecedarian Sep 6, 2018 6:49 AM PDT
Name: Pati KS
Was supposed to be AC Rows End. It is more purple than the picture is showing.
LinariaD Sep 9, 2018 1:07 AM PDT
Name: Lin Europe-Switzerland, z 7b
I have planted 4 HH Funhouse this year, and one turned out solid red, a very dark shade with a hint of blue, the pic doesn't do it justice.
Hopefully we will head to the garden later, I will take my proper camera and try again.
Oh, and that bouquet was mainly of reds and oranges, I gave it to a mom when picking up my son after a bithday party,
And she absolutely liked the colors and later sent me that nice pic, wirh the fancy lighting and all...
abecedarian Sep 9, 2018 7:26 AM PDT
Name: Pati KS
Well my not AC Rows End is mostly open and it's a full 6 inches. Any ideas of what it might be?
teddahlia Sep 9, 2018 11:40 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
HH Funhouse has sported to solid red in our garden too and I have marked the plants and they are staying red. I am going to sell the red version this coming year. It is one of the best large red flowers for bouquets and such and is really a nice shade of red. And it grows tall and makes lots of easy storing tubers.
Note: when a variegated flower sports to a solid color, the form of the flower changes slightly. This is because the cells get filled with more pigment and they are therefore a bit larger. Red Funhouse flowers are a bit deeper and fuller than Funhouse.
edewitt Sep 10, 2018 2:24 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
I never managed to get Diva to bloom at my place but the mother tuber that managed to survive the winter in a little pot sure likes my girlfriend's garden soil. JS Butterscotch is starting to open up. It looks to be pretty big but I took a macro of the opening petals.
teddahlia Sep 10, 2018 4:39 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
JS Butterscotch is one of the sports of Spartacus(actually sport of a sport). Diva is one of Swan Island Dahlias best sellers. My Hero at $39.95 will not have to be a volume seller for them to make some big bucks.
Finally found a bloom on Tahoma Stellar Feller! Oh my goodness, such delicate colors! I think I am going to love this. I hope it has time to make good tubers since it is so late coming on. It was late going in because it got left out of my order from Les and Viv and I had to wait 2 more months until we both made it to the same meeting to collect it from Viv. I may just pot the whole thing up and hope I can grow it as a pot tuber next spring. We will see when I dig it.
teddahlia Sep 10, 2018 5:43 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
5 years ago, this one would have been considered a blah color and not worth keeping. I will never get used to it.
Les and Viv Connell were at the show and here is the hot poop:
There will be a third generation Connell operating the farm and selling dahlia cut flowers and tubers. His son has been running it but his grandson(I did not get his name but I bet some dahlia is named after him) will be taking over. Right now this grandson is living in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands in the city. He has three kids and is crowded into an upstairs apartment in a run down building in a seedy part of the city. Apparently, he yearns to be home in the great state of Washington. His relatives will be building a new house and he will move into old house or some such arrangement. I congratulated Les that it is rare that family farms or businesses go past even one generation let alone three.
Les was aware of the recent surge in the cut flower business but he was not familiar with Floret Farms. He was busy entering numerous entries, pushing his walker around the show tables., He entered a very nice B sized SC ADS seedling in white that Margaret will want for sure.
Margaret is lusting after new white flowers and is going to try Allen Manuels, new white one and this white one from Les Connell. She wants to see a sea of white in our gardens next year. Has anyone tried Bloomquist Mary or Narrows Rider? We also have a nice white semi cactus seedling of our own to add to the white sea of dahlias and an incurved cactus and lots of white waterlilies.
Our version of an off white waterlily that we will grow lots next year. Second year and grows fairly tall at 5 feet.
Yes, Bloomquist Mary is very pretty! However it is more of a light Ivory and looks distinctly yellow when placed in a row of white dahlias. Since I needed some nice cream colors I like it very much. Narrows Ryder (not Rider) looks a lot like Stellar Fellar but was very slow to bloom and really stingy with the blossoms. I would go for Stellar Feller instead. I bought a lot of white ones this year...Allen's Snowy Woods is lovely. Allie White has been stingy, only one bloom so far that I have noticed. My most prolific white has been my own seedling, Salish Snow Day. Strangely enough it is starting to look ivory rather then stark white. Not sure if that is cooler temperatures or what. It sure turns out the blooms! I like Bride to Be a lot. Blizzard is a great stand by. Gitts Attention and Hollyhill Miss White turns up in a lot of my white bouquets.
Salish Snow Day.
teddahlia Sep 11, 2018 12:20 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I enjoy posting pictures of flowers that are nearly impossible to acquire but are worth all the effort to find. I have posted a picture of Seabeck's Hilda previously and we all were waiting for it's release that never came. The tubers do not keep. A triple entry was shown at the South Sound Show and it is as deep a blue purple as any I have ever seen.
honnat Sep 12, 2018 12:08 PM PDT
St. Paul, MN
Stop teasing us Ted... I would pay big bucks for that.
teddahlia Sep 12, 2018 3:43 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I do not believe this pair will compete with the old Wrigley's "Doublemint Twins". You know: double the pleasure, double the fun.
Perhaps this one could be considered a Halloween flower.
blown_dry Sep 12, 2018 4:08 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Very cute couple, Ted. Really big, full Shaggy Dogs are just magnificent imo. I have some about to open and even the buds are shaggy with the tiny petal tips already going every which way even when they are only visible a quarter of an inch.
DillyDahlia Sep 14, 2018 1:24 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
Mingus Toni
teddahlia Sep 14, 2018 4:32 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
As you may know from a post a year or two ago this one should be called Helen's Toni as she pulled it out of the scrap heap at his farm. .
Finally found a bloom on Tahoma Stellar Feller! Oh my goodness, such delicate colors! I think I am going to love this. I hope it has time to make good tubers since it is so late coming on. It was late going in because it got left out of my order from Les and Viv and I had to wait 2 more months until we both made it to the same meeting to collect it from Viv. I may just pot the whole thing up and hope I can grow it as a pot tuber next spring. We will see when I dig it.
Salish Snow Day. 
I have some about to open and even the buds are shaggy with the tiny petal tips already going every which way even when they are only visible a quarter of an inch.
