Noni, your Clearview Peachy are much more “peachier†than mine! The warm weather has faded mine a bit, a lot more yellowing. Can't wait for cooler days!
Yes, we have been having an almost dependable "Marine Layer" sitting in until early afternoon and that helps colors a lot. Last year my Peachies had am almost gray over-tone but this year they don't,
sylviap Aug 16, 2019 4:28 PM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
Came home from vacation and found many new blooms in the garden:
AC JC - first year it's been planted in the sun and is doing so much better!
BQ Mike
LV Glow
Labyrinth
Show'N'Tell
drewtheflorist Aug 19, 2019 4:46 PM PDT
Name: Drew the Florist 14 miles S E of Pittsburgh
I'm liking AC JC too, first year growing it
teddahlia Aug 22, 2019 2:28 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Margaret picks her flowers for her arrangements on Thursday mornings. One of our constant squabbles is that she will pick several of my show flowers that I want to pick on Friday morning. This year I decided to accompany her as she picked and I would carry the bouquets of flowers to our hot water treatment area for her. It was going quite well and suddenly she reached up to my best show flower of a variety and snipped off the flower right in front of me. I couldn't believe it and she said yes that one would look good in her arrangement. I rescued the flower from her clutches and hopefully it will remain fresh for Saturday's judging.
Now that kind of makes me glad my husband is not very interested in my dahlias, Ted! We would have to have different gardens with a locked gate in between!
Drew and Sylvia, I am also growing AC JC for the first time and loving it Here it is a clean bright orange without the yellow showing....thanks to our overcast days.
melissamaeday Aug 22, 2019 8:38 PM PDT
Name: Melissa Omaha,NE
I hope it stays fresh through Saturday for you, Ted! My boyfriend always complains that I ruthlessly cut dahlias while they are still in their prime, and rescues them before I toss them in the compost bin. I will count my blessings!
drewtheflorist Aug 24, 2019 6:30 PM PDT
Name: Drew the Florist 14 miles S E of Pittsburgh
sylviap Aug 24, 2019 11:05 PM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
RC Diane is really pretty. What is the 5th flower - yellow with a little red picotee?
Is that Hart's Bonnie? It looks like mine except in our weather it only has the picotee, not the red blush as well. Hart's Bonnie is one everyone wants once they have seen it bloom..
drewtheflorist Aug 25, 2019 12:16 PM PDT
Name: Drew the Florist 14 miles S E of Pittsburgh
Hart's Bonnie it is...sorry about not naming it
no blush
I am happy! I finally found that I do have 2 HH Buttermilk and 1 MM buttercream! I would like to say I found them in the dairy section, but they were in the back rows where I stuck plants I thought were left over but I wanted to keep. There was also a Bloomquist Mary next to them and I have not seen any others blooming in the white row. I was so disorganized this year!
teddahlia Aug 28, 2019 1:44 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
MM Buttercream
Did I plant that or not, cannot remember.???
Buttermilk doing pretty well here.
Margaret always wants small and smaller flowers and hopefully of the same variety. This may be a new trait that I could extol to the cut flower buyers. For example, the new purple waterlily can have flowers that are almost 6 inches in diameter on the first flush but if you are careful not to disbud or deadhead(this is benign neglect) you can get little tiny waterlily flowers of about 2 inches in diameter. We have an orange cut flower seedling that is about 3.5 inches in diameter and it has some depth but does look a bit like a waterlily. However, when benign neglect is used, it has 2 inch orange waterlily flowers that match the purple ones. Yes, a sales point is that a plant is useful on it's first second and third(and later) flushes of flowers.
It is quite the opposite with some other seedlings. Some very attractive flowers that are really nice for arrangements do not have a lot of flowers. But the ones you get are A+++.
Maybe I will take some pictures when it is not 100 degrees out there.
I LOVE the idea of a 2" waterlily! Think of the adorable table decorations one could make!
Got feedback on my table arrangements for the annual historic steam ferry cruise around the Island. People loved them! There was a lot of conversation at the tables that was inspired by my bouquets! (This is a good thing).
I used many smaller flowers in jelly glasses to keep them low and not block vision. I probably used 3 small dahlias and lots of the miniature pom centered zinnias, white Sweet Sultan, some of the first shorter snap dragons,blue diascia a few crestd type calendulas for bright color, my first yellow staties or white ammobium (an airy white everlasting with tiny flowers). I only charged the museum $6 each for 20 of them but they were probably worth $25each. That was my contribution to the local museum..
melissamaeday Aug 31, 2019 6:28 PM PDT
Name: Melissa Omaha,NE
It has cooled down here, and the garden is popping! Still quite a few poking around and not blooming yet, though.
Steve O
Irish Blackhart
Sandia Comanche
Prairie Rose
Normandy Lisanne (love this one!)
Pink Ivanetti
blown_dry Aug 31, 2019 7:00 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Lovely! Prairie Rose is really different. Love Normandy Lisanne, added to my wishlist!
teddahlia Aug 31, 2019 8:53 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
It is not good that there are two sets of people who named their dahlias the prefix of Normandy. Bob and Delores Schwink lived near Normandy Park in the Normandy neighborhood of Seattle. They introduced dozens of really nice dahlias and Normandy Promise was one of our favorites. A British breeder is now using the moniker Normandy and I have noticed that most if not all are laciniated dahlias. Lisanne. is from the Schwinks.
melissamaeday Aug 31, 2019 9:23 PM PDT
Name: Melissa Omaha,NE
Amanda- Aw thanks! I think I stumbled upon your "lust list" on Pinterest, I may have wasted some paid corporate America time on viewing that and adding to my neverending lists. :)
Ted, you are like the dahlia Bible, and I LOVE IT! Is Normandy Wild Willie from the Schwinks or the British?
I am really pleased with my Bracken Palamino blooms this year. We had a ncie picking of them for Market this past weekend.
It has cooled down here, and the garden is popping! Still quite a few poking around and not blooming yet, though. 
