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Bicolor dahlias generally have white tips on the petals. Another version of bicolor has white stripes that extends down the petals. When breeding dahlias, bicolors are not quite as common as other color schemes. My favorite bicolor dahlia is Rejman's Polish Kid. It has a very nice shade of pure red and nice white tips on a very well formed flower.
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I remember an old purple and white bicolour here. People used to complain of it showing more white every year. I have no idea what the mechanism for that would be.
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How about Sharky? I have 5 pictures of it, and none show it's wonderful roundness and get a good closeup of the bi colors. I am very partial to this one! Anyone have a better picture of Sharky?
I LOVE Peaches n Cream! , yes, the one in your picture. So far I have not had a big husky plant of it as it was late to sprout this last year. I hope this year it will take off and make many flowers for me. I hope you can get one too.
I have grown that one too and it is spectacular in the garden and can win in the shows too. It is unfortunate that it is a poor tuber maker/keeper. If it made lots of good tubers, it would be one of the more popular varieties. Another fantastic bicolor is Skipley Spot. When it is shown, it generally wins. It too, is notorious for poor tubers. I do not believe that there is a curse on poor tubers from bicolors as Sharky, Rejman's Polish Kid, Chimacum Luke all are excellent show flowers and garden flowers and make lots of tubers.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
Skipley Spot is a pretty enjoyable bloom, fortunately I managed to store my two tubers properly over this past winter so it will continue to be in my garden this year.
I have all but given up on bicolors. They just can't take the heat here. Some do OK but not what other areas get booms to look like. Most end up just one color.
We usually have a couple weeks straight of 95 to 105, depending on the year. Most of the summer is 90+. Dry though. We only get a total of about 12 inches of precipatation a year. Above 95 all the plants seem to go dormant. They quit growing and conserve energy. I shoot a sprinkler over the dahlias during the hottest part of the day to try and cool them down. It seems to help.
I ordered Summit Festival this year as we have heard that it is an almost waterlily and has an exotic look.
Speaking of tri colors there was/is a special class for them at the Lane County Show. They had a member who had developed Harlequin another tri color and he passed away. The class would bring out some very nice Harlequin flowers.
When the ADS switched to the 4 digit numbering system, they increased the color number possibilities to include things like black and tri color but have not yet included them. There are really not too many tri colors that have show form. Another one is Daffy by the Boleys and in fact they have some other ones too.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
Summit Festival is one of my special dahlias that makes me smile when I see it, It is such a pretty waterlily shape that I have floated it on my ornamental pond where it looks perfect :-). The color us usually much more defined with the Raspberry in a band between the orange and white.
I bought a Popcorn at the Portland Dahlia Society sale. It is a very bright bicolor in yellow and white. I see on the Big List that only Linda's Dahlias sells it any more. No pictures on the internet either. Great cut flower.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
