Dahlia Photos: the sublime to the blurry forum: 2017 Dahlias Blooming
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| Share this year's blooms with us... be sure to identify what variety so we can start our personal 2018 Wish Lists! CC |
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Used the wrong lens, but here are some of the first: HH Tangerine - seems to become more orange as it ages  HH Exotica  L'ancresse  Verrone's Sandra J -begins orange but as it ages turns to a lovely salmon? apricot? Long-lasting. I really like this one. These blooms were produced during fairly cool weather. |
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| Beautiful! Trying to wrap my head around having blooms this early, must be a long season! |
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| Verrrone's Sandra J has so many upward facing ray florets that in the PNW when it rains onto a fully ripe Sandra J., the weight of the water snaps off the stem. If you go out and lift the broken flower after it happens, you can feel the weight of the water in the blossom. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. |
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| There are several more in bloom but the pictures were not worth posting. |
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| Well thanks for what you did post. My mouth is watering for some of my dahlias to bloom. It well be a late season for me this year. I relied on mother nature and she is cranky this year. |
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Wow Sylvia, those are lovely early blooms!  |
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| Great dahlias, Sylvia! Your VSJ is drool worthy! "What is a weed?" asked Peppa Pig. "A weed is a cheeky plant growing in the wrong place!" replied Grandpa Pig. |
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 AC Conan, Crazy Ivan, Snoho Doris  Crazy Ivan "What is a weed?" asked Peppa Pig. "A weed is a cheeky plant growing in the wrong place!" replied Grandpa Pig. |
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 Jomanda  Formby Crest  Tahoma Dark Delight "What is a weed?" asked Peppa Pig. "A weed is a cheeky plant growing in the wrong place!" replied Grandpa Pig. |
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 HH Rudolph  HH Spreckles  HH Tangerine (taller this year!) "What is a weed?" asked Peppa Pig. "A weed is a cheeky plant growing in the wrong place!" replied Grandpa Pig. |
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 Flip Flop  Crazy 4 Martha  AC Susi  Crazy 4 David (AC Susi taller pink behind) "What is a weed?" asked Peppa Pig. "A weed is a cheeky plant growing in the wrong place!" replied Grandpa Pig. |
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| Nice! And now I have the first dahlia on my 2018 list: Crazy Ivan |
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| wow - great to see so many! Thanks John & Sylvia! |
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Jon, your flower farm looks fantastic !  |
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Many new blooms. The heat is forcing them open very quickly. I feel like I'm pretty careful with my labeling, but a few of these are markedly different than the picture on the website. Hopefully cool weather will produce a truer color. Usually heat only affects the light blush colors. I've never noticed a strong orange turning to yellow. Bloomquist Carol  Frizzy Lizzy  Sellwood Glory - an unexpectedly generous bonus in a trade! So uncooperative! Facing its stake with two branches also in front. The heat has had no effect at all on this plant or the bloom.  Tahoma Flare  Tahoma Orange Slice I really thought BQ Carol, Tahoma Flare, and Tahoma Orange Slice would be a more vivid orange. I keep trying to get a decent picture of HH Sunny Boy, but like Sellwood's Glory, the bloom is in a difficult place. It is the brightest yellow in the yard and is very heat tolerant. |
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| Sellwood Glory is a classic dahlia. And it has the curse of the purple dahlia too. It was originated as a sport(About 1950) from a flower called Ballego's Glory(from the 1930s!) in PNWGal's neighborhood(well very close). Sellwood is a very old neighborhood in Portland where due to gentrification a nice 1200 square foot house built in the 1920s-1930s in average condition on a small city lot is about 500K. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. |
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teddahlia wrote:Sellwood Glory is a classic dahlia. And it has the curse of the purple dahlia too. It was originated as a sport(About 1950) from a flower called Ballego's Glory(from the 1930s!) in PNWGal's neighborhood(well very close). Sellwood is a very old neighborhood in Portland where due to gentrification a nice 1200 square foot house built in the 1920s-1930s in average condition on a small city lot is about 500K. So just slightly more than a Sellwood Glory tuber then, eh?  |
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| Maybe I can trade it for a house? I did not realize what a special treat it was until recently. Thanks, Drew! |
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