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My wife Margaret loves our HH Donnatella as it makes lots of flowers and lots of tubers too. My largest order of one variety this year was a large grower that ordered 10 tubers of it. That pretty much depleted all of our tubers for the year.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
Hollyhilll Augustina is quite a bit larger than Donnatella and does not grow as vigorously. We no longer grow Augustina as our stock went bad. When you have good stock it is a real beauty. Dungeness is our other incurve that is exotic but it too is a bit big for a cut flower although I like the 6 foot plants and exotic flower. We have a very nice one that we will probably release next year and it looks like Donnatella but a half an inch larger and more of a birdnest formation and it has no name yet.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
Donnatella seems the perfect size for a cut variety and it takes cuttings very easily. I really like the IC form, I hope the florists will grow to like it.
So glad others love this form of dahlia! I'm adding an old variety I used to grow that, if i knew then what I know now, I would have tried to keep that tuber stock strong and alive by making cuttings. Its name was Jane, and it was the loveliest most unusual purply pink - a very favorite and i have not seen it in years and years. Love the IC form. It also cut well and was one of the longest-lived in the vase too. It was incurved and it also had that special swirly quality I love.
teddahlia wrote:My wife Margaret loves our HH Donnatella as it makes lots of flowers and lots of tubers too. My largest order of one variety this year was a large grower that ordered 10 tubers of it. That pretty much depleted all of our tubers for the year.
I was lucky to get a tuber of Hollyhill Donnatella to grow in 2022. It was easily one of the most vigorous growers I had. Very similar to Clearview Jonas, which was growing nearby. A beautiful flower and strong plant. I was so impressed by the tuber clump, and the fact the gophers didn't get at it, I took a photo.
Hollyhill Donnatella
Hollyhill Donnatella 1 year old tuber clump
No seed is too small, or spore that's like dust, that I am not afraid to grow.
Be sure save the stock of Donnatella. We will not be selling it next year(or this year) as we oversold the year before. When something makes lots of good tubers you assume you can sell more and just plant a couple and you will be fine. Things happen and you should always have at least 5 or 6 plants of something, not 1 or 2.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
