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| No kidding, I couldn't even get ONE started, lol! Do you grow many of yours from seed, Annie? In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Too funny, Sheryl! If at first you don't succeed.... I've got some 'old reliables' I should send you next year. You almost can't fail, unless you let your horse walk on them! Nope, I grow from tubers or cuttings year after year: the only way to keep the variety consistent. Seeds are pretty much a genetic 'box of chocolates': you never know what you'll get. I've got seeds from another Cubiteer to try this year and have found them very easy: drop, pat, and run; water occasionally. |
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| Hmmm - maybe my seeds were too old.... they were 'Bishop's Children' seeds that I got in a swap. Are any of your fellow dahlia lovers this far south? I've heard our heat + humidity can make it very tough on some types. Maybe you could recommend some that idiot proof? In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| DON'T DO IT SHERYL! DON'T START, YOU'LL NEVER GO BACK!!!! Haha-kidding, of course. But really, you won't go back. Yep, they grow this far South. I'm Zone 10 and mine struggle through. Your zone would be perfect. Here's some recommended varieties http://www.oldhousegardens.com/Dahlias-For-The-South.asp Take the leap, you won't regret it.
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| ROFL~ thanks, Carrie! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| There's a grower who moved from WA to TN a year ago and still grows them there. I'll Cmail her email address when I find it. Nearly idiot proof, (and you are not an idiot,) are Robinhood, Summer Night, My Love, any of the Karma dahlias, Kasasagi, Ruddy, Sweet Dreams, Salsa Picante, Long Island Lil, Neon Splendor, Hale Bopp, Pride of Place, Staci Erin, Jax Char, Rothsay Reveler, Edinburgh...(LOL, I'm thinking of all the ones I have multiples of that grow, bloom and reproduce like crazy.) Plenty more than those... and Janet in TN should be able to advise you further. Here's another place you might inquire- dahlia folk love to share info. Tennessee Dahlia Society http://www.tndahlia.org/ Email: [email protected] Maybe the seeds got too wet, too cold? Those two things are the enemy of the young dahlia tubers, possibly seeds too. Queequeg Carrie grows them in Florida, so you can too! |
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There, see! There's Carrie luring you in with that fuzzy Papa's Benji!  That's how it starts... you grow a few successfully and then decide you GOTTA have more colors, more shapes, more sizes, more time, more land, more help, your head examined....  |
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| "That's how it starts... you grow a few successfully and then decide you GOTTA have more colors, more shapes, more sizes, more time, more land, more help, your head examined...." I have no idea what you mean...Went from 3 varieties in a widdle bitty garden, to 80+ varieties and entire back yard dedicated to them in 3 years. The illness runs deep and I'm too sick to feel shame.     |
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| That is such a familiar tale, Carrie. Do you know how I started this madness? The Puget Sound Dahlia Association packages and sells their member-donated tubers at various nurseries around the area each spring. I didn't know a dahlia from the Dali Lama and grabbed two back when I was into perennials ! The label said "May want to stake." I didn't, and they splayed all over the new raised beds like green, earthbound octopi. But the flowers were so pretty, down there, lying in the dirt... Then I realized this dahlia thing came in more colors, different sizes and shapes. That was at least 600 varieties ago (I've killed off so many) and the madness continues.If they ever hybridize them with significant scent, I'd say "Look out world." |
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| Do all Dahlia-addicts have such great senses of humor? Between splayed land octopus and a lovely lack of shame .... In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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In the advanced stages of the disease, there's no room for shame or a lack of humor, but there is always room for one more dahlia  Edit: Sheryl here is the website of the gal who grows them in Knoxville. http://fleurtiques.net/aboutus.aspx |
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| That is just great, Annie, thank you so much! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| It's a fine line between humor and coo-coo. Maybe, sheryl, we aren't funny at all. Maybe, you are starting to get a little bit mad, like us, and we just SEEM funny. LOL Truth be told, my cheese slid off my cracker many moons ago. But, I like it. Then I can wear outfits like this: Are you near Jackson? I grew up there.
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| *That* is hysterical..... is that your gardening outfit??? Hey, in MY reality, ya'll are hilarious! And that's all that matters, so there. I'm on the other side of Nashville, to the NE, about 1.5-2 hours. DH was raised an hour or so from Jackson in a little town named Ripley, 20 miles away from the river. In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| I love that photo! Was it a 'dress up day' at work outfit? And the cheese sliding off the cracker... is priceless |
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| Yippee-nope, that pic is a friend of a friend, etc. Halloween. Her hubby went as a bee, if I remember correctly. Aww-cool! I miss TN, so beautiful. I will live there again one day. |
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| Well, I guess if you can stand the humidity in FL you can handle it in TN.... but it's been kinda tough this year, with all the 90 degree days. August came early. But you're right, it is so beautiful. In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Yeah, my sissy is sooo upset by the horrible early heat. She stayed behind there, when we all moved here, because she hates heat lol. Foolzees! I want to know how dahlias do there, because I really do plan to live there in the not too far away future. |
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I will do my best to let you know, although Jackson is a wee bit warmer/ wetter than we are.  In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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