Series: Guide to Future Self Journaling – Beginnings!
Guide to and personal anecdote regarding why I am future self journaling.
Dahlia Love – The No-Bloomers of 2019
My experience purchasing and growing Hollyhill Orange Ice and Belle Of Barmera dahlias. Neither bloomed in 2019, both bloomed in 2020. Zone 5.
Dahlia Love – Wyns Moonlight Sonata
Images and growing notes for the Wyn’s Sonata growing in Zone 5.
Dahlia Love – Paul Smith
Deep red Dahlia – Paul Smith
Dahlia Love – HELP! Irish Glow or Frank Newaukum?
All plants grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Gardening personality relaxed and experimental, purist about very little. Growing Days approximately 135 I thought I …
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Dahlia Love – Midnight Moon
This dahlia, Midnight Moon, was one of the first dahlias to bloom and was the last to bloom before frost, a full season show. It was the only dahlia that survived at least five nights below 32 degrees. The plant is very prolific, many blooms.
Dahlia Love – Spartacus
Images and growth notes for the Spartacus dahlia.
Dahlia Love – Labyrinth
Images and growing notes of the Labyrinth dahlia.
Dahlia Love, L.A.T.E.
L.A.T.E. dahlia images and growth notes.
I Win!!
photo Credit CElisabeth@8thdeadlysin.org I’ve been doing this thing where I have to be one of the first people to order seeds once I receive my Whole Seeds catalog in the mail from Bakers Creek. I spend the previous garden season circling what I like in the catalog and reading review left by other astute gardeners …