List of flowers I am growing this year, including vendor and other info. Excluding my dahlia collection. All seeds grown in the high wind, lower rain 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 …
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My example today of my future self journaling. Part of a personal, heart-felt, RIVETING series. I am the star of my own show, after all. Aren’t we all!
If you have gardens set by color, as I do, check the background color of the leaves in the photo of the dahlia tuber you are looking to buy. I find many sellers will color adjust to make a dahlia seem a rarer color than it actually is. Or, perhaps a new seller may not pay attention ensuring a color is true when they throw up a photo of the dahlia for sale.
The goal of the home gardener’s cold stratification process is to mimic the winter conditions the seed in the wild would experience in the habitat that plant is best suited for. In my own example, Gentian is a mountain flower. The seed, in the wild, would cold stratify under snowpack (moist) in a cold environment with freezing temperatures.
My experience purchasing and growing Hollyhill Orange Ice and Belle Of Barmera dahlias. Neither bloomed in 2019, both bloomed in 2020. Zone 5.
Images and growing notes for the Wyn’s Sonata growing in Zone 5.
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.
Images and growth notes for the Spartacus dahlia.
The three dahlias I planted the first year. Just a short love letter to one of my favorite beauties.