For real I didn’t know this was possible. I’ve been searching for a glowy pale pink dahlia for years! I only have one plant and can’t mess this up. What should I do?
The tag only said Dahlia but they were discounted to $5 because they looked a bit sad. I love the colors though.
Hi! I’m a dahlia collector, floral designer, lover of all things beautiful— my husband and I launched a passion project and I’m stoked to finally share it with this dahlia community!
Here are some of the key features-
-Free Dahlia Library with over 6,700 varieties and counting. Users are adding their own pictures and the goal is to be the largest comprehensive dahlia gallery, not with stock images but dahlias photographed in a garden!
- Garden Map- an interactive dahlia garden planning tool now available to every user on Dahlia Market.
-A garden profile where you can showcase what varieties you’re growing and see what’s planted in your friends garden
-a marketplace for buying and selling dahlias, open to growers of any size. We do the website hosting and marketing & stripe verification helps keep everyone accountable.
-keep a wishlist and get notifications when the dahlia you are hunting for gets listed, taking the ease off of dahlia wars in the winter
-tuber and storage organization that can be downloaded into an excel spreadsheet.
-seedling tracking for hybridizers, big or small
Honestly there’s so much more. We worked hard on the design and flow, hoping it’s a website that optimizes on the user experience and fills many gaps for the dahlia community.
Check it out and let me know what you think!
We’ve got an Instagram going with some more details if you’re into that @dahlia.market
-Sheena, co founder
Daughter works at a hardware store and brought me home ‘surprise’ tubers in February. Maybe Gallery Singer?! But this plant is super tall.
I really need some kind of 'Dahlia Anonymous' support group right now! I am a failure to growing dahlias and feeling incredibly frustrated. Three years ago, I put a single tuber in the ground. It successfully returned the last two years, though this season it sprouted incredibly late in June instead of March.
Spurred by that initial success, I expanded last year and planted more in the spring. Most sprouted and bloomed, but they were all week looking and by fall, the flowers looked pretty rough. Thinking I had failed to amend the soil correctly, I dug half of them up for winter storage. Unfortunately, I lost half during winter, and the remaining half never sprouted after replanting.
Determined to bypass my soil issues, I decided to switch to grow bags this year. I spent $150 on new tubers in May and tried to pre sprout them in plastic bags. I missed the crucial instruction to keep them in the shade, and the sun completely cooked them. Refusing to give up, I spent another $150 to replace them and planted them directly into grow bags last month. Now that it’s July, I just checked on them and it’s a disaster. Some are completely rotten, some dried up, and some that did sprout have withered away. A few of them sprouted but still are tiny. On top of that, my original in ground bed has one plant that never went dormant and looks terrible.
In the last year alone, I’ve spent over $400 on dahlias and have absolutely nothing to show for it. I feel like I'm doing everything wrong. Please be kind with this idiot, but I desperately need someone to tell me where I am messing up!
*Edit The picture of the one in the ground is the first one I planted that comes up every year. The one that did not go dormant last year is on the left towards the middle by the grow bags.
This dahlia has grown to over 7 feet tall and is just now finally budding. I've never seen anything like it. For such a massive plant, the buds sure seem very, very small. For scale, that's a 6 foot tall sunflower to its left. Absolutely bonkers. Anyone ever had a dahlia go beast mode like this? It seemed on its way to a normal size earlier in the spring but the Santa Ana winds we get here in so cal snapped it to the ground. I put a massive tomato tower around it and wished it the best and it apparently came back with something to prove. I fed it a high bloom feed when it kept growing and not forming buds but that seemed to deform the new leaf growth a bit. Other than that seems healthy other than some minor powdery mildew on the lower leaves I've been clearing. This this is a bit more than I bargained for, haha. No idea what the flowers will look like!
I have two established metal raised beds in front of our townhouse that I’ve used to plant dahlias for two summers now.
I’ve used t-posts and the corral method to support my plants, but I’ve had a tough time with theft this season especially. I had all four posts stolen from one bed in June, replaced them and installed wire twine on Monday, and woke up to see one post missing already today. I’m at my wit’s end — I’m not even sure how they managed to get the post out of the wire twine I used — and I’m hesitant to keep replacing them because I’m worried whoever’s taking them will end up killing a plant next time they pull the stake out.
Does anyone have ideas for preventing t-post theft? Or do you have ideas on another more theft-resistant option for staking? I was hoping to avoid concrete-anchored fence posts, but I’m out of other ideas and know I need to get my plants staked sooner rather than later to avoid wind damage.
Unknown variety, grown from seed.
I planted several dahlia tubers from costco back in mid april (my first time) and this one in particular didn’t grow too well so I decided to dug it up today so I can use the pot.
Question: there seems to be more of theses guys than when I planted, what can I do with these?
Now if I just knew what it was . . .
and there are much more coming, i just love them.
Caught these MFers red handed. I’ve been manually flicking them off but I can’t stand here all day. I have neem oil but can anyone please advise me on best application practice?
If I’m understanding right, I spray like one spray on the flower petals in the AM then rinse off the oil? What do you guys do?
I had to yoink a couple of my dahlias due to viral infections and pickings were slim at the local nurseries this late in the season. This one I got was just labeled "assorted dahlia" so if anyone has any ideas, I'd be most grateful. Blooms (so far) are roughly 3-4" across, foliage is dark but not quite a "black" variety.
My husband and I made our first cuts of the year! We are not sure what types we have because he inherited some tubers a few years ago and we have just been keeping track by their colors. TIA!
Some real beauties in this bouquet, all the pinks!
Pics taken this morning after consecutive days of 100 degree temps.
I didn't plan my gardening efforts well, and I hadn't gotten around to staking my dahlias. And then we had a severe thunderstorm last night.
Here's a photo of just ONE of the several casualties, from a thriving KA Cinder Rose. This was the one I was most looking forward to, and I let this happen. GodDAMN this one hurts.
Can I plant this, after removing the foliage [and the gorgeous buds that now won't get to bloom!!!]?
[edited for clarity]