What an interesting colour that Camano Grace has.

I love your sense of humour with respect to Thomas Alva Edison.

The Ivory Palace reminds me of one I used to have. It was a prolific bloomer, and I had LOTS of little guys growing this spring, so decided to do some trading. Somehow, I think I traded all of mine away, and so had none this year. :(

Well JRoot I have two Ivory Palaces and I'd be happy to share, but I don't know if there's an easy way to appease the Canadian vegetative matter police. What is the deal with tubers going to Canada anyway? I bet we share the same viruses affecting dahlias already.

I've had some communication with another Canadian dahlia fan and she said it was very difficult, costly in terms of time and expense, for even professional growers to ship to our neighbors to the north. Why is that?

I gather it is just merely avoiding the possibility of spreading any viruses etc. Protectionism et al. It is probably not worthy of the effort....unfortunately :(

Beautiful. :-D

Here is Stellyvone, not nearly as big as the first of its blooms and a long time for the second ones to come around, but the highlighting lavender tips are more obvious now in cooler weather. Not fully opened here but I couldn't wait.
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And here is the same Ivory Palaces pictured above next to a volleyball. I had no helper to measure but I'd guess it is close to ten inches across and 9 inches deep. A real trooper and not one bug bite! You'd think the earwigs would treat this like a Ramada Inn.
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Hissy Fitz- waited sooooo long for this blistering yellow and all it does is give me the 'evil eye.' I hope any future blooms are better than this one.
It's a bright stunning yellow, I will say.
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Another of the biggest flowers I've ever grown: a white dinner plate and it wasn't even the first bloom off the plant. It was also better than ten inches across and just BIG, what else can one say?
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Got a name for that (giant, jumbo, bigger than a young man's imagination), white one? It's purdy.

Just stunning Poochella, Camano Grace is one to drool over and what else can be said about Ivory Palace, just breath- taking!!!

Thanks for sharing , great photos!

Granny- I really racked my imagination and creativity and ended up calling the monster white one "White Dinner Plate." Its real name, if it had one, was lost long ago. I think this plant comes from stock I've had for 8-9 years.
It's a great tuber maker if you'd care to try one. Bet your grandkids would love it.

POOCHELLA, wouild love a start of Ivory Palaces if you have one! IT would look great with Marvelous Sal and Cafe au Lait!
Hissy Fitzs is cute too! How big a flower does it make?

I have a white flower that has the fringed edge like that. I can't find it on any list and don't know where it came from but it is getting a prime spot next year when I move things around!

Poochella, my Grands are welcome to climb over, under, and around anything in the veggie garden, but I draw the line at my flowers!!! They can pick the beans, peel the corn, poke the taters and squish the maters, just don't touch Grandma's flowers (without permission.) I think they came out of the womb knowing this..... And still, they love me.

And I would love a tuber from the monster White Dinner Plate.

Granny excellent teaching to the young ones. I saw my Mom cry once when the paper boy trucked his biked through her flower bed. Personally, I'd have gone for some serious paperboy battery with a trowel instead of tears, but the feeling behind the action is the same. White DP is on your list.

Liza, I have you down for Ivory Palaces, it is big. Hissy Fitz, a better photo taken today follows, gets to be 6 inches across. I say that based on 3 blooms I've cut so far. Bright yellow (as any fool can see!)
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Can you believe it: Mid October and I can finally show you two more recent ( like in the past week) blooms:
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Thomas Alva Edison!!! Of course the color is poorly captured and the flower beat up by rain, but at least I lived to see it!
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and another long awaited arrived: Yvonne, medium pink waterlily on 3 ft bush and a slow one at that.
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Poochella,
Wow. They are truly great beauties. I still have several that don't bloom at all. Guess what. 'Bracken Ballerina' finally graced my garden. I need to take a pic to show you. Such delicate beauty. Thanks and thanks for sharing all these dahlias.

Pitimpani, I lost all my Bracken Ballerinas and would love to have a tuber back. It is a wonderful delicate colored bloom and I missed it this year.

Oh, what I've been missing. Not checking out the gallery. They are all beautiful, Poochella. Yvonne is such a soft pink.And Camano Grace. What did you feed your Ivory Palaces??? Such a full bloom.

Simply gorgeous! Thanks for sharing these! Even when I see a photo with a dinner plate sized dahlia next to a soccer or basketball, it still doesn't sink in that it is really that big. I may have to try these. I would imagine you have to stake each blossom?

Hi Putzer, No need to stake each stem/blossom, but the stalks on those huge ones tend to be massive: easily 2 inches thick at the base. With a few blooms on each plant they can get heavy in wind and rainfall, so ample staking/support is wise. Some of the stems are mammoth as well, but oh so worthwhile to get that flower.

I highly recommend Ivory Palaces to anyone: it is just a wonderful bloom, airy and light; fluffy, not stuffy! It's going to be really hard to cut down my last plant of it tomorrow : (

Poochella, is Rothsay Reveler a late bloomer or on the earlier side? I have to avoid some of the later ones because of my season length.

Rothsay Reveller blooms fairly early; not the earliest, but not in October either! I am trying to think of other early ones for you, but that was so long ago, I can't remember what happened yesterday much of the time- let alone months ago.

'Bliss' a little ~4 inch pink and yellow waterlily comes to mind as a consistently early bloomer. Lots of flowers on good stems for Bliss.

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this one is a little too open and beat up by rain no doubt
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When I have time (don't hold your breath!) I will try to go back to my photos for 05 and see what order I took them in. That will help spur my memory on who bloomed when.

My Bliss did bloom earlier. Those waterlily type are a nice contrast to the f and inf. dec. types.

Looking at all of your pictures, I have fallen in love with the waterlily types. And the coloring has a real delicate-ness about it.

Poochella,
I am sorry you lost all your Bracken Ballerina. In spring, I'll send you the best I got - that is if I have not mangled them all.

Putzer, I think I like them all, but the laciniated did not do well for me in arrangements. Maybe we cut them too late.