I posted my response to your bouquet on the plant forume. You have been holding out on us.

Beautiful arrangement. I used to live in norheast Washington State so you have my plaudits for even trying to grow flowers in Alaska. Well done.

Love the colors! I'm sad your season is ending, but I see the days here shortening, and the nights getting cooler and know the best has passed for this year. Anything from here on, I consider a bonus.

Nice one Mytime.

As I remember, you have a green house - do you plant some of your tubers in pots and move them back to the green house to extend your season?

We have been known to have hard frosts by now, but I am hoping for another month of Dahlia blooms here. I have a few new plants that went in late and are just now budding up, so I am hopeful that I will get to see blooms from them before the season ends.

No, I don't. They're too large, and there is too much other stuff to do this time of year. And I don't heat the greenhouse in the fall, so although some years that would give another month, for others it might only be a week. I do have 3 that never made it out of their pots that I put in the greenhouse though. They got such a late start that it wasn't worth putting them out. I'm hoping they just last long enough to make a new tuber!