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First year growing Dahlias, first bloom came in about a week ago.

Some blooms from today:

Hollyhill Starburst, this is so pretty, Wish the bloom is bigger.

Snoho Storm

Candlelight

Sky Angel

Pineland Princess

Who dun it dahlia.

Oh, that is a pretty one! Bicolors always pop.

beautiful dahlias-my selection is limited this year because winter storage wasn't outstandingly successful but looking at all of your beauties is almost as good.

this is my first year growing dahlias. I got this tuber from the local dahlia club's sale. I think I'm hooked lol!

Thomas Edison's are doing great., More to come this weekend.

This one has a lot of potential.

Candy Cane.

Does anybody know what kind is the one I posted a couple days ago?. I bought them at Home Depot and the bag just said mixed Dahlias.

Envd05, a mixed bag could contain surplus varieties of any quality, or could be unnamed seedlings that weren't good enough to sell individually. It is difficult to tell from your single specimen what it's full potential is, and there are literally hundreds of named varieties with pink/yellow blends out there.

It is also very tricky assigning a name to a plant unless there is a high percent certainty through where you acquired it that the name is indeed correct.

cicivacation, thanks for that. It is definitely not a good idea buying mixed bags because you just don't know what you get. Sometimes you get a nice one and sometimes just mediocre varieties or seedlings. I have learned this from buying mixed bags. I bought a mixed bag for $12 with 5 varieties. They all flowered but only one has nice flowers. So basically, I paid $12 for one nice variety which I don't even know its name.

Vulcan Semi-Cactus

Thanks everyone for sharing your photos. I am enjoying seeing the different varieties. Got mine planted late and have been housebound for several weeks but see the small orange ones blooming. Hope some of the others bloom before we get a freeze. From my window they look like they are growing well but can't tell if they have any buds yet.

I love cactus types. They make such striking additions to flower bouquets! Love the streaks on your cactus dahlia Vulcan. I think Thomas Edison is a beauty too. It has such a lovely colored bloom that lasts a long time on the bush.

bought several started tubers at a church rummage sale none had names just letters and a listing with pictures so you could tell the collors we had such a wet June that my larger plants have been late blooming I think it was worth the weight but I'd love to know the name of this beauty

Got this at my local horticulture societies sale on the table of "named plants" but I'm not sure if the name was right or if someone switched the tags lol the tag said Yellow Star i like it but I thought I was getting a yello orchid dahlia

i had a bit of an earwig problem this year luckily I was temporarily on evening shift so came home in the middle of the night and was picking them off of my bulbs n flowers ...of course I've been told that all the raid gave us a bump up in earwigs this year

Woke up this morning just to find most of my Dahlias are all eaten up. The first couple of ones had no problems.. I have seen earwigs and so rather large grass hoppers on them from time to time, one by one I take them off.. What is eating my Dahlias this bad?!?

envd05, If you've seen earwigs on them, they're probably eating them. They do their work at night and hide between petals or other shady places lower on the plants during the day. They do most of their damage on the flower petals. Check some of the threads on earwigs on this Garden Web site for help with earwigs. I'm in Colorado and have had a big problem with earwigs and have learned a bit about dealing with them.

If you're picking them off one by one, they're probably gaining on you! You can make traps of plastic drink bottles by cutting the tops off in a way that you can turn the top upside down and fit it into the lower part of the bottle without it touching the bottom. Put in just enough vegetable oil and sugar water or maple syrup, maybe a few drops of soy sauce, so that it doesn't touch the upside down tip of the top part of the bottle. Place traps under the dahlias, up against the main stem.

I use one rebar as the main support for each of my dahlias. I place a tennis ball, yes a tennis ball, on the top of each rebar by cutting a slice in one side of the tennis ball. This keeps me from getting cut by the sharp end of the rebar that is created by driving it into the ground with a hammer when I reach in to cut or weed the dahlias. But more importantly, it serves as the best possible earwig trap that I have found! I bait them with a few drops of the previously mentioned mix that earwigs find attractive, and every morning I go out early with a bucket of water with a little oil on the surface, and shake dozens and dozens of earwigs out of the tennis balls into the bucket, where they expire. At the end of the earwigs' nighttime feeding, they find the inside of the tennis balls to be a nice, dark hiding place. But if you wait too long in the morning and the sun warms them up, they will vacate the tennis balls. I've found that even without any bait, the tennis balls attract many earwigs.

Of course, the large grasshoppers are probably doing some damage, too. Good luck!

wow great information John Todd thank you. Love the tennis ball trap, plan to use that for earwigs which give me a hard time in the early summer

This one is called Precious, from Swan Island Dahlias. It's one of my favorites, grows five feet tall for me and is a prolific bloomer.

John Todd thank u for all that valuable information.I actually ended up picking out the ear wigs and grass hoppers by hand daily and I no longer see a problem.

Here is another one. I don't know the name but the color is just beautiful!

Finally I have one dahlia flower for the season. I don't even remember planting this kind!

Wow, the dahlias are gorgeous. John, love the sweet romantic look of Precious.

Envd05, I agree that the color of your dahlia is so intense and beautiful. I like how the red deepens from the outer petals toward the center. DO you know its name?

mkpearse, so glad that at least some dahlias bloom for you given the troubles that you had earlier in the season. It is wildly beautiful! I really like it. I hope you will able to grow it again next year.

Thanks Karen! This one has a funny story. I was digging around to see where I could plant my new tubers I bought and I found this one. It looked dead and half rotted. I threw it in the compost and three days later I go back there and find it with a new growth! I immediately put it in the ground and the rest is history :D

Two versions of Duet from the same plant:

HH6in1 Colors are getting better and deeper

Thomas Edison

"Betty My Love"

"Ringo"

And another one. Again no name.

My daughter wanted to surprise me, so she sneakily planted this in one of my big pots. Of course she did not record the name, but it is a lovely, fairly deep purple, and it is still opening buds as of today, October 4th.

THat looks alot like Thomas Edison. I love this dahlia. It has huge perfect blooms with a deep violet purple color.

That certainly sounds like this dahlia, thank you for the name! As I look out my window right now I see that it has three blooms ready to bring in to a vase, ya gotta love a daliah (or any flower) with that much drive to produce. I have to run to Costco, but when I come home I have more dahlia photos I can share.

Thomas Edison for sure , one of my favorites. It did very well this year in my garden.

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Here are pics of my 'York & Lancaster'. The first shows the random range of colors one can expect from a single bloom; the second shows the random range of colors one can expect from a single plant. I LOVE this dahlia.

This was my favorite dahlia and I forgot to take it in and frost killed it. I'm so mad at myself.

You still have the tuber which you can use to plant next year right? Usually the flower and foliage is killed but the tubers in the ground will be ok.

Yes, it's still in the pot. Can I just put the pot in the garage or bring it in the house?

If your garage does not freeze, I don't see why not.

magiclamp1, It's important that the temperature in your garage does not get below freezing, and it's also important that it doesn't get above 50 degrees F. Check some of the forums on this site for information about storing dahlia tubers.

My favorite photos

awesome, have not seen this variety

my twinning smartie dahlia last year

another beautiful fire-like dahlia