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🌱It’s happening!
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Cranky gardener with cats. Oregon 8b. Save the bees. No fascists. He/Him Eat the rich. ACAB
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Steve Nellis
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🌱It’s happening!
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🌱This is another bloom from dahlia Soulman. Lost a couple due to scorching, but have placed beach umbrella overhead. It’s beach blanket Babylon around here.
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🌱Here is a personal favorite of mine. So much so, I think we have it planted in 3 places to ensure we have at least one to carry through the winter. Dahlia David Howard. It’s the dark foliage. The understated color of the bloom. Classic.
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They can be!
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I could, but I’m just a bit lazy. More than a bit, truth be told. I think we’ve saved every plant tag ever in several large boxes.
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Yeah? So sorry. 😖 It’s been a scramble here watering, moving pots, putting up umbrellas. We have a fair bit of native plants and our garden has grown in a bit more than in previous summers. It’s coming through better than I expected.
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Exactly. This is why we plant natives! (He says shoving the sprinklers and hoses back behind the curtain)
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YES! ❤️
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Aww… what sweet faces.
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It seems we have the beginnings of a quorum.
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Ours have been coming back each year for the last 2 seasons.
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Quite lovely. Thank you.
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Yesterday. Before the heat got turned up. Not a red though…
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When do you know? If you have a problem? A 350+ bulb order arriving in the fall. 100+ dahlia tubers purchased plus 2 flats of dahlia seedlings. But hey… it could be worse.
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For salsa!?!? 😉🤣
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Water feature. With a gentle sound.
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🌱You know when you plant something… and you try and keep the tag so you know what it is… but then the tag has gone missing? Yeah. It’s like that. NoID dahlia.
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And here we are today…
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And here’s Giraffe today… a bit more open and not scorched yet.
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🌱One of main reasons we grow a portion of our dahlias from seed is to get these single open dahlia forms. For the bees and pollinators. It works!
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🌱Hollyhill Dragonfire. This dahlia survived a winter in the ground and has grown to over 6’. And now it’s getting ready to bloom.
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🌱Globe thistle decided the heat was sufficient motivation to show off.
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Always enjoy your garden, Harmony. Thank you.
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That’s a stunning bloom.
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We have some seedlings from last year that overwintered in the ground just fine. And yet another batch of seedlings this year as well. We haven’t really thought about doing any sort of breeding or hybridization process.
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Well… that was certainly very interesting. I’ll have to think about how to do such a system into already planted beds. Thank you.
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Still and all… that must have been a very interesting conversation to have with such a knowledgeable person. Just a bit envious… 😉
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We’re waiting another week or two to harvest ours. I think we must have got 5 different types, but I have no memory storage capacity anymore. Next year, we’ve trimmed it down to three.
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I found this post this morning from a dahlia grower I follow. I thought it interesting. I hope it helps?
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Who’s a good boy?!?
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Ooooooo… ❤️
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“self-irrigating”? Details please… as I run outside to move a sprinkler…
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I enjoyed it. I thought to share.
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Also growing “Music” as well. It seems to come highly recommended. That’s some good looking garlicks you gots there. Have also pre-ordered for next year. Yes… it’s that time.
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Lovely orchids. Seconded for the magenta. ❤️ Did you get the opportunity to speak to the person in depth? Any deep orchid secrets? Pithy wisdoms?
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Lovely. 🥰
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That’s gorgeous! We have quite a few in pots, a couple in the ground. Ours are just beginning to start a flower spike thing.
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Some mums have decided to bloom earlier than usual. Oh and it’s murder sun hot today. Again.
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We inherited ours and enjoy it immensely. Still not bloomed yet but soon.
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Indeed.
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Simply rude. Watering before coffee. Indeed!
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Yay! Agapanthus time!
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This is a lovely picture and a great combination.
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Love them cardoons. Have planted a couple and had a couple volunteers! Your native border is simply lovely. Well done.
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<swoons> Reminds me of the first dahlia we purchased.
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We’ve been up early (to alarms on the weekend!) and watering before coffee. Watering. BEFORE. Coffee. Today’s forecast is 100°F/38°C and tomorrow may be 102°F/39°C. We should drop below 90°F/30°C by Thursday. Very little gardening. Watering. Moving plants. Erecting shade. Holding on.
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Reseed prolifically? Is that a bad thing? Could be?
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Thank you!
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We have numerous dahlias in raised beds; the cutting gardens have mums, cosmos, zinnias, and some volunteer poppies and hollyhocks. Another bed with the aforementioned along with some peonies, summer annuals, and a climbing rose. Many are in pots or grow bags (an experiment this season).
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Our climate has been slowly shifting to warmer, drier summers. The winters are pretty mild here in the Willamette Valley. My biggest complaint is the number of consecutive grey days. It’s gets tough not seeing the sun for weeks. I’m told you get used to it… 🤣🤣🤣
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