marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Oct 28, 2012 17:42:24 GMT
Great Dahlias, Scrumpy! I do like the colour of Mary's Jomanda grown there - just a tone softer than any I have seen in New Zealand. Is it that colour all season where you live, or is it more intense earlier on?
|
|
|
|
Post by scrumpy on Oct 28, 2012 18:09:07 GMT
The bloom is a little darker than the photo. Pretty much the same all season.
|
|
|
|
Post by Rosie on Oct 29, 2012 9:00:21 GMT
Tel, my polytunnel looks just like your greenhouse ;D Your dahlias are lovely Scrumpy, your garden must look great when they are all in bloom  |
|
|
|
Post by snute2008 on Oct 29, 2012 16:37:01 GMT
Interested to hear about composting the tubers. I did not realise that they would compost down. I have started digging mine up now.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tel on Oct 29, 2012 19:23:00 GMT
They will break down just like any other vegetable materiel.
|
|
marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Oct 30, 2012 4:13:47 GMT
The Southern Hemisphere season is just around the corner with my first bud showing a bit of petal ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by Tel on Oct 30, 2012 7:46:24 GMT
The Southern Hemisphere season is just around the corner with my first bud showing a bit of petal ;D I am jealous now. ;D |
|
|
|
Post by dcdahlia on Oct 30, 2012 9:20:04 GMT
And all we have to look forward to tel is dark cold days and trying to overwinter tubers  |
|
marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Oct 30, 2012 9:41:19 GMT
Well, Dcdahlia, there are a handful of my tubers which I shall not allow to teach any of your tubers their wicked ways. They are not submitting to my will by bursting into life, even though others are on the verge of flowering. Definitely slackers. Bracken Ballerina and Figurine are both in the naughty corner, leaving me with no pink waterlilies. Castle Drive is also not in my good books with no hint of an eye on any tuber. White Purity, Kenora Macop B and Arabian Night look as though they may wake up soon, but they had better get a wriggle on. These are all ones I had last year. One or two of the new ones are being a bit slow, but they have come from a cooler climate, so they get extra leeway for acclimatisation.
|
|
marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Oct 31, 2012 5:16:47 GMT
White Purity and Arabian Night now doing the right things. ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by Tel on Nov 1, 2012 19:21:48 GMT
A lady knocked at our door this afternoon, Brenda answered it, i was sat in the kitchen having a cuppa. Brenda shouted through there is a lady at the door who wants some advise on dahlia's.
The lady wanted to know when the best time to lift her dahlia plants and the best way to store them over winter.
It was a good job she did not have a bus to catch, if you miss one it is another half hour before the next bus.
Anyway i explained to her what she needed to do about her plants.
Has she was on her way home closing the gate behind her, she was rubbing her ear, i shouted to her you want to see a doctor about that ear ache. The lady muttered something i did not quite catch as she set off down the road. ;D
|
|
marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Nov 3, 2012 22:06:59 GMT
Helga is now showing colour on a bud. Tsuki Yori No Shisha looks as though it will open its first bloom today or tomorrow. A very thin bud, which I am sure will yield a daisy eyed flower, but it will still be exciting to see the first bloom of the season.
|
|
marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Nov 4, 2012 6:47:58 GMT
No flowers open yet. Maybe tomorrow  |
|
|
|
Post by Tel on Nov 4, 2012 14:14:04 GMT
I am getting around with this dahlia lark these day's. New Zealand and Canada now. ;D
|
|
marynz
Full Member
Tweeting as @POSKidsNZ
Posts: 226
|
Post by marynz on Nov 4, 2012 17:08:31 GMT
That's the way to do it!
|
|
