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Post by Moonlight on Jul 22, 2013 22:07:29 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 22, 2013 22:18:03 GMT
A row of Downham Royal with 1 Weston Pirate in the middle, the smaller of the pots is a Downham Royal cutting but there is a tiny chance that it is a Weston Spanish Dancer. I'll let the flower have the final say on what variety it is. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 22, 2013 22:35:24 GMT
My Jomanda and Mary's Jomanda look like monsters compared with my Franz Kafka and you can't even see the poms. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 22, 2013 22:42:49 GMT
Behind the brown flower pot: Eastwood Moonlight, Peach Delight and Ruskin Bride. Behind the 1st bottle Weston Spanish Dancer, Weston Flamingo, Weston Miss and Clearview Arlene.
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Post by Cherry on Jul 23, 2013 4:36:54 GMT
Is this 200 entries over all Moonlight? Surely not just dahlias. Our local town show is over twice that big and the committee members are holding a meeting shortly to see if it is worth carrying on. If about 200 covers all entries, you should have no bother.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 23, 2013 19:33:10 GMT
Is this 200 entries over all Moonlight? Surely not just dahlias. Our local town show is over twice that big and the committee members are holding a meeting shortly to see if it is worth carrying on. If about 200 covers all entries, you should have no bother. 
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Post by Cherry on Jul 24, 2013 6:25:54 GMT
I am very slow Moonlight. You will walk it in with that beautiful dahlia at any show. I can hardly believe you bought it at Wilkinsons. What a find!  |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 25, 2013 23:44:30 GMT
 My lovely little Pirate is waking up. Weston Pirate that is.  |
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Post by Rosie on Jul 26, 2013 8:37:19 GMT
What a lovely colour ML |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 26, 2013 9:54:19 GMT
It really is that lovely deep colour. It is growing in a row of Downham Royals and they are the same level of deepness of colour but purple. I am glad that I didn't put it next to Weston Miss because it would have detracted from the delicate peachy tones that the petals have. Originally I thought that all they were going to have were 'just' yellow.
I am definitely going to grow more Weston dahlias next year.
Whether I am really brave and have an entry in a single bloom class at the dahlia mini show (ie not the town show that's in September.) or not I will be going round with my camera and taking notes on my favourite varieties.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 27, 2013 17:00:50 GMT
Getting more than a tad frustrated.
It was supposed to rain today. Weather warnings for flash floods. Went out and it was lovely. Hot and sunny. Very sunny, Very hot. Poor plants. Girls were out doing a post Olympics Anniversary dance display. We thought it was going to be in a big local sports centre but it was wasn't it was outside in front of the track. When we found out it was going to be outside we all thought oh dear, they are going to get soaked. Well they didn't they came back with sun burn (not too bad but you can see where they caught the sun).
Living in a house on a water meter we have to be careful with watering and I really don't want to waste the water but just as there began rumbles of thunder, the odd drop of rain - it stopped. It was just like it had changed it's mind.
So it is hot, my plants need a drink - still umming and arhhing whether or not to water, so went in to update my dahlia photos. Spend ages cropping, editing, resizing. Get things how I want but can't log into the website that I keep my photos. Many attempts later, log in but worryingly I can't view all my photos, some but not all.......
grrrrrrrr
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 27, 2013 23:17:24 GMT
The rain did come. Eventually and I've managed to sort out my pictures. So I am a happy bunny again.
So this is what my Weston Pirate looked like yesterday:
and this is how it looked today:
Gorgeous
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 28, 2013 14:32:27 GMT
Rang my Mum this morning. I was hoping that I could speak to my Dad. I want him to show me how he cuts dahlia for shows.
I've made a couple of decisions.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 28, 2013 14:49:54 GMT
1 night of torrential rain and still looking good. You can still see the rain drops. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 29, 2013 21:55:04 GMT
 To show or not to show, that is the question that I've been mulling over. Most specifically, do I want to show my dahlias? Are they going to be good enough?
So this is my line of thinking......
This is sort of separate to the whole local town Novice cup. I knew what I wanted to do before I even got my 1st tuber. I want to grow Downham Royal and I wanted to enter the local town Novice class. Spring and Summer + everything else, all the other classes are what contributes to my whole very sharp learning curve that I am going on - with this whole show business. When I was little I never knew a time when dahlias didn't dominate our family life calender. Maybe they didn't really dominate, heavily influence what we did. Nobody else I knew didn't have a garden. What my friends had as a garden had a lawn. We didn't really have much of a lawn. Mum had a grass patch large enough for her rotary washing line. That was the size of my 'garden' the rest was dahlias.
(I'm going to stop there because my mind has gone on a tangent away from my whole dahlia comp or not. Basically am I going to be good enough. Not to win but to compete. Ok that is not true, I want to win but I don't mind not getting placed or anything, I just worry am I going to be good enough to enter - without it being a big mistake because I'm not really good enough.)
I'm rambling, best to stop now. |
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