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Post by Moonlight on Jul 29, 2013 23:17:20 GMT
Guess who?  |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 30, 2013 6:16:42 GMT
I can guess! Re your post, just get in there and get the dahlias entered and shown. You have done the work and preparation and they are good enough to show themselves.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 30, 2013 17:43:15 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.
Talked things through about showing. Mini, biggie, townie, mini. I got things wrong. For the 2 mini shows I don't have to decide to show specific classes until the day. It's just the biggie that I have to make that decision. Tad confusing for me to grasp but I am getting there. I think. Find out next month!
Make it 18 days! |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 30, 2013 17:50:25 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.
Talked things through about showing. Mini, biggie, townie, mini. I got things wrong. For the 2 mini shows I don't have to decide to show specific classes until the day. It's just the biggie that I have to make that decision. Tad confusing for me to grasp but I am getting there. I think. Find out next month!
Make it 18 days! 
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 31, 2013 0:03:36 GMT
Saw this
Daughter number 1 saw this dahlia on my computer and asked if it was a dead dahlia.
Dad got this as a freebie tuber from one of his orders from US. If it were his it would have gone straight in the compost bin.
Beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder.
I think that I'm a bit of a purist. Just like my Dad on that one but with one big exception.
He was talking about getting this:
Blue Bayou
He made a face when I said that it was ugly.
I said that it looks like a poppy and I like poppies but a dahlia should look like a dahlia.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 31, 2013 20:10:18 GMT
My New Year's Next Growing Year's Season Resolutions:
Go with the flow in the garden but
- Listen to the level headed voices of experience.
- Ask questions (but don't panic if things go wrong because you'll not be the only one to have made the same mistake.)
- Be (a bit) more ruthless and not so much of a wooss in the garden. Taking out side shoots ultimately help the plants put their energy in flowering or developing fruits rather than develop trunks and branches like triffids.
- Get better at tieing up plants.
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 1, 2013 11:38:29 GMT
I received a delivery today!!! |
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 1, 2013 12:03:42 GMT
Met the postman coming up our road while we were hurrying down on route to swimming lesson. Had a parcel for me to sign for. Couldn't wait to get back home and open it, only to discover that it wasn't what I expected. (Something nice but not expected yet) So was disappointed. About an hour later there was a knock, knock at the door and a red Royal Mail van outside. A parcel very much wished for had arrived. Someone is going to get his Birthday present tonight. Tad late but he won't care. He might even let me take some photos for my Diary. I've already been asked to bring my camera and I am pretty sure why. He has got for the 2nd year running the wrong dahlias and I think he is going to have a moan . Well, he will certainly have something to make him smile.
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Post by Tel on Aug 1, 2013 15:13:33 GMT
I received a delivery today!!!I wonder what it could be. |
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 2, 2013 14:49:38 GMT
Actually although it is the wrong dahlia again he wants to know what the dahlia is called because it is a really nice colour. So he is going to email them and ask what it is called.
I'll ask him if he could take a cutting or 2 for me next year... I think it was supposed to be a Downham Royal but Pretty in Pink (My name for it) looks pretty to me.
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Post by Tel on Aug 2, 2013 18:09:29 GMT
What made you buy Dahlia's from the USA ?
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 2, 2013 20:22:55 GMT
Dad wanted me to order some dahlias from the USA, he didn't have reliable internet access and to be honest he isn't hugely compatible with emails at the best of times. (He wouldn't be offended if he knew that I had written that).
He always has one eye on the show table but he is looking for varieties that would be good potential seedling parents. The first order that he asked me to make was with the same people that raised Trooper Dan which does well in the shows. Clearview dahlias. When I was looking at the order I fell in love with Candy Jayne a really pretty striking variegated semi cactus. Tried to order it but they didn't have enough stock, so fingers crossed they will get it for next year.
Having decided to get a variegated dahlia I decided to get one of their new introductions Clearview Jenny which basically rotted. My freebie Clearview Orcha was rubbish but my Clearview Arlene did grow. The ones Dad ordered were medium/large Semi Cactus / Cactus. He asked me to order from another USA place one of which is a ball called Red Balloon which he has given me a cutting that rooted. (So that's next to my Jomanda.)
Sorry long boring answer to your question. (Should have just written because my Dad asked me to for him and I saw a dahlia which I fell in love and added it to the order, then ended up ordering something else because they didn't have it.)
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 2, 2013 20:32:45 GMT
Tel, 'Pretty in Pink' (again my name - probably a name someone has given to a dahlia variety - apologies if that is the case) in photo is from a UK supplier.
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 2, 2013 21:33:12 GMT
I think it was supposed to be a Downham Royal but Pretty in Pink (My name for it) looks pretty to me.
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Post by Moonlight on Aug 3, 2013 8:20:48 GMT
I am officially a wuss, I have taken photos this morning to add to the dahlia blooms thread but I have chickened out.
After a lot of thought I thought that I would have a go with putting just this one of Downham Royal and the rest here but I've bottled it.
So here are the photos that I took that I wanted to put on the dahlia blooms gallery...
Downham Royal
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