Dahlia disaster!

I looked at your website and I have three of the same dahlias that you are showing. At the end of the season last year I had a large cake to make for a function. I used the red and white dahlias to decorate the top.

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Vox Humana
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Yeah...I have some cannas that I've been caring for, even while in an apartment. They're 10 years old, and required 8 million dollars worth of big pots and soil, but well worth it.

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Doug Kanter

I had some left and no place to plant them so I put them in huge pots. My deck got so overgrown with stuff that I had to move one of the pots last week. That was job! Now I have two brugmansias that are taking over. They started three years ago as six inch plants in tiny pots. Now they are approaching 6 feet and are sprawling. I had to repot them a couple of weeks. I hope I can move them inside this winter. Each pot took 60 pounds of potting soil -- before adding the 6 foot tall plant with its already heavy rootball. One is putting on its first really spectacular display of flower. They have only had a boom here and there. Now one of them is covered with flowers and in the evening you can smell it for a considerable distance. In the winter I have several 20 gal. pots of bananas, the brugs, and a madevilla to bring in along with boxes of cannas and some dahlias.

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Vox Humana

I don't have enough to bother with. There is a farmer near by that has a huge cutting garden where he operates a farm stand. No dahlias, but lots of other stuff.

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Vox Humana

So far I have left them where they fell. The main stocks are sharply pinched, but everything looks fine. There is no wilting and our temperatures have been quite hot. I think I will let them sprawl because I think If I mess with them it will do them in.

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Vox Humana

Haven't you learned the rules of gardening excess? :-)

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Doug Kanter

I think that is one of the most unusual uses of Dahlias that I have hear of. Most of mine wind up as cut flowers. I give them to anyone that asks for "some flowers that last a long time".

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Bill R

Not always, I plant my gardens so other plants help hold my larger flowering plants up, I don't normally stake any of my plants. Colleen Zone 5 CT

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GrampysGurl

Dinner plate sized dahlias get huge... More people should grow dahlias in my oppinion, they are easy to grow and bloom all summer into fall... butterflies love them as well. The one gardening chore other then the privet hedgr trimming DH does around here is dig my dahlias after the first frost for me. He's done it since the year I was PG with our son, I wasn't feeling well that year. Colleen Zone 5 CT

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GrampysGurl

Any chance you can name a few of the strong upright living stakes? I like the idea. I grow vines like moonflower and morning glory on small flowering trees like stewartia and franklinia , but stake dahlias, plox and peonies . Would really like to know more that works for you.

Thank You!

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William Wagner

Gee - I wonder why! LOL

The summer I was expected DD will forever be know as the summer I didn't garden.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

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