Comments on: Free Dahlias! (if you move in the right circles) http://leslieland.com/2008/09/free-dahlias-if-you-move-in-the-right-circles/ in Kitchen and Garden and all around the House Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:52:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: leslie http://leslieland.com/2008/09/free-dahlias-if-you-move-in-the-right-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 leslie Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:44:48 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=781#comment-1201 Fern, if you ever learn how the people who market new flowers decide which ones deserve their attention, please let us all know... and I surely promise to do the same. Meanwhile, we can be "in charge" (at least to some extent) ourselves. The <a href="http://seedsavers.org/prodinfo.asp?number=FHE" rel="nofollow">Flower and Herb Exchange</a> branch of Seed Savers is a hotbed - pardon the puns - of nifty offerings from fellow gardeners all over the country. Davene, Delighted your talk-dahlia worked out well -- and that's a great story about the lazarus tuber. Red and white no less! Sure hope it made new tubers this year and will be perpetuating itself. Fern, if you ever learn how the people who market new flowers decide which ones deserve their attention, please let us all know… and I surely promise to do the same. Meanwhile, we can be “in charge” (at least to some extent) ourselves. The Flower and Herb Exchange branch of Seed Savers is a hotbed – pardon the puns – of nifty offerings from fellow gardeners all over the country.

Davene, Delighted your talk-dahlia worked out well — and that’s a great story about the lazarus tuber. Red and white no less! Sure hope it made new tubers this year and will be perpetuating itself.

]]> By: Davene http://leslieland.com/2008/09/free-dahlias-if-you-move-in-the-right-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-1200 Davene Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:45:18 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=781#comment-1200 Hi Leslie, I was one of the lucky people to be at your talk at the Thomaston Library where you so generously donated dahlias to the audience. Mine turned out to be Honka and it's quite lovely. Funny thing happened with a dahlia bulb I thought was dead this past spring. I threw it out near a back garden and just recently saw a red and white bloom Since I don't know of anything natural that would have that color combination, I checked it out and to my utter amazement, it was the dahlia I threw into the bushes growing merrily away. They are tough! Hi Leslie,
I was one of the lucky people to be at your talk at the Thomaston Library where you so generously donated dahlias to the audience.
Mine turned out to be Honka and it’s quite lovely.
Funny thing happened with a dahlia bulb I thought was dead this past spring. I threw it out near a back garden and just recently saw a red and white bloom Since I don’t know of anything natural that would have that color combination, I checked it out and to my utter amazement, it was the dahlia I threw into the bushes growing merrily away. They are tough!

]]> By: Fern http://leslieland.com/2008/09/free-dahlias-if-you-move-in-the-right-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 Fern Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:12:55 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=781#comment-1202 <i>On the other hand, if I were in the business of selling dahlia tubers, I certainly might be tempted to increase a few of the Bishop’s kids, give ‘em names and turn ‘em lose on the market.</i> How come the people in charge of these things never listen to people like us?! They'd be rich and gardeners would be happy. Win, win! On the other hand, if I were in the business of selling dahlia tubers, I certainly might be tempted to increase a few of the Bishop’s kids, give ‘em names and turn ‘em lose on the market.

How come the people in charge of these things never listen to people like us?! They’d be rich and gardeners would be happy. Win, win!

]]> By: leslie http://leslieland.com/2008/09/free-dahlias-if-you-move-in-the-right-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-1203 leslie Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:45:25 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=781#comment-1203 Hi Fern, All of the dahlias in that arrangement - except the Honkas - are from one packet of Bishop's Children seeds I started MANY years ago. (One year was enough, since so many made tubers to store.) Bishop’s Children seeds are still offered for sale and none of the vendors describes them as a mixture of named varieties, so as far as I know black-center has no identity except our non poetic but useful enough “semi-double round deep red BC.” On the other hand, if I were in the business of selling dahlia tubers, I certainly might be tempted to increase a few of the Bishop's kids, give 'em names and turn 'em lose on the market. Hi Fern,

All of the dahlias in that arrangement – except the Honkas – are from one packet of Bishop’s Children seeds I started MANY years ago. (One year was enough, since so many made tubers to store.) Bishop’s Children seeds are still offered for sale and none of the vendors describes them as a mixture of named varieties, so as far as I know black-center has no identity except our non poetic but useful enough “semi-double round deep red BC.”

On the other hand, if I were in the business of selling dahlia tubers, I certainly might be tempted to increase a few of the Bishop’s kids, give ‘em names and turn ‘em lose on the market.

]]> By: Fern R http://leslieland.com/2008/09/free-dahlias-if-you-move-in-the-right-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-1204 Fern R Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:01:08 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=781#comment-1204 Could the red one with the black center be 'Bishop of Canterbury' or part of the Happy Single family? Maybe 'Romeo?' Could the red one with the black center be ‘Bishop of Canterbury’ or part of the Happy Single family? Maybe ‘Romeo?’

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