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Mountain View Florals, Clifton Creek (2024)

16/11/2023

Just need all those planted dahlias to grow and flower next!
Looking forward to all the blooms once again

07/11/2023

So blessed where we live and with the beauty around us! Wouldn't want to trade!
Tuber planting is well under way now! Excited with seeing quite a few new beauties that are added to my patch this season too, can't wait!

07/11/2023

A promise of hope! This spectacular double rainbow just lit up the sky with color above the dahlia patch after a sun shower! Wow!

01/11/2023

Although I haven't posted an update for some time (opps!), it has been busy behind the scenes over the past few months!

Winter and early spring jobs included:
- digging, dividing, sorting, and storing all the dahlia tubers
- preparation of the garden beds and soil for the next season (adding soil and fertilizers)
- updating the gravel pathways
- maintenance and upgrades in the dahlia patch, including adding new garden decor and lights

And now - it's time to plant the tubers! Planting started today in my patch (November 1)! The tubers in storage have been starting to sprout already, so are very ready to plant out and watch them grow! 🌱

I've also created a Dahlia Specialty Calendar for 2024 (email me if you'd like to order one!), and starting to catalogue my dahlias in a new way using online software!

06/03/2023

In between my hours of study at my desk, I decided to go outside and this time make a flat-lay of about 60-70 different dahlia varieties that are flowering so far (of the 240 or so that are growing) .... 💜💛🩷

02/03/2023

This is a predominantly pretty pink post! 🩷

27/02/2023

Featuring what is flowering today in my patch! They're coming on really well now! In between my studies (studying my specialty in emergency nursing), I reward myself by going outside to wander through my dahlia patch!

24/02/2023

Close up with dahlias 🩷

24/02/2023

Morning sun hitting some blooms yesterday! ☀️🌡 What better way to start than examining and admiring these beauties!

19/02/2023

Garden-fresh vase for the kitchen counter this evening 🩷

19/02/2023

Starting to get some flowers now! Looking forward to lots of blooms in the coming weeks!

17/02/2023

Some lovely pink dahlias out today!
Lollipop - decorative
Winkie Cavalier - decorative
Figurine - waterlily
Iris - pompon

09/02/2023

Just waiting for flowers now! Won't be long ....
Will be really worth all the hard effort to keep it maintained and tidy!

31/01/2023

Getting there! A few buds are about to open, Willo Night and Du Roi Albert will win the race I think!

19/01/2023

Made it home from night shift. What a glorious morning to turn on the sprinklers before going to bed for some sleep ...

12/01/2023

What an adorable photography subject in amongst the flowers!

12/01/2023

Finally getting going ... planted very late because of my injury but nevertheless they are finally growing! Can't wait until they're in bloom!

28/12/2022

While many dahlia growers already have flowers, I'm excited mine are just finally taking off! 🌿 Still a few to poke through the soil though. I check them and they are there just below the soil 🌱😊

22/12/2022

Summery vase straight from the garden 💐

15/12/2022

Waiting patiently as the dahlias start to emerge from the soil, plenty of color in the other gardens to enjoy in the meantime!

14/12/2022

This time last year we already had amazing colors! 🌸🌺
Gardens are running late this year, nevertheless they are planted 🌱
We just need warmer weather. Today we had 10°C weather, over 45 mm of rain, and there is snow on Mt Hotham! Wrong weather for this season!

10/12/2022

'To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.'
~ Audrey Hepburn

10/12/2022

Just a photo dump of flowers on our farm! 🌸🌹🌺

09/12/2022

Just got finished planting all my tubers and I have a few cuttings on the heat mat too 🌱
- Approx 240 tubers planted in my raised beds
- 160 different dahlia cultivars
I had a bit of a cull from last year, replacing cultivars I didn't like or that did not have proper form with cultivars from well-known and shown prefixes.

Here's a list of what I've got in the ground this year - hopefully they all grow and flower so I can catalogue them all properly (name, form, description, height, picture):

AC Zed
African Sunrise
Aitaria Picardy
Alessia
Annes Delight
Araluen Fire
Araluen Leatrice
Boris and Natasha
Boundary Snowflake
Bowen
Bracken Palomino
Bracken Sequel
Breannon
Brett
Brooks Louise
Buckajo Watermelon
Café Au Lait
Christie Dancer
CK Peachy
CK Valmay
Coconut Ice
Coorabell Amanda
Coorabell Astrid
Coorabell Astrid
Coorabell Jessie
Coorabell Laverne
Coorabell Liz
Coorabell Moonglow
Coorabell Noel
Coorabell Seedling 519
Coorabell Zoe
Coral Isle
Cornel
Crighton Honey
Darbro Highland
Derkrad ‘O’
Derma Dainty
Desert Lodge
Devon Astra
Devon Caramello
Devon Cupid
Devon Glen
Devon Jupitor
Devon Saignon
Devon Showtime
Devon Toledo
Devon Valencia
Downham Royal
Du Roi Albert
Duet
Embrace
Emily Jane
Figurine
First Prize
Florelie Jeanette
Florelie Midnight
Florelie Watercolor
Formby Crest
Formby Halo
Formby Karon
Formby Louisa
Formby Pride
Formby Rocket
Formby Stacey
Formby Sunshine
French Kiss
George ‘O’
Glenmarc Challenger
Glenmarc Delia
Glenmarc Kim
Glenmarc Shirley
Golf Ball
Great Sunset
Hamari Gold
Harold ‘C’
Hillview Iceberg
Holland Festival
Iris
Isabel
Ivanetti
Jan Lennon
Joan ‘O’
Kalistas Mystery
Kenora Sunset
Kiara Forgwen
Kims Christie
Kotara
Le Batts Prime
Little Peaches
Lollipop
Longwarry Addison
Maggie Hannaford
Marys Choice
Marys Jomanda
Mi Wong
Nancys Choice
Narrows Kirsten
Ned Kelly
Nicole Lancey
Normandy Frills
Oberon
Orange One
Otway Gem
Peaches
Pinelands Princess
Pink Show
Pure Bliss
Rachel
Rays Gold
Red Primrose
Red Regal
Red Tiger
Rokewood Dawn
Ruskin André
Ryecroft Jan
Ryecroft Laura
Scarsborough 2000
Sheila
Shirley Yeomans
Show N Tell
Stevans Lindy
Stevans Teddy
Stoneleigh Joyce
Susan French
Sylvia Craig Hunter
Tom Wytern
Trevallyn Pride
Tuscany
Unknown x3
Veras Elma
Wakefield Centenary
Warraview Candy
Warraview Porcelain
Willo Borealis
Willo Fairy
Willo Night
Willo Worton
Winkie Anne
Winkie Carnival
Winkie Cavalier
Winkie Cinnamon
Winkie Ingot
Winkie Kestrel
Winkie Lambrusco
Winkie Nugget
Winkie Pat
Winkie Raven
Winkie Rhubarb
Winkie Test Eagle
Winkie Tuscany
Winkie Volcano
Winkie Whopper
Woden Surprise
Worton Willo
WV Honour
WV Pearl
WV Raven
WV Watermelon
Yellow Suffusion
Yellow with Peach Tips

📷 Samsung S22 Ultra (last season)
🌸 Dahlia season: 2022

08/12/2022

This beautiful Coorabell Zoe dahlia photo was selected as the winning photograph in an online Coorabell dahlia photo competition in the Facebook group Dahlia Growers Australia, chosen by the Coorabell man himself Steven Wedd 🌸
Cultivar prize won: Coorabell Amanda, Coorabell Zoe, Coorabell Seedling 519 all of which are now planted in my garden!

📷 Nikon D7000, taken January 2022

08/12/2022

Hi - I'm Rachel! Welcome to my new page!
With the huge interest in dahlia gardening the past two years, and since I don't really use Instragram, I decided it was time to start a page where you can follow my garden adventures this summer and in the future! ☀️
I am just a home-gardener (among other things!), not a commercial flower farm or florist for that matter. I've always loved growing things. My father was a professional landscape gardener in his working life, and it's highly likely that is where my green thumb comes from .... 🌱 As kids, we grew flowers and each had a veggie patch, where we grew all kinds of edible things and had competitions between each other who could grow the biggest and best vegetables!
My professional career is that of a Registered Nurse, specialising in Emergency Nursing next year after thirteen years in the profession. But I've always said, if I wasn't a nurse, I would be a florist or interior decorator. There's definitely a creative and decorative side to me 💐 I enjoy giving away bouquets for others to enjoy, and I love delivering buckets full of flowers to the aged care homes for the elderly to enjoy.
I have experimented with dahlia floral arrangements and dahlia art (Dahli-Art as I call it) and I'm excited to see what I might create this summer!
Our 104-acre country property 'Mountain View Rise' is situated in the scenic hills of East Gippsland, Victoria. We have so much greenery around us once again, having just escaped the fires that devestated our community in 2019.
I had a late start to planting my dahlia garden because of an injury I sustained at the end of October (badly broke my left leg - tibia and fibula, which required surgical intervention: rods, plates and screws, and a lengthy recovery phase), but I am finally getting my dahlia tubers in the ground the first week of December - albeit about four weeks later than I would have liked to got them into the ground.
I'm confident they'll get to growing nicely pretty soon!
Like and follow my page so you get all the updates I post over the coming season!
Happy gardening! 🌻

08/12/2022

A magical photo taken last summer, early January 2022 over our raised garden beds. Summer is my favorite time of the year for so many reasons, warm outdoor weather, gardens and flowers, and some of the best sunsets just to name a few.

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