18/10/2025
Dahlias from my garden this year that mostly never made it to my grid. Who’s your favorite?
1: Peach Fuzz
2: KA’s Mocha Jo
3: Peaches n Ceeam (mine are much more blush, less orange)
4: Sandia Bliss
5: maybe Hillier Tanunda
6: Levi’s Sunfire
7: KA’s Keltie Rose
8: KA’s Rosie Jo
9: KA’s Cinder Rose
10: Carolina Wageman (all of mine with very few petals, but holding out hope that next year will be better because tells me she’s a good girl 😂)
Next year I need to be better about staking, fertilizing, and I think I can’t avoid spraying. I did manage to get the cucumber beetles relatively under control (with my bare hands ewwww 🤢) but the leaf miners were out of control. Most of these will get the insurance treatment (I might stick some cuttings in the ground and see what happens??) and dig and divide, in the hopes that they survive my love/neglect, and I do really want these to survive and hopefully grow more of each next year! At the moment I usually only have enough to tuck in a bridal bouquet/sweetheart arrangement, but maybe over time as I get better at growing dahlias I’ll be able to multiply more 🤞🤞