Yes! I am so clueless about gardening that when I picked them out this spring I didn’t even know that was possible, but a talented gardener friend of mine told me I could do that in order to grow them next year. They are not hardy in Vermont, that’s for sure!So pretty!! Do you need to dig up these bulbs to store over the winter?
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I’m proud I grew these dahlias! I’ve only just started adding landscaping to the house this season; I let last summer go by without trying to grow anything in order to see what already existed on the property.
Turns out that there were just some hydrangea bushes, roses in need of rescue and a rhododendron… as well as an abundance of wildflowers and wild blackberry bushes.
These flowers were some of my first I’ve successfully grown from tuber stage; hoping I can store them properly over the winter and grow more next year!
Yeah!! Not sure what varieties you can get over there, but these are the Thomas Edison dinner plate dahlias. They aren’t quite the size of dinner plates but I’m still pleased with how they turned out.Those are stunning!! I love dahlias so much. I was thinking of buying some dahlia tubers this spring and growing some in pots, you've just strengthened my resolve to do that
I honestly don’t know!! I can’t recall the last time I bought flowers at a farmer’s market. I usually pick them up from a nearby farm stand that carries the most beautiful flowers from Rock Meadow Farm (they are on Instagram — so pretty!!)@ilovepugs Dahlias are the best. (Are these the farmer's market staple everywhere that they are here? I closely associate them with the Hmong flower growers that sell at the Pike Place Market and other markets).
At least you've got the water in Vermont. I don't think they'd like anything here. I was just looking up the growing requirements and they're definitely nonsensical in Utah since they need to be kept moist once they start growing. There do appear to be people on our Utah gardening forum who grow them successfully but they say they need to be watered religiously every day here. Oh well - they're on the list if we ever move somewhere else with more moisture! At least we do have lovely drought tolerant plants to play with. I think I bought the rainbow of Agastache (hummingbird mint) - which can go several weeks without any water once established.Yes! I am so clueless about gardening that when I picked them out this spring I didn’t even know that was possible, but a talented gardener friend of mine told me I could do that in order to grow them next year. They are not hardy in Vermont, that’s for sure!
Hello, yes, here I am!Southern hemisphere ladies, how's the season going?!
I'm not sure which on which Delphinium sp. you're referencing, but prairie larkspur (D. carolinianum) is a native prairie species here. 1-3', often whitish to pale blue-purple rather than the deep blue of other Delphiniums. I have one that shows up intermittently but hardly ever flowers in the front garden.I never heard of puccoons but they sure look lovely in the pictures. Are those wild delphiniums native to your area? They are gorgeous and could go well with yellow puccoons, if you can get the latter and keep them going.
Everything looks so luscious and tasty! It's so weird being a half season off, though both N & S hemispheres get to simultaneously lament the summer-winter & winter-summer transitions for similar, but offset, reasons! Glad we're moving into peakHello, yes, here I am!
You'll have to excuse my poor quality photos and overgrown lawn, but summer is well under way and my garden is growing well! It's all in pots because I'm a renter but nevertheless...
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These are some of the cherry tomato plants. Most of them have a bunch of stubbornly green tomatoes, but one of them has been ripening one or two tiny tomatoes every day for me
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^ Snow peas - looks like it's starting to flower too... also, clearly the trellis I made for these plants was not big enough!!
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Dahlia bulbs have survived the winter in the ground and have been flowering!
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Birds eye chilli. They grow INCREDIBLY slowly!!! No signs of flowering, but hopefully I might get some fruit off it by the end of the season...
I sowed a lot of seeds at the start of this season and it's all going really nicely, very rewarding
I know there are several in different regions. Glad you have one native to you!I'm not sure which on which Delphinium sp. you're referencing, but prairie larkspur (D. carolinianum) is a native prairie species here. 1-3', often whitish to pale blue-purple rather than the deep blue of other Delphiniums. I have one that shows up intermittently but hardly ever flowers in the front garden.