Re: Garden Vision/ J. dibia

Actually, it may be the heat, if they are from mountainous areas. It is probably used to cooler summers than Florida can provide. Moisture may also factor in....
Cathy
On Saturday, March 19, 2005, at 02:47 PM, Kitty wrote:

re:  [kinda odd that a

native of Mexico won't thrive in south Florida]
You may have the heat but maybe it has more to do with soil and moisture
differences. Dahlias are from mountainous areas of Central America.

Well, to be fair, some dwarf dahlias do have stems long enough for floral
arrangements - shortshort arrangements. From another view of this, I have
grown the ones they requested and 2 of the 3 colors don't perform as well as
the third color, stems 4 inches at most. That third one - the purple - grew
like gangbusters and if you forget to pinch, yes, you'll have 12 inch stems
on 3 foot plants, more to the size of the arrangements this group makes.
They don't do the short foam brick table decorations. Mainly just vase
combos which don't handle 4 inch stems.

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Garden Vision/ J. dibia


Hey. I like dwarf dahlias. Just wish they'd grow here [kinda odd that a
native of Mexico won't thrive in south Florida]. As I recall from my
daze in SoCal, after 2 or 3 years, they did produce stems long enough
for cutting. And the colors rival all others for variety and vibrance.

On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
Center wrote:

Another thing I have trouble with is the cutting garden spending
$50-60 on
low growing border dahlias. Not so much because they are too short to
use
in arrangements (I've gotten used to that even if I don't like it), but
because they refuse to dig them in the fall. what a waste.


Kitty



Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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