Re: dahlia question

In a message dated 7/25/02 9:14:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bhayes@catskill.net writes:

<< so why haven't they bloomed yet?  I don't even see any blossoms
 starting. >>

I would like to see than answer to that question also, Isabelle.

I always put Dahlias in containers.  I buy new ones every year as the size is 
thing with me. They are never as described and since, I too, grow them in 
containers, I don't want plants five feet high.  I keep looking for shorter 
plants.

There is a quilled form, pink plant named 'Park Princess' which is not the 
best dahlia I have ever grown but it is available everywhere and always 
blooms by the end of July. I always buy this one and it is blooming now.   
For a long time I saved a very small single red that bloomed all summer.  One 
year I did not keep it and have not found a replacement.  

I have had plants that never bloomed here or bloomed so late in the season 
that the buds were frozen before opening.  The soil is too cold to start them 
in the ground and finding that leaving them above the ground worked much 
better, I, too,  keep what I buy each year in pots.  I also start them 
indoors.  It varies, each year.

I have grown Dahlias from seed and had some bloom well and others never set a 
bud.

Maybe there is something about this year that we are not connecting with 
dahlias.  I have a huge pink leafed Caladium that I have been saving over the 
winter for a few years now.  It sprouted around the middle of June and is now 
about six inches high.  Maybe they wait for heat.  This plant, if purchased 
as a started plant would be nearly mature size now.

I think further south of us, there is different experience with Dahlias.  For 
what it is worth, the same thing happens to me from time to time and I do not 
know the reason.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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