Re: dahlia, anemone, and monkshood

Thanks Claire and Marilyn for the lovely discussion in response to my
questions;

I do grow my dahlias from tubers that I take out of the soil in the
fall, and have been successful for years, just keeping them in a dry and
cool dark spot, then putting them in pots under lights, just like what I
grow from seed, in the spring, and put them out, or in the ground only
in June, when I'm (pretty) sure we won't have any more frost;

and some of them do have enough time and sun to grow very well indeed;
one dahlia is very beautifully shaped and colored, many-petaled, not
very large, I can't remember the name, but the color goes from pink to
purple, with cream going to lemon yellow, with petals outlined in darker
color, and I grew it in a large pot this year, and did it blossom it's
head off;

and I agree with Claire that the smaller dahlias are very much more
prolific than the larger;

Thanks for your accolades for having grown a japanese anemone from seed;
of course, out of the ten or so plants that actually grew from the many
more seeds I put in, only the one remains, and even though it should
love where it is, hasn't yet blossomed.  What Marilyn wrote about it
spreading gives me hope.

I had aconitum in the garden of my last house, and loved it; but I
haven't seen it in the catalogs lately, and no greenhouses here carries
it; I will make a concerted effort to find it again, especially because
we have more shady spots than sunny.

Isabelle Hayes

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