Who wants to look at my dahlias

[geekygardener]

Not sure anyone does but here they are anyway. I love them. My favourite flowers. The cafe au lait make me happy. Something about growing something so big and beautiful makes me feel proud.

Oh wow! LOVE the white one…so pretty! ☺️

Wow! I’ve never grown them before but tried this year. Love yours though and have inspired me to keep going

They are beautiful! I love the first pale pink one.

Thank you. I have a few. I want to cut them for a bouquet but I don’t dare for some reason.

Beautiful! Well done, they're so perfect and satisfying to grow aren't they.

I have Cafe au Lait coming, I potted them up late this year so they're a bit behind. All my singles are flowering though, the bees love them.

They are lovely!

I have just planted some! Very excited seeing your cafe au lait, as I have one! Also a red, and a yellow!

Genuinely gorgeous 🥰

@geekygardener
Beautiful

I have to say they have done better this year because of a bit of neglect. I went on holiday for 10 days and my mum very very occasionally remembered to water them. I came back to them all blooming.

These are stunning! Giving me the temptation to add them to next year's garden wishlist.

Stunning! I have three different varieties out so far! Love them at this time of year!

@PinkSprinkleFairyabsolutely beautiful

I impulse bought a dahlia this summer. It doesn’t seem capable of having more than three flowers at a time, but plenty of buds and just as one dies off another one is opening. I’d never really seen or heard about them before but I absolutely love mine now and will have a ton next year!

I bought a cafe au lait from Sarah Raven fairly recently so waiting for it to flower, plus one other and then found one of the 4 tubers I planted last year but got decimated by slugs has survived and recently appeared.

Really hoping I get some flowers and looking forward to cutting some fingers crossed.

I'm growing dahlias for the first time this year, including Cafe au Lait and a deep red one called Rip City. My DD gave me some tubers and we're having a Dahlia-off.
They are amazing and gorgeous, if thirsty. Mine are in pots with saucers underneath which helps.

Definitely going to do more next year.

they are all beautiful

Oh I love me a nice dahlia! Gorgeous flowers @geekygardener 😍

@FuzzyPuffling I love the sound of a dahlia off. I did have a few in pots disappear when I was away…surprisingly they turned up in my mums garden hahaha

I was worried that title was a euphemism! 😂
They are beautiful, I love them as well. What else have you got?

Beautiful.

I offer mine as sacrifice, without fail something eats them, so I plant them near other plants so they can act as a bodyguard.

Wow, stunning. Love the darker one

Oh they are beautiful!

I had no idea you could grow them in pots! I was obsessed with the dahlias on display in the best dahlia comp at our local agricultural show.

This is the best I could find of the pics.

what tips do you have and how do I look after these for next year?

@Didshejustsaythatoutloud I did have a little laugh to myself thinking the same as you.

I have some echinacea, they are very sensitive I have found. If it’s not the exact right conditions, they quickly lose all their petals and look sad. Last year they didn’t even bloom. Has anyone had any success with them? They are so pretty when they do well.

I have a few different roses. A climbing one is taking over. One rose bush I have blooms for literally 30 seconds a year then looks dead the rest of the time.

I have titan sunflowers and normal ones.
3 different hydrangeas.
lots and lots of different evergreens.
lavender that also takes over.
butterfly bushes.
Lupin and delphiniums.
Alliums
lots of wildflowers I chucked about.

About 2 years ago my littlest dc brought home a morning glory from school. It was meant to be a beanstalk from their jack and the beanstalk topic. It died (I thought) inside so to spare her any upset I disposed of it quickly by throwing it in a wild patch at the bottom of my garden. I don’t often go down there. I did recently. It has grown into a huge carpet and beanstalk up the fence. It has lovely white flowers. Unbelievable.

I have a big veg and fruit patch too. I tired to reduce the number of things that I grow this year as last year it was a task to keep up to it all. Lots overtook other veg and it got attacked by caterpillars. Devastating.

Luckily this year I have some ducks who seem to have kept the slugs and caterpillars at bay. They belong to my behind neighbour but have been coming into my garden to feast on the slugs when they feel like it.

I have lots of spring flowers too. I might remember to share them when it’s that time.