On 25 Oct, 11:55, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-10-24 20:03:13 +0100, "rupert" said:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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David, it's getting an awful battering today but 'your' Dahlia excelsa
is still flowering in three different places in the garden. *It looks
absolutely wonderful and the colour is as bright and zinging as always..
Poor thing has definitely been rather tattered by autumn winds but it
battles on valiantly. *What a great plant! *I do hope you're
propagating loads of it! *;-) *The Dahlia imperialis has grown to an
enormous height in the garden but shows no sign of flowering and I very
much doubt it will now. *Have you grown that one outside this year?
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Sacha
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It is a super plant and I can certainly say it's not shy to flower up
here in the North, unlike D. imperialis. On the advice of the Crug crew
I reduced the number of stems to 4 early in the season and stripped all
the side shoots *and I now have what looks like a perennial bamboo with
a proliferation of jolly (common as muck) flowers at a height of 4
metres. It has to be one of the easiest plants to propagate and given
the right conditions could almost be classified as a pernicious weed.
:-) *A superb plant!
The other really good one for colour, though not as long-flowering,
quite, is D.Engelhardt's Matador. This has lovely dark leaves and the
flowers are very striking against them. *However, I noticed this
morning that 'the Bishop' is still going with one flower left on it!
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Glad to hear the dahlia is going strong Sacha.
I am hoping that I can get 2 dahlias into the RHS trials next year ,
they are
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...eAbacusSol.jpg
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...emililac02.jpg
The last of the 2 is the one with the great young foliage
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...afoliage01.jpg
Also they are probablt going to have 2 tree dahlias to try in the
gardens
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...eetallview.jpg
which has flowers op to 9 inches across and grows to 8ft and more
also
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...glePeach01.jpg.
One I hope is going to reapear next season is a sport that has only
flowered in the last 10 days.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/DSCF1902.jpg
It is only 2ft or so tall, but looks good even after the gales and
driving rain we had the last couple of days. This picture was taken
after all that weather.
David Hill