Anyone want dahlia fashion monger? I an two other gardeners ordered
After Eight amongst other varieties such as Karma fuchsiama from a
dahlia nursery (NOT Abacus!) back last autumn and carefully potted up
all the tubers when they arrived.
Now they are flowering they have turned out to be NOT Twining After
Eight but fashion monger which has to be the leariest coloured Dahlia
combination of colours imaginable.
I managed to stick a couple in other gardens but still have one
carefully nurtured (gnashing of teeth) in a pot

Told the nursery owner today when we saw him at Chenies and he explained
we weren't the only victims. Seems Fashion monger and Twinings AE came
from the same nursery and were all wrongly labelled. He (the owner)
wasn't best pleased as he had had a run of enquiries about fashion
monger which he had no stock of (apparently)

Anyway not his fault and he was most helpful and conciliatory and will
give us all After Eight replacements next year and oh goody we get to
keep Dahlia FM

This is it in its full glory

http://www.rosecottageplants.co.uk/d...-3-tubers/p490

ps Charlie and his wife was there doing a roaring trade, - told him I
only lived about 2 miles from Chenies so they could have stopped at my
house overnight!
Lovely to meet people you only talk to on the internet.

Janet
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Janet T.
Amersham

On 21/07/2013 16:11, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Anyone want dahlia fashion monger? I an two other gardeners ordered
After Eight amongst other varieties such as Karma fuchsiama from a
dahlia nursery (NOT Abacus!) back last autumn and carefully potted up
all the tubers when they arrived.
Now they are flowering they have turned out to be NOT Twining After
Eight but fashion monger which has to be the leariest coloured Dahlia
combination of colours imaginable.
I managed to stick a couple in other gardens but still have one
carefully nurtured (gnashing of teeth) in a pot

Told the nursery owner today when we saw him at Chenies and he explained
we weren't the only victims. Seems Fashion monger and Twinings AE came
from the same nursery and were all wrongly labelled. He (the owner)
wasn't best pleased as he had had a run of enquiries about fashion
monger which he had no stock of (apparently)

Anyway not his fault and he was most helpful and conciliatory and will
give us all After Eight replacements next year and oh goody we get to
keep Dahlia FM

This is it in its full glory

http://www.rosecottageplants.co.uk/d...-3-tubers/p490

ps Charlie and his wife was there doing a roaring trade, - told him I
only lived about 2 miles from Chenies so they could have stopped at my
house overnight!
Lovely to meet people you only talk to on the internet.

Janet

Nice one, I'd rather that than Twinings after eight, I tried it and lost
it first year,
David

Janet Tweedy wrote:
Now they are flowering they have turned out to be NOT Twining After
Eight but fashion monger which has to be the leariest coloured Dahlia
combination of colours imaginable.

Aww, I just googled them, and the Fashion Monger are much more pretty!

"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
...

ps Charlie and his wife was there doing a roaring trade, - told him I only
lived about 2 miles from Chenies so they could have stopped at my house
overnight!
Lovely to meet people you only talk to on the internet.

Janet
--
Janet T.
Amersham

Nice to meet you too Janet, hope you had a good day at Chenies, it had gone
quiet at the end but I didn't spot you again for a chat, never mind there is
always next year!

--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk

On 22/07/2013 00:09, wrote:
Aww, I just googled them, and the Fashion Monger are much more pretty!


eh? are you joking? ugh, yellow, red a bit of white thrown in and not
much else whereas After eight shines in the evening and the dark leaves
conrast so well with the flowers.

--
Janet T.
Amersham

On 2013-07-24 17:42:07 +0100, Janet Tweedy said:

On 22/07/2013 00:09, wrote:
Aww, I just googled them, and the Fashion Monger are much more pretty!


eh? are you joking? ugh, yellow, red a bit of white thrown in and not
much else whereas After eight shines in the evening and the dark leaves
conrast so well with the flowers.

Depends how you like your Dahlias, I suppose. I wouldn't like Fashion
Monger but love Twyning's After Eight. I'm happy ours has survived and
is just flowering now, though it's not a strong plant. We don't lift
our Dahlias but I might suggest to Ray that we put some fleece over
them this year. Most are in the border of the house's south wall, so
they don't get too wet.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk