After some advice, please. After a late start and early slug attacks, dahlia Thomas Edison is finally getting going, foliage about two ft tall but no buds. I had planned to start it off in a pot and move it to the ground, but the drought and rock-hard earth preclude that. Can I keep it in its pot (30cm) and how should I support it?
The net says that Edison grows up to 120cm tall. Stake it any way you can. I use bean sticks and bamboos and jute string. It’s harder to stake well in pots, I find. If you have a handy, sunny fence, consider using the fence to give support. Water a lot.Â
On way to consider it, is that you are developing large tubers for next year. Not all dahlias will do what you wish each year.Â
Creme de Cognac, just out. Not at all the colour expected. Pink streaks 😱 I'm not sure how a dahlia that turns out yellow and pink is associated with Cognac.
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Karma Choc now doing a bit better.
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Aruna has an alarming colour range to do with age of flower and sun exposure, from pink/purple to an interesting dark raspberry. I like a dahlia like Bishop of Llan - a very stable colour that doesn't turn fuchsia.
Beautiful dahlias! Only my Bishop of Canterbury has flowered yet, the rest seem slow out of the blocks and some have been attacked by tortix larvae. I think I might thin out my dahlias, going forward.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".Â
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A very nice crimson red pompom out of a mixed bag from Wilko. The penultimate one is from the Bishop series.