Dahlia

Not the best photo but this Dahlia has flowered like crazy this year 😍 #dahlia

So many beautiful blooms 😍😍

They look stunning😍😍

That looks so like one of mine and it’s flowered like crazy this year ❤️❤️❤️

@hkyfvr @gjones thanks ladies 😀 it’s been non-stop flowers for weeks, and non-stop deadheading too 🤣

@pelly there’s some that have excelled and others have struggled 😜 a weird year for all plants 😅

Always welcome. Deadheading is not the most exciting activity. 😆

@KOutdoors thank you Karen 😃 I’m sorry yours is taking its time to flower 😔 is it usually much faster to open? Could be earwigs chomping on it. They’ve been at mine most years!! 🙈

Fabulous display 👍❤️

Fabulous 🫶🏼

@KOutdoors I’m sure it’ll make it through winter 😁 earwigs were a pain when my dahlias were new but they don’t seem to bother them now. Must not like old leaves 😂

@jeatacake @wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom thank you both 😛 the smaller flowered dahlias have all done so well! It’s the big beasts that aren’t very generous with their flower numbers 🙄

#dahlia

Beautiful rich colour. ♥️♥️

Perfection 😍

I think we have the same dahlia😊

@hkyfvr @italydiva thank you both 😀 the dahlia that started my little collection 🫢

@gjones does yours have a name? I don’t know what this is called but have been trying to ID it for ages 🤓

Always welcome. Mine started with a similar one. Can’t have just one dahlia. 😁

The name on the packaging says 'dahlia glow'

@hkyfvr same could be said for most plants 🙈😂

@gjones I’ll have a look at that one, thank you Katy 🙏🏻

So very true 😆🤣

😍 #dahlia

And this is stunning . Lovely colour @kez001uk

Very sultry looking ❤️💜❤️

Beautiful love the colour🤗

I agree with everyone- it’s beautiful ❤️

So rich and beautiful ♥️♥️

@vinny8000 @KOutdoors @pelly @godfreye @gjones @hkyfvr thanks all 😃 this was my first ever dahlia and still a favourite, even though it kicked off a bit of a collection 😅

Very welcome 😍

Lost its petals but still pretty 🤩 #dahlia #dahliaday

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Let it go to see and try the seeds for next year. You won't know what the flowers will look like might get a couple that are keepers. I tried it myself got four plants. Their flowers were red not pink, two had the dark folige like the parent plant.

Still lovely 💛💕

@lesliecole49 haven’t spotted them go like this before. Like mini Strawflowers 😛

@alan1111 I’ll give it a try 😁 it’ll be fun seeing what kind of plants I end up with 😛 sounds like you got a few gooduns!

@hkyfvr I think so too 😛 like a flower had a baby flower 😂

🤣🤪

No keepers this time I'll let them grow this year and give them away or dump them. Given it a go with your favourites, you never know. I got a dahlia this year, it's gorgeous, dahlia colour spectacle, big double and single orange flowers that fade to yellow, looks on fire changes every day, can't get a decent photo giving its thought colour. definitely keeping the seeds.

@alan1111 you lose nothing for trying the seed so it’s a bonus if anything decent grows 😁 the new dahlia sounds stunning! I hope you manage to get a decent photo. I’m intrigued 😋

I've tried and tried phone just can't handle the colour. I'll try again and post soon @kez001uk

@alan1111 reds and oranges are a nightmare to capture properly 🙈

Loads of buds 😍 #dahlia

Such a rich colour. Gorgeous 😍😍

Luv dahlias, stunning, luv the coloue❤️💜

Beautiful colour 👏😍

@hkyfvr I wish my phone did it justice as it’s even darker than the photos show. My first ever dahlia and just gets better each year 💜🖤

@phyl1978 thanks Phyl ☺️ there’s so much to love about dahlias 😍

Love the colour❤️💜❤️💜

@sho47 thanks Shona 😀

@gjones thanks Katy 😃

Your first dahlia is so stunning. The dark colour is awesome. 💜💜🖤

@hkyfvr thank you loads ☺️

For your for dahlia, you've chosen well. It maybe dark but hard to miss

Something likes this as much as I do 😠🐌 #dahlia

@kez001uk beautiful colour Kerry

One of mine is like that 😡

So beautiful Kerry. I caught Doves in my garden pecking apart my treasure flowers. They kept disappearing and now I know where. Hope they leave your lovely dahlia and move on 😟🙏💗

Little devils 🐌 👿

@ericplummer thanks Eric ☺️ it’s my favourite dahlia 😍

@pelly they never pick the rubbish plants to eat 🤬

@hkyfvr oh no 😧 that’s just mean of them 😣 they must love them as much as we do 😛 I did a snail search and got rid of all I found. They have a sneaky habit of hiding under the rim of the pots so now they get swept out with a bamboo cane 🤣

@italydiva I don’t know how they get to them given these must be 2’ from soil level 🤯 they’re crafty, that’s for sure!

#dahlia

Gorgeous ❤💛

#stunningbeauty 💘

Beauty ❤

Wow! That's beautiful ♥️♥️♥️♥️

@novicegardenlover thanks Susan 😊

@shaz831 thank you Shaz ☺️

@solly1961 thanks Mark 😁 it was until the winds snapped it today. Last one of the year too 😐

@midnightgardener thank you Chris 😄

Oh no 😔, I've planted some very late, just in bud with a couple opening now. Hope they don't suffer same fate..

This dahlia has gorgeous colour😍😍 Hate when the wind destroys our flowers and plants. My very late planted dahlias are both blooming now (however they're in my dining room)😁

@solly1961 I look forward to seeing them 😛 hopefully this weather won’t last so they get to bloom in peace! 🤞🏻

#dahlia

Beautiful colour 💜❤🖤

Gorgeous

Every flowers u have @kez001uk is always #stunning and #beautiful ...!!!❤💜❤

Dahlias have perfect geometric forms. Beautiful.

Wow! Such a stunner

That’s lovely Kerry 🐝

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@solly1961 thank you Mark 😊

@Mary200631 thanks Mary ☺️

@shaz831 thank you Shabaaz 😁 so nice of you to say 💚

@maldavis thanks Mark 😄 that’s what I love most about these types 🖤

#dahlia

Gorgeous colour 💜

Sheer perfection! I love the color! And the shape of the petals are incredible!

Fabulous

Great colour 🤩

Beautiful

Yup, I definitely need this!! I love the curling of the petals tooOoOoOooo. Ahh! I think I'm in loveee 😍

Beautiful

Wow!💘😍

Love this colour 😍😍

Beautiful colour 💜😍

Lovely Kerry..... looks like a painting 🤩

Looks like one is growing another 😂 #dahlia

😄😄👸👸👸

Oh wow ❤❤❤

Great colours 💜❤

Wait, what is going on here? lol Does that purple bud open up to that red?

Lovely 😊

I think I had this one last year 😆😆

@anges 😂 all I see is one of those lizards that puff up their neck 🤣

@pelly they go from nothing to all competing to flower first 😅

@jeatacake thanks Jeff 😃 love how deep they are in bud 🖤

@jmlincoln it does 😁 they look as dark as the bud when the sun isn’t on them but look totally different in the light 🤩

@wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom thanks Elaine 😃

#dahlia

@kez001uk miles ahead of mine, jealous!

Oh so near 😊

#peekaboo #iseeyou #bloombabybloom

You have flower already mind are only starting to appear out of the ground

No buds on mine yet but that promises to be a real beauty 💜

@ericplummer it’s just shot up! The rest are way behind this one 😂

@pelly always happy to see this one come back 🖤

@jmlincoln love those hashtags! 😅

@alan1111 it’s grown so much in the past week! All are decent sizes now, even the ones I grew from seed last year have come back well. No others with buds yet though 😜 yours won’t take long to shoot up now they’ve broken the soil 😁

@jeatacake this one is much earlier than usual. Bet yours won’t be far off 😛

One plant, 2 different flowers 😛

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Love the colour! Funny how that happens! On some plants the male will be a smaller, less impressive flower and the female will be the bigger, fuller more impressive flower. I wonder if that's the same with dahlias🤔

Fabulously rich colour 😍

@lesliecole49 strange isn’t it 😛

@gjones thanks Katy 😀 you could be right! Because they’re distinctly different. I’ll have to investigate 😋

@jeatacake thanks Jeff 😃 the flowers are coming through much lighter than earlier on in the season but they’re still holding up well 😊

Looks gorgeous 😍😍

Omg this is beautiful!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍

@gjones they’re such a different colour now, really pink rather than deep burgundy 😜

@lexicon thanks Alex ☺️ they’re normally much darker but have decided to change colour before they rest up for winter 😅

Deep burgundy would be just as amazing I'm sure 😍

@lexicon I do like the darker version 😂 if you scroll back you can see how different it is 😜

Oh they are gorgeous!!!!!

@lexicon no idea if the name or I’d be buying more 😂

The symmetry -just perfect!

#perfectlyformed #symmetry

I love the rich colour of this one!

Simply beautiful! #maroon 💘😍

Perfection!

@janetandjim that’s what I love most about it 😍

@KariSamuel the uniformity is so appealing 😛

@gjones it’s a great colour, starts so dark and lightens a little as it opens 😋

@ShelleySnyder thank you Shelley 😁

@bandicoot thanks James ☺️

Very welcome Kerry!💘😍

@kez001uk I’m a sucker for perfect symmetry. Again, lovely flower.

Love the colour

Beautiful!

@jeatacake thanks Jeff 😊

@staciegokhan thank you Stacie ☺️

Pretty...what’s on the trellis

@wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom thank ya Elaine 😁 it’s 2 clematis but can’t remember which ones 😂

Now that's a beauty. It must be 'Blue Bird' 😍😍😍

Love the dark red colour 🤩

Wow! Talk about beautiful😍😍

@ublaszko thanks Urszula 😄 I best change the encyclopedia link 😛

@jeatacake makes a nice change doesn’t it 😊

@gjones thank you Katy ☺️ it’s a little stunner 🖤

Could b karma Naomi? @kez001uk 😜👌

@Sephy I was looking at yours and thought the exact same thing 😛 thanks Sean 🙏🏻

#dahlia-arabiannight

@wtwitchell6969 I’ll check that one out. Thank you 😊

@gardengirlla their colour makes me want chocolate 😂

Perfection 😍

This is the one that I wanted! I think it's called Blue Bird 😍😍😍 Instead, I ended up with the bright red one. You cursed my dahlia! 😜

Beautiful colour and perfect flower!

@sherrisgarden thanks Sherri 😀

@ublaszko 😂 sorry 🤭

@gjones thank you Katy ☺️ love the uniformity 😍

I think I have the same dahlia this year! 😄 I'm waiting for the first flowerbud to open.

@ublaszko perfect burgundy for you 😍 at least you have buds though 😁 will be open in no time

I have this one and bicolour burgundy/white so waiting yo see which one is which. Beautiful colour! ❤

@ublaszko oh I like the sound of the bicolour one 😋

Bicolour ones are my favourite dahlias 😄

@ublaszko looking forward to seeing the blooms 😛

Gorgeous colour!

@gjones thank you Katy ☺️ and thanks to your soap and water spray tip that you gave me last year I’ve not had a single blackfly issue with it so far 😁

Glad to hear that😀 my dahlias are only in the budding stage so it'll be a little while yet to see how they do this year.

@gjones I bet you have some beauties you. Can’t wait to see them 😁

Fabulous love the colour @kez001uk

@phyl1978 thanks Phyllis 😁

Looks like velvet 💐

@Sussanah it’s flowered constantly for months now and still covered in buds 😍

Gorgeous colour!

@gjones it’s just flourished since your bug remedy. Thank you ☺️

Glad it worked as it's a true beauty😊

Love this Kerry @kez001uk

@vinny3000 thank you Gary 😁 my only dahlia, til next year 🤣🤣🤣

Truly one of the most beautiful garden plants. Mine will flower right up to first hard frost here in 🇮🇪 and because I'm beside the sea that may very well not come until mid- December.

@patburke58 you’re so lucky! Think we are due our first frost tomorrow night 😔 I’d never grown dahlias before this year and only have 2 so far but they are gorgeous! Will definitely be adding to them next year 😁

So many beautiful flowers😍😍

@gjones hard to believe the plant that was tiny and aphid covered has grown into this!

Still going strong

Gorgeous colour 😍

@suerichards they are darker than the photo too 😋 never seem to stop flowering!

Beautiful flower and colour

@gjones and thanks to your advice they are aphid ant free and still flowering repeatedly ❤️

That's good to hear😊

🐜🐜🐜 #wildlifewednesday 😅

Gorgeous @kez001uk

@vinny3000 thank you 😁 looks much better now the aphids are leaving it alone

Perfect 👌

@suerichards the ants agree 😉😉

And is it ever beautiful!!

@gjones in large part because of your advice 😀

@gjones I think you’ve cured my dahlias 💜💜💜

Wonderful, they're looking great!

@gjones thanks to you 😁😁😁

@gjones almost aphid-free thanks to your advice 😋

Wow great colour 😊😊❤❤

That's great! Just keep an eye on it to make sure they don't return

The flower is beautiful by the way😍

@gjones I’ll keep a check every day now I have it under control. Can’t have the little critters back 😆

@midnightgardener thank you ☺️ I hope the others will be as nice 🤞🏼

@gjones the soapy water has helped no end after just one spray 😁😁😁 I’ll repeat again tonight and hopefully will all be gone. Thank you ☺️

Hope it gets rids of them for you. Watch they don't go to another dahlia😊

@gjones looks like it will 🤗 I moved this one far away from the others to avoid contamination 😂

Before it gets a soapy wash tonight 😬

It's going to be a beautiful flower. Hope the soapy wash gets rid of those aphids.😊

@gjones me too, thank you 😁 it’s funny but the other pot of dahlias I have is completely clear of them. Unusual little critters 😂

Looks lovely @kez001uk

Can’t keep the aphids and ants off these 😠

Haven't had a problem with ants on the dahlias but last year had a problem with aphids. None this year yet. Some ants farm aphids so they can milk them for their honeydew. This might be why the ants are there. (I know this sounds odd but you can Google it if you think I'm crazy)😂😁

@gjones oh that’s interesting! So does that mean they aren’t destructive? Or will they destroy the plant eventually?

If the ants are farming the aphids, they'll keep the aphids alive (as a food source). The ants won't hurt the dahlias but the aphids will. If you get rid of the aphids, you'll also get rid of the ants. We just make a home made solution from dawn dish soap, a bit of vinegar and warm water and spray it wherever you see the aphids.

@gjones thank you for the tip, I’ll get some made up tomorrow and hopefully will rid my first ever dahlia of it’s unwelcome squatters 😝