I haven't given up just haven't had the time to check them out. I put mine in those I guess qt. pots about 6-8" across and about the same deep. I have several that have a number of tubers in them and are doing great. Last year I had one in a pot get huge about 6 1/2' tall!

Here is a simple arrangement I made last year in pewter with some grasses shaped around.

Not only beautiful flowers and grasses, but the setting and the reflection in the tabletop are stellar!

Poochella - so glad you popped in and mentioned your dahlia cubits. I looked for it before, but never found it.

Candee - I am still hoping to try your put the tubers in the pot and plant the whole pot technique this year!

Hi Dianne!
I had the dahlia Cubit set to "private" for a couple weeks and then also for another week or so, unbenownst to me C'mon over anytime, and bring your flowers

Hope your growing season is off to a better start than ours. It's so cool and damp, I think I have downey mildew.

Candee, somewhere, sometime today I read of your recent breast cancer diagnosis and just want to wish you well in your treatment. You are so amazing in all you accomplish with both your legs bothering you and now this new hurdle. I hope the treatments are easy as pie and you'll remain an arranging goddess throughout. Hang in there!

I didn't know that!

I'm sorry Candee. The best of luck to you.

Karen

Thanks for your kind thoughts everyone and compliments on the pewter
I am on my second week of radiation and doing pretty well. I am still arranging and working every day.
I took the time to dump those dahlia pots this weekend and many of the tubers had just rotted? There were 6 that were looking good, just not growing so I will try them again next season.

How are your Dahlias Candee? Did those other ones ever come up? I bet most of the are in full bloom now!

I have 12 left and about 6 of them are in bloom. Been a very disappointing year with the drought and horrible 100 temps day after day. I have 2 blossoms on those 6 plants with a few buds on each? What an awful season for plants we are having.

Sorry about your prolonged heatwave. It's hard on human and plant alike.

Sorry to hear about your Dahlias........ that must be very dissapointing for you. Mine are really slow to flower this year too. So far they made one bloom. There is buds but they are taking forever to open!

The heat and humidity have been awful this summer here, too. I've pretty much given up on my garden this year, except for the front yard bed. It's the only thing that still looks good. It's almost all coleus this yer.



Karen

I have a few blooming but quite a pitiful display.
Your front looks fabulous, very green!!!!! Almost forgot what that color looked like as my front yard is brown as a desert.

Green!?! Candee, you were supposed to compliment my beautiful, colorful coleus, not my husband's boring, stupid, green lawn!

Karen

Oops, they just so overwhelmed me that I could not come up with the words LOL! Shame on me! They are luscious!

Finally a few dahlias worth showing from a very pitiful display.

They are stunning Candee! I'm sorry you lost as many as you did, but that means that next summer it will be time to get more which is always exciting!

Those are lovely, Candee. Do you know their names?

I have quite a few blooms finally.

Sorry don't know the name, not much of a name person LOL. But have lost a lot and think that they are dormant and next year those 30 tubers will be vibrant and raring to go!!!

Those were worth the wait Candee. If you or anyone else needs to replace dahlias (or add more) we're working on a dahlia co-op for Fall, with April delivery. Cmail me and I'll get you on the co-op list for updates. The more entrants, the more buying power we have.

I went to the Puget Sound Dahlia Association annual show this weekend. Thousands of dahlias: big ones, little ones, round ones, spidery ones in every color but blue or green. I was OD'd after 3 hours (and taking notes on new ones for 2011) but did remember to take some photos of their arrangement competition for this forum.

They had four themes to inspire people and of course dahlias were included: Northwest Wines, Winter Olympics, November Rains, and At the Beach.
Some examples follow
At the Beach


I don't get the cell phone here. It was defintiely part of the display.



November Rains- couple examples only, because no one wants to think about those just yet ;)

Are those caladium leaves hiding under the Japanese Maple?

Winter Olympics entries. The one with skates is my favorite overall.


Northwest Wines- not too inpiring here, so just a couple.


But baskets of dahlias and many perfect exmples of single dahlias? Ooh boy, I blew out my camera battery twice! So yellow and round: The combo of Tahoma Lael and Pop Willow was very eye-catching.


Stevan's Vanda, I think. Not sure, but I want it- gorgeous bright red.


Pinks- this was the overall basket blue ribbon winner.

Shea's Rainbow basket- triple color splashes all on one dahlia.


As time allows, I'm posting more single views including close ups at the Dahlia Cubit, if you care to see more. There are some fabulous new varieties in the works, not yet out for public growing, but hopefully coming soon.
http://cubits.org/Dahlias/foru...
From teeny tiny dahlias

to big whopper giants