Yes I finally got it. New phone still learning how to use it. Lol Thanks!

Annette. Gorgeous. And congratulations on mastering your phone. I still haven't figured out pictures on my phone after having it for several years. Course I just use my camera. When it rained yesterday many of my peonies headed for the ground also. I am lucky that I only have one full bloom on my dahlias. But that should change shortly. Can hardly wait.

That Fubuki is especially nice!

Thank you, Mary! I appreciate your offer very much, but I was able to locate a source of poppy seeds and had since placed an order for them. I did not know poppies come in many forms and colors. Some of the doubles look just like peonies.

Annette, thank you so much for posting your dahlia pics. I was able to identify a mislabel dahlia that was sent me, your Duet dahlia looks like my mislabel dahlia very much. I agree, your Fubuki dahlia very nice but the others are lovely too.

Thanks you all! I am glad to be of help with the ID. Hopefully you will be able to post pictures some soon. I look forward to seeing everyone else pics.

Duet and Mystery Day are so close that unless you're growing both, they can be so confusing!

Duet:

Mystery Day: Dahlia 'Mystery Day'

My dahlias have been poopy this year. I lost my favorite one. Too wet. They don't seem to be growing. It has been very mild temps and cold nights.

This is all I have to show

It is still early, Jennifer, so maybe they'll do better in August. Mine are unimpressive right now.

A week or so more will fix that.

I now have four in bloom but nothing to rave about in July.

Fubuki Red and White and Kasasagi (both always eager to grow and bloom), Chilson's Pride, and Anna Mari (I call it Anna Marie since it seems like a typo).

You have had Kasasagi for a long time. Is it the same tuber or have you had to replace it from time to time? If not it certainly stores well. Also Fabuki Red and White. Considering the conditions, as you told me, when they arrived we are both lucky to have such good strong plants.

It's the original Kasasagi and you know I save clumps, not separated tubers, so I am most fortunate with that one.

The Fubuki Red and White looked so hopeless for both of us but they did survive my storage, such as it is. This collage shows the dried out, hopeless looking tubers just as I received them from the vendor, and the resulting pretty bloom in 2014.

I don't usually expect much in the way of blooming dahlias until August. This year I have more than I have ever had before at this time, but its still not that many.

Figurine is my latest to bloom, and it is pretty disappointing, I like the pink, but it has no depth and an open center - we will see if later blooms get better.



Kelgai Ann - I love the peony-like form of it, but the insects seem to like it too.

I'm not disappointed in my lack of blooms. The plants themselves are not really growing much. And some are just rotting in the ground

Kelgali Ann is lovely.

Mine aren't as big as I thought they'd be by now. Maybe I'm wishing for too much.

Well about half of by "big" plants got flattened by a severe storm that rolled through here yesterday. High winds and torrential rain, not good. I re-staked them, in the rain, last night. Hopefully there wasn't too much damage to the plants, since the ground was so soft. They sure took a beating, though. The weather is really working againt us this year.

So very sorry to read about that storm, Annette. It had to hurt just to see them flattened. I hope you can salvage everything.

The weather hasn't been friendly to too many of us this year.

Oh Annette I am sorry! Fingers crossed for total recovery

Thanks pirl and jvdubb! At least it was just the Dahlias that got flattened ( and one Bradford Pear tree) and not the house or the greenhouse., I am thankful that the damage was minimal. It could have been so much worse.

Bradford Pears can be so lovely in spring but they are so weak. Ours came down in the storm, Irene, a few years ago. As much as I loved the shade, while working below it in the garden, I kept getting eerie feelings about limbs when I'd hear them creaking. I miss the shade but I'm glad it's gone. I knew if a limb came down and killed me I wouldn't be found until it was dinner time!