I never got around to pulling up my tubers last year, so assuming they all died, I ordered 17 new varieties this year. I just did a walk-around in my garden, and last years dahlias are putting up foliage right now! I live in 6B coastal RI. Good luck to you!
This is the only reason I don't buy dahlias and calla lilies. Although I now have 2 calla lilies that winterize for a long time. Started out as 1 now 2. I think it's calla lily but the foliage looks like elephant ears 🤷. I don't have storage space to store them every year. Oh I live in zone 7/8??🤦♀️🤷🤦♀️ I'm not good with this kinda of things. I live in Canada but 30minutes drive to Bellingham Washington. I get a ton of rain year round. 🤦♀️🤣😂
Watching you for the last 3 years is was turned me into a dahlia fanatic. I have so many tubers stashed away, and ordered so many more that I don't know where I am going to put them all... may we all have such a dilemma!
Ugh! You did it to me again! I’ve already ordered my dahlias for this year and then you pop up with more I’d love to have. It truly is some kind of sickness with this dahlia obsession! 😆
Thanks for this dahlia wish list! I live near Swan Island Dahlias in Oregon and the farm is open from August through September. It’s magical to walk through the fields and a photographer’s dream.
I live about 40 minutes from Swan Island Dahlia Farm and went there four times last year. It is just heaven. I also took a bouquet arranging class which was amazing. The fields are open August through September. I would wait for September because you are going to find the dahlias in full bloom then. I ordered 23 dahlia tubers for there for this spring. 🌸🌸🌸
I live in the Williamette Valley and between Schreiners Irises, Swan Island Dahlias and Adelmans Peonies (and the Hellebore place, oh AND the hosta gardens near Adelmans) we are so spoiled! 🌸
I'm one of those 'just buy a dahlia from a box store' the first time and now this year I set an alarm on my phone to order from Longfield Gardens! I am so looking forward to the growing season. Your channel has given me much education, thank you.
Hi Erin, love your videos for real-life gardeners without acres of space! I grew about 20 dahlia individuals the first time last year. In a row, tilled an fertilized, only dahlias. One of it was waltzing mathilda. She was so beautiful, glaring in the sun. In oktober I unearthed, that she grew many big and healthy tubers with many eyes! So, more in years to come. So exciting :) I'd love to send you one, but shipping to USA is very expensive😕 This year I'll till a new area that was abandoned the last few years and kick my dahlias up to 70 individuals. Seeds make it possible. Dahlias sucked me in! Blooming greetings from germany, zone 7
So many pretty dahlias. I can't wait to see your gardens. I have also ordered from Longfield and have had great luck growing their dahlias. I ordered another 4 yesterday from a new farm. It's so addictive. I dug my dahlias last fall and they produced 200 tubers. I'm adding 55 more this year! I hope they as showy as the picture. :)
Because of this video I bought Zundert Mystery Fox. I saw the photo you shared and had to get it! Then that led me to purchasing A La Mode. Not mad. 100% happy! So three more tubers are added to the many I have/ordered this year. Thank you for sharing your grow-list! With love, from Minnesota.💜
Love what you said at the beginning for folks who aren’t in to buying different varieties but still want to grow Dahlias and the fact that they can get tubers at box stores or local garden centers. I do love to order mine from Longfield and I like that on some of the varieties, you can order a single tuber. I treat my Dahlias as annuals so this makes me feel better about doing that. Also love growing them from seed and the surprise you get! Your Dahlia addiction is real ☺️ but all so beautiful and we enjoy seeing them in your gardens 💚
I grew ball Dahlias last year and I am hooked! I am in TX zone 8 so they may winter over. I cut them down after they were looking pretty tired in September and to my surprise, one of my areas came back and gave me blooms Nov-Dec!! Thank you for sharing!
I'm such a color-oriented person (and also a writer). So I really enjoy your descriptive abilities. Really fun to hear someone else articulate how they perceive colors, especially since we know everyone's visual perceptions are a little different.
Erin, I am so glad I discovered you and your channel...if for no other reason it's the new-to-me discovery of dahlias! We all learn from those who have gone before us and for my Mom and her Mom, we were more rose, tulips, lilies, hydrangeas, caladiums, and fern growers. Not much in the way of dahlias. Am guessing it has something to do with the S.E. soil and climate. Anyway, am enjoying learning about them and have tried a few...this year is my second try at it. Nothing amazing yet, just getting to know that flower. Thanks for the enthusiasm and inspiration you bring for us. Cheers! ❤👍🏻🌺
This was exactly what I needed on a cold January day on the East Coast! My love of Dahlia's started when I found your channel. I'll never have the grand garden you do (your knee's must be in much better shape than mine!) but I will have Dahlias that are the star of the show! Thank you!
Love this program. Thank you so much for such comprehensive review! I have grown Dahlia in the past, kind of fall in love with them again this year. Thanks to you!
Hi Erin! I live in Uruguay, we are in the middle of summer. And I’m starting Dahlias from seed for the first time. I’m doing seeds because I can’t get Dahlia tubers here… Super pumped to see what flowers come up!!
So fun to daydream about this coming growing season via your overview! I had also ordered Melody Allegro and HS Date from Longfield to put in my borders (so it's validating to hear that you've found them to be a quality source--their prices beat everyone else's and free shipping (!!) so I was a little nervous ordering from them, but now I'm so excited to see what will be arriving this spring )--looks like they will be gorgeous!
You put out so much great content, Erin. However, this episode was just fabulous. I found your dahlia choices fantastic, but your comments were even more interesting. I can't wait to see your videos that show these dahlias in bloom.
I'm so excited to order my first tubers! I bought 2 plants last year at a big-box store and they were fine, pretty, but they stayed pretty small. One of them doubled in size for me,; it was a creamy yellow single. I failed to dig up the tubers but will not make that mistake this year!
Hi Erin, You got me started two yrs ago growing dailies I love it. My collection is growing each year I am also looking for Waltzing Matilda a Claus Dalby favorite. The HS series was outstanding for me last year grew in pots along with salvia a huge pollinator magnet.
I have grown the platinum blonde as well and have not had the success of even a handful of flowers. So sad, it is a real looker. I have your same taste, so funny. I love hearing all your dahlia stories, pictures, information and etc. Thanks for cultivating more love of the beautiful dahlias...
Hi Erin, I loved this video. I have been growing dahlias for only two years and I love them. I am staring some from seed this year but, you have convinced me to order more tubers. I can’t wait. Thanks for sharing what you grow and love. 🤗
I ordered labyrinth two years ago because of your dahlia tour video... fast forward to now and she's still my favorite, but I'm growing 24 varieties this year😂
@@stephaniewarren9285 mine made decent tubers, not an amazing amount but enough to grow my supply... enough to turn two plants into 6 or 7 if they come out of storage ok. My stems weren't super long either though. I made lots of mistakes and didn't fertilize the way I should have, which might have been the problem for me.
Erin I love the posters behind you, I cannot read the printing at the bottom when I zoom in. Can I ask where you bought them? Have any of you had pests that you have struggled with when planting dahlias? I was plagued by tarnished plant bug last year and it was awful!
@@bethe5032 I ordered mine from brecks before I learned about farms here that I could have ordered from, luckily it was accurate. All the dahlias I ordered from eden brothers last year were wrong though so I feel your pain!
Great video Erin, as always, love these varieties and now I have to have that apple blossom collarette. I want you to know, I grew Islander last year and I had two. They were 7' tall! in a partly shaded area, so prepare yourself for the height, it towered over all my other dahlias in the same bed. Thank goodness I put it in the middle and not toward the front. GORGEOUS blooms, and yes it's very much going to be that one statement flower in a bouquet, it's also very prolific, which was surprising yet so wonderful! I can not wait to see all these in your garden this year! So exciting!
Thanks for the dahlia rundown- just the thing to warm our gardening hearts in January! I have been enjoying your dahlia videos for the past four months or so, and on your recommendation ordered from Longfield as soon as they started taking orders in December. I ordered several kinds you went over in this video (Mystery Fox, Labyrinth, Milena Fleur, HS Date), and can’t wait to receive them and get them going!
Thanks so much for taking the time to produce this video! Good to get an insight into your taste in dahlias. My personal favorite is the Que Sera, which I simply fell in love with! I am in Minnesota, and my dahlias are in pots on my deck. Tried to find this dahlia in late spring, and the four or five websites I tried were all sold out! I do have it on order, and due to arrive this spring. Can't wait! Can't think of any flower that can match the beauty, and variety of the dahlia!
Thank you Erin for this video!! I started dahlias for the first time last year because of you and Laura and had great success!! I ordered from Longfield and they were fantastic!!! I started my tubers in doors(thanks for that tip) and harden them off in my little greenhouse. It was because of you I had a great first year. The only mishap I had was I ordered too many tall ones and not enough to balance different heights and interest. This video was helpful to not just fall in love with the pictures but to pay attention to the dimensions. Thank you again for my addiction!!!!!!!
I love the single faced dahlias for the pollinators. I grew dahlia bishop's and they were littered with bees and butterflies. Also the bronze foliage was amazing.
😝 we have the same taste in flowers! I hunted down HS Date this year just because I’ve seen it in your garden for years and loved it. I’ve ordered almost 100 new varieties this year too and I can’t stop! 😖
Hello! Thank you for rhis video😊I only grew dahlias once and in white. After seeing your selection with all those beautiful colors, I decided to give it another try. Thanks!
Erin...I've been waiting for this video. Last year you encouraged me to try growing two varieties (big box store purchased so I have no clue what I'm growing) and this year I ordered a package of seven varieties. Yes, Dahlias have a way of 'sucking you in'. My wife and I are hooked and I can't wait to see how this package of Dahlias does this year!
I wish I had space for dahlias. They are so gorgeous. Unfortunately, in my apartment garden, tomatoes usually get first dibs on space. But I have life goals to have dahlias someday lol
Definitely go visit Swan Island in the summer if you get a chance. They have acres of beautiful dahlias and you can also purchase freshly cut dahlias from them for a reasonable price 😊
I can send you a spare waltzing matilda tuber from last year. Hopefully it’s viable, and most importantly, labeled correctly. Anyway thanks for all the dahlia information. We found you’re channel through Dahlias and you helped us through the Big “C” and the winter blues!
You definitely need to plan a trip to Swan Island Dahlias - but bring yourself some valium because it is dahlia overload and every year I about come out of my skin. I'm fortunate enough to live in the Willamette Valley and it is an annual must!
Erin, I'd love a video about growing things from seed. Seeds are significantly cheaper than full sized nursery plants, but I've been afraid to try. Until this spring. I've started purchasing grow lights and shelves to grow seed indoors, but I'm still scared. I love your channel. Your videos are informative without the annoying overly perky delivery like some... I've learned so much watching your videos. Thanks.
Hello Erin, from Central Wisconsin! Thanks for sharing all your dahlia knowledge, you gave me the courage to try growing them for the first time a couple of years ago. I placed an order from a company that shall remain nameless, not any that I got were what I ordered. They were still beautiful but I wanted what I ordered, they made good on it and I re-ordered the following year and again, was sadly disappointed. So I went to Longfield last year and was extremely happy with the tubers and they performed amazing! Melody Swing was one of them, it was the first to bloom and went strong all season. I just placed another order a couple days ago and have plans to double the size of the bed I put in last spring. I picked up some Penhill Watermelon at Walmart after seeing yours and they blew me away, easily 7 feet tall or more and were very prolific, tons of blooms all season. Needless to say, I'm addicted.. Thank you!!! :)
You may have solved a mystery for me. I garden in SE South Dakota, USDA Zone 4b/5a. A flower that was supposed to be Penhill Watermelon, wasn't. I was having the hardest time finding out what it was. I think it might be Milena Fleur. Only thing is, mine is iridescent, it sparkles, if that makes any sense. It's gorgeous. Can remember if I got any tubers from it, but we'll find out once everything is planted and blooms. Wish me luck!
OMG you are in Wisconsin?! I had no idea!!! I’ve been subscribed for awhile and watching your videos for awhile and I just am learning this now. 😅 We are in Sun Prairie so I am hoping we are not terribly far away from you! If you end up selling any of your dahlia tubers I would love to have a chance at them if you are close! This will be my first year trying them out.
Good point about yellow flowers! Yellow is the first color our eye sees (which is why school buses are yellow), so the paler yellows are more harmonious in the garden color palette! 🌼
Darn you for making this video! Lol 😆 We had Longfield gardens website open as we watched and we’re finding all kinds of good one you picked and some other ones we need to grow! Dahlias shopping is almost as bad as seed shopping!
I love your Dalia collection, last year I grew Dalia from seeds and I was amazed when the produced flowers. I subscribe your channel. Beautiful god bless you.
I had a terrible experience with ordering tubers from Eden Brothers last season. They all came broken necked and desicated. They don't guarantee their tubers, as they wouldn't respond to my emails about my experience. My Swan Island Dahlias came beautiful and healthy. I am sticking with whatever they sell!
I love dahlias. I could get carried away buying them . I have a couple that are taller than me! I sometimes think of getting short ones to fill in the flower beds. The problem is, there are just too many beautiful ones! 😀
On a whim and because they were reduced I ordered some single dahlias last year. They were short(ish) and manageable and one had dark foliage and the prettiest ombré petals, sort of cream to pink. They don’t look like anything I ordered 😆 so I don’t really know what type it was. But I just loved it. No desire to get deep into dahlias, but hopefully this one survived!
Last year, I ordered and planted my first dahlias. Lessons learned: 1. Staking is a pain. 2. Dig tubers (don’t need to here in my zone 8 garden). Find more suitable location next year. 3. Order more but choose only varieties that are 36 inches or less.
I ordered some from swan dahlia farm and I can’t wait till they arrive. I don’t even remember what I ordered anymore lol so it’s going to be a surprise!
Waltzing Matilda is a stunner and very prolific. It’s not hard to get a hold of in Europe (Sweden). Here other varieties are hard or even impossible to get, even when you’re starting to order almost a year beforehand. Last year a cutting of Appleblossom cost about 100 dollars at an auctionsite here. I would send you Waltzing Matilda but it cost to much and is hard with all the rules for export and import to and from USA to Europe with plants. /Erica (writing from my cats RUclips account 😂🙈😊)
Omg, the Thomas edison.....so good!! I was my best performer last year!! Definitely a staple dahlia from now on with me lol. New one I'm trying this year is "lilac time'. Its a sport of Thomas edison.
I ordered Peaches N Cream for the same reason. 😂 It’s also hard to find, from what I’ve seen, so when I happened to hop on a sale and see it still available, I snagged it. It does look gorgeous!
I ordered several last yr, my first time growing the tall variety. I ordered 8 from Swan Island, 6 were not what I ordered. I also ordered some from American Meadows, they replaced some that came looking shriveled up and they came within a couple days. I'd also like to tell any newbies to the tall Dahlia, PLEASE take stacking seriously, so wish I had.
Not sure if you have ever ordered from White Flower Farm in Litchfield CT. I have gotten bulbs and plants from them and have been very happy with everything I received. bulbs are very big and healthy. Plants are very good sized and adapt readily. They have the dahlia that you were looking for.....Dahlia Waltzing Mathilda.
Can you do a video on how you stake your Dahlias? When you do Garden Tours, I never see any staking. Staking is an area that I need more information about. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
I tried growing one dahlia last year, but didn't get much in return. I thought I'd try to keep the tubers, but let them freeze in my garage so into the trash they went. If I do try again, I'll likely try a ball-type variety. Then I can cut them for bouquets.
There are 2 different " Peaches and Cream. " There is the spelling above and then there is Peaches N Cream. Which is the one I like better. You may want to look at them individually. Also Peaches and Dreams. :) Beautiful collection. I'm getting a few of these this year as well.
I have dahlia fever this year because I finally own my own home and can plant all the things lol. I probably ordered way too many but I'm so excited about it!! I pre-ordered from Edenbrothers and from longfield gardens.
Love the video and all your information. I grew some tubers from a big box store last year and they were beautiful. This year I ordered a few and will attempt to dig up and store over the winter but that is what stopped me from growing in the past. I'm so worried they will dry out and die over the winter or I'll water log them and kill them. Storage is what intimidates me. Thank you for another great and informative video.
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Hi Erin, I grew Waltzing Mathilda last year (New England area). If the tubers winter over I'd be happy to send you one. Fingers crossed! Linda
I never got around to pulling up my tubers last year, so assuming they all died, I ordered 17 new varieties this year. I just did a walk-around in my garden, and last years dahlias are putting up foliage right now! I live in 6B coastal RI. Good luck to you!
This is the only reason I don't buy dahlias and calla lilies. Although I now have 2 calla lilies that winterize for a long time. Started out as 1 now 2. I think it's calla lily but the foliage looks like elephant ears 🤷. I don't have storage space to store them every year. Oh I live in zone 7/8??🤦♀️🤷🤦♀️ I'm not good with this kinda of things. I live in Canada but 30minutes drive to Bellingham Washington. I get a ton of rain year round. 🤦♀️🤣😂
I've never grown dahlias, but 5 minutes in and I've placed an order! 🤣 I can't wait to plant them and watch them grow with our daughter. ❤
Same!
Watching you for the last 3 years is was turned me into a dahlia fanatic. I have so many tubers stashed away, and ordered so many more that I don't know where I am going to put them all... may we all have such a dilemma!
The same here 😁
Ugh! You did it to me again! I’ve already ordered my dahlias for this year and then you pop up with more I’d love to have. It truly is some kind of sickness with this dahlia obsession! 😆
Thanks for this dahlia wish list! I live near Swan Island Dahlias in Oregon and the farm is open from August through September. It’s magical to walk through the fields and a photographer’s dream.
I live about 40 minutes from Swan Island Dahlia Farm and went there four times last year. It is just heaven. I also took a bouquet arranging class which was amazing. The fields are open August through September. I would wait for September because you are going to find the dahlias in full bloom then. I ordered 23 dahlia tubers for there for this spring. 🌸🌸🌸
I live in the Williamette Valley and between Schreiners Irises, Swan Island Dahlias and Adelmans Peonies (and the Hellebore place, oh AND the hosta gardens near Adelmans) we are so spoiled! 🌸
I'm one of those 'just buy a dahlia from a box store' the first time and now this year I set an alarm on my phone to order from Longfield Gardens! I am so looking forward to the growing season. Your channel has given me much education, thank you.
Hi Erin, love your videos for real-life gardeners without acres of space!
I grew about 20 dahlia individuals the first time last year. In a row, tilled an fertilized, only dahlias.
One of it was waltzing mathilda. She was so beautiful, glaring in the sun. In oktober I unearthed, that she grew many big and healthy tubers with many eyes! So, more in years to come. So exciting :)
I'd love to send you one, but shipping to USA is very expensive😕
This year I'll till a new area that was abandoned the last few years and kick my dahlias up to 70 individuals. Seeds make it possible.
Dahlias sucked me in!
Blooming greetings from germany, zone 7
So many pretty dahlias. I can't wait to see your gardens. I have also ordered from Longfield and have had great luck growing their dahlias. I ordered another 4 yesterday from a new farm. It's so addictive. I dug my dahlias last fall and they produced 200 tubers. I'm adding 55 more this year! I hope they as showy as the picture. :)
Because of this video I bought Zundert Mystery Fox. I saw the photo you shared and had to get it! Then that led me to purchasing A La Mode. Not mad. 100% happy! So three more tubers are added to the many I have/ordered this year.
Thank you for sharing your grow-list!
With love, from Minnesota.💜
Love what you said at the beginning for folks who aren’t in to buying different varieties but still want to grow Dahlias and the fact that they can get tubers at box stores or local garden centers. I do love to order mine from Longfield and I like that on some of the varieties, you can order a single tuber. I treat my Dahlias as annuals so this makes me feel better about doing that. Also love growing them from seed and the surprise you get!
Your Dahlia addiction is real ☺️ but all so beautiful and we enjoy seeing them in your gardens 💚
I grew ball Dahlias last year and I am hooked! I am in TX zone 8 so they may winter over. I cut them down after they were looking pretty tired in September and to my surprise, one of my areas came back and gave me blooms Nov-Dec!! Thank you for sharing!
You grew 100 different dahlias last year? Wow! I can't wait to see this year's picks look like🥰
I'm such a color-oriented person (and also a writer). So I really enjoy your descriptive abilities. Really fun to hear someone else articulate how they perceive colors, especially since we know everyone's visual perceptions are a little different.
Thank you for taking time to talk about Dahlias, I love ur descriptions and tips.
Erin, I am so glad I discovered you and your channel...if for no other reason it's the new-to-me discovery of dahlias! We all learn from those who have gone before us and for my Mom and her Mom, we were more rose, tulips, lilies, hydrangeas, caladiums, and fern growers. Not much in the way of dahlias. Am guessing it has something to do with the S.E. soil and climate. Anyway, am enjoying learning about them and have tried a few...this year is my second try at it. Nothing amazing yet, just getting to know that flower. Thanks for the enthusiasm and inspiration you bring for us. Cheers! ❤👍🏻🌺
This was exactly what I needed on a cold January day on the East Coast! My love of Dahlia's started when I found your channel. I'll never have the grand garden you do (your knee's must be in much better shape than mine!) but I will have Dahlias that are the star of the show! Thank you!
Love this program. Thank you so much for such comprehensive review! I have grown Dahlia in the past, kind of fall in love with them again this year. Thanks to you!
Love that you walked through your full list! Can’t wait to see them!
I started growing Dahlias last year, and I wasn't even sure what they were. I was totally in love!
Gorgeous! I already got 8 now! So hard to choose and pair down!!! 😏 Thanks Erin, if my husband will complain, I'll tell him to talk to you🤣🤣🤣
Hi Erin! I live in Uruguay, we are in the middle of summer. And I’m starting Dahlias from seed for the first time. I’m doing seeds because I can’t get Dahlia tubers here…
Super pumped to see what flowers come up!!
I really did enjoy growing them from seed last year. A fun surprise to see what emerged.
So fun to daydream about this coming growing season via your overview! I had also ordered Melody Allegro and HS Date from Longfield to put in my borders (so it's validating to hear that you've found them to be a quality source--their prices beat everyone else's and free shipping (!!) so I was a little nervous ordering from them, but now I'm so excited to see what will be arriving this spring )--looks like they will be gorgeous!
You put out so much great content, Erin. However, this episode was just fabulous. I found your dahlia choices fantastic, but your comments were even more interesting. I can't wait to see your videos that show these dahlias in bloom.
I'm so excited to order my first tubers! I bought 2 plants last year at a big-box store and they were fine, pretty, but they stayed pretty small. One of them doubled in size for me,; it was a creamy yellow single. I failed to dig up the tubers but will not make that mistake this year!
Oh my , love the peachy yellows , thanks for sharing, -27 here in Quebec Canada today 30cm of snow on the way for Monday .
Thanks for all your good content, very informative. I don't even grow these and it's still interesting to watch the video, great job.
Hi Erin, You got me started two yrs ago growing dailies I love it. My collection is growing each year I am also looking for Waltzing Matilda a Claus Dalby favorite. The HS series was outstanding for me last year grew in pots along with salvia a huge pollinator magnet.
Started my Bishops Children dahlia seeds yesterday. Here's to a successful gardening year.
OMG!!! The Mocha Maya and Champagne!!! Def adding those to the list!!!
Nicely done, Erin! Definitely having dahlia dreams tonight!
I have grown the platinum blonde as well and have not had the success of even a handful of flowers. So sad, it is a real looker. I have your same taste, so funny. I love hearing all your dahlia stories, pictures, information and etc. Thanks for cultivating more love of the beautiful dahlias...
Hi Erin, I loved this video. I have been growing dahlias for only two years and I love them. I am staring some from seed this year but, you have convinced me to order more tubers. I can’t wait. Thanks for sharing what you grow and love. 🤗
I ordered labyrinth two years ago because of your dahlia tour video... fast forward to now and she's still my favorite, but I'm growing 24 varieties this year😂
I thought labyrinth would be my favorite too , but mine did not produce very long cutting stems or extra tubers. Is that typical?
@@stephaniewarren9285 mine made decent tubers, not an amazing amount but enough to grow my supply... enough to turn two plants into 6 or 7 if they come out of storage ok. My stems weren't super long either though. I made lots of mistakes and didn't fertilize the way I should have, which might have been the problem for me.
Erin I love the posters behind you, I cannot read the printing at the bottom when I zoom in. Can I ask where you bought them? Have any of you had pests that you have struggled with when planting dahlias? I was plagued by tarnished plant bug last year and it was awful!
I’ve ordered it 2x and not gotten what I ordered both times. I gave up even though it’s one of my favorites
@@bethe5032 I ordered mine from brecks before I learned about farms here that I could have ordered from, luckily it was accurate. All the dahlias I ordered from eden brothers last year were wrong though so I feel your pain!
Thank you so much for the dahlia addict website!! I finally found a dahlia I've been trying to find for years😍🌼
Great video Erin, as always, love these varieties and now I have to have that apple blossom collarette. I want you to know, I grew Islander last year and I had two. They were 7' tall! in a partly shaded area, so prepare yourself for the height, it towered over all my other dahlias in the same bed. Thank goodness I put it in the middle and not toward the front. GORGEOUS blooms, and yes it's very much going to be that one statement flower in a bouquet, it's also very prolific, which was surprising yet so wonderful! I can not wait to see all these in your garden this year! So exciting!
I ordered 15 new to me varieties this year. Looking forward to seeing everyone in action this summer.
Thanks for the dahlia rundown- just the thing to warm our gardening hearts in January! I have been enjoying your dahlia videos for the past four months or so, and on your recommendation ordered from Longfield as soon as they started taking orders in December. I ordered several kinds you went over in this video (Mystery Fox, Labyrinth, Milena Fleur, HS Date), and can’t wait to receive them and get them going!
Thanks so much for taking the time to produce this video! Good to get an insight into your taste in dahlias. My personal favorite is the Que Sera, which I simply fell in love with! I am in Minnesota, and my dahlias are in pots on my deck. Tried to find this dahlia in late spring, and the four or five websites I tried were all sold out! I do have it on order, and due to arrive this spring. Can't wait! Can't think of any flower that can match the beauty, and variety of the dahlia!
I can't wait to see them in your garden. So many of them look the same in your list but in the garden you can see a difference.
Thank you Erin for this video!! I started dahlias for the first time last year because of you and Laura and had great success!! I ordered from Longfield and they were fantastic!!! I started my tubers in doors(thanks for that tip) and harden them off in my little greenhouse. It was because of you I had a great first year. The only mishap I had was I ordered too many tall ones and not enough to balance different heights and interest. This video was helpful to not just fall in love with the pictures but to pay attention to the dimensions. Thank you again for my addiction!!!!!!!
I love the single faced dahlias for the pollinators. I grew dahlia bishop's and they were littered with bees and butterflies. Also the bronze foliage was amazing.
Love them all, specially the ones in salmon/peach shades. Lucky you to have good growing conditions for them.
😝 we have the same taste in flowers! I hunted down HS Date this year just because I’ve seen it in your garden for years and loved it. I’ve ordered almost 100 new varieties this year too and I can’t stop! 😖
Hello! Thank you for rhis video😊I only grew dahlias once and in white. After seeing your selection with all those beautiful colors, I decided to give it another try. Thanks!
Wow you have some beautiful dahlias!! I love the Crichton honey one!! Can’t wait for spring!!🌸🌸
Erin...I've been waiting for this video. Last year you encouraged me to try growing two varieties (big box store purchased so I have no clue what I'm growing) and this year I ordered a package of seven varieties. Yes, Dahlias have a way of 'sucking you in'. My wife and I are hooked and I can't wait to see how this package of Dahlias does this year!
Thank you so much for sharing. This was so enjoyable and informative 💐❤️ can’t wait to see them in your garden this year
Time to go Dahlia shopping!!!!!!!!!
White Flower Farm has it in stock! Waltzing Matilda
The answer to the question we’ve all been wondering!! 😍😍😍🌸🌸🌸🌸
Platinum Blonde at the top of my list this year! This video was super informative. Thank you!
Beautiful dahlias, Erin. Hope they all do well for you this year.
I wish I had space for dahlias. They are so gorgeous. Unfortunately, in my apartment garden, tomatoes usually get first dibs on space. But I have life goals to have dahlias someday lol
Definitely go visit Swan Island in the summer if you get a chance. They have acres of beautiful dahlias and you can also purchase freshly cut dahlias from them for a reasonable price 😊
I can send you a spare waltzing matilda tuber from last year. Hopefully it’s viable, and most importantly, labeled correctly. Anyway thanks for all the dahlia information. We found you’re channel through Dahlias and you helped us through the Big “C” and the winter blues!
Islander is my favorite dinner plate! You won’t regret it! I have Bracken Rose coming and am stoked!
You definitely need to plan a trip to Swan Island Dahlias - but bring yourself some valium because it is dahlia overload and every year I about come out of my skin. I'm fortunate enough to live in the Willamette Valley and it is an annual must!
Those are gorgeous! All of them. I always eww and ahh over your garden. Dahlia is possibly my favorite flower. Wow.
Erin, I'd love a video about growing things from seed. Seeds are significantly cheaper than full sized nursery plants, but I've been afraid to try. Until this spring. I've started purchasing grow lights and shelves to grow seed indoors, but I'm still scared. I love your channel. Your videos are informative without the annoying overly perky delivery like some... I've learned so much watching your videos. Thanks.
She is the best!!!
You inspired me to grow dahlia's a couple of years ago, Thomas Edison is my true love now. Thanks for all your videos.
Hello Erin, from Central Wisconsin! Thanks for sharing all your dahlia knowledge, you gave me the courage to try growing them for the first time a couple of years ago. I placed an order from a company that shall remain nameless, not any that I got were what I ordered. They were still beautiful but I wanted what I ordered, they made good on it and I re-ordered the following year and again, was sadly disappointed. So I went to Longfield last year and was extremely happy with the tubers and they performed amazing! Melody Swing was one of them, it was the first to bloom and went strong all season. I just placed another order a couple days ago and have plans to double the size of the bed I put in last spring. I picked up some Penhill Watermelon at Walmart after seeing yours and they blew me away, easily 7 feet tall or more and were very prolific, tons of blooms all season. Needless to say, I'm addicted.. Thank you!!! :)
You may have solved a mystery for me. I garden in SE South Dakota, USDA Zone 4b/5a. A flower that was supposed to be Penhill Watermelon, wasn't. I was having the hardest time finding out what it was. I think it might be Milena Fleur. Only thing is, mine is iridescent, it sparkles, if that makes any sense. It's gorgeous. Can remember if I got any tubers from it, but we'll find out once everything is planted and blooms. Wish me luck!
OMG you are in Wisconsin?! I had no idea!!! I’ve been subscribed for awhile and watching your videos for awhile and I just am learning this now. 😅 We are in Sun Prairie so I am hoping we are not terribly far away from you! If you end up selling any of your dahlia tubers I would love to have a chance at them if you are close! This will be my first year trying them out.
Finally able to order crichton honey thanks to your showing it to me. So excited! Thanks, Erin!
Great video! I’d love to grow some of these one day. Also, you’ve got my hooked on The Botanist gin and Fever Tree tonic. So good!
Good point about yellow flowers! Yellow is the first color our eye sees (which is why school buses are yellow), so the paler yellows are more harmonious in the garden color palette! 🌼
Ah, I love background on color theory. My brain inherently understands it, but it's nice to have insight into the science of it as well.
@@TheImpatientGardener Haha, I am a retired teacher 😁 it’s definitely one of those things where you know it, but there’s a legit reason!!
Darn you for making this video! Lol 😆 We had Longfield gardens website open as we watched and we’re finding all kinds of good one you picked and some other ones we need to grow! Dahlias shopping is almost as bad as seed shopping!
It's way worse than seed shopping for me. Even looking up all the stats for all the dahlias for this video I kept finding more I wanted to order.
I grew Thomas Edison last year. Love it!
One of my favorite is Evanah, night silence, great silence and salmon runner 🥰
Never grown dahlias before and am really looking forward to it.
I love your Dalia collection, last year I grew Dalia from seeds and I was amazed when the produced flowers.
I subscribe your channel. Beautiful god bless you.
Great share. Have a wonderful weekend
I grew Melody Pink Allegro last summer, and it was beautiful! Four inch flowers that are almost fluorescent. Loved it!
So great to hear. I can’t wait!
I had a terrible experience with ordering tubers from Eden Brothers last season. They all came broken necked and desicated. They don't guarantee their tubers, as they wouldn't respond to my emails about my experience. My Swan Island Dahlias came beautiful and healthy. I am sticking with whatever they sell!
I love dahlias. I could get carried away buying them . I have a couple that are taller than me! I sometimes think of getting short ones to fill in the flower beds. The problem is, there are just too many beautiful ones! 😀
Beautiful, beautiful flowers. Every single one is what I want but I don’t have the planting space. Pots yes, ground space no!!
On a whim and because they were reduced I ordered some single dahlias last year. They were short(ish) and manageable and one had dark foliage and the prettiest ombré petals, sort of cream to pink. They don’t look like anything I ordered 😆 so I don’t really know what type it was. But I just loved it. No desire to get deep into dahlias, but hopefully this one survived!
You have some of the most beautiful dahlias.
Last year, I ordered and planted my first dahlias. Lessons learned: 1. Staking is a pain. 2. Dig tubers (don’t need to here in my zone 8 garden). Find more suitable location next year. 3. Order more but choose only varieties that are 36 inches or less.
Bloomquist is so beautiful
Erin, thank you for this great information.
I agree
I ordered some from swan dahlia farm and I can’t wait till they arrive. I don’t even remember what I ordered anymore lol so it’s going to be a surprise!
Waltzing Matilda is a stunner and very prolific. It’s not hard to get a hold of in Europe (Sweden). Here other varieties are hard or even impossible to get, even when you’re starting to order almost a year beforehand. Last year a cutting of Appleblossom cost about 100 dollars at an auctionsite here. I would send you Waltzing Matilda but it cost to much and is hard with all the rules for export and import to and from USA to Europe with plants. /Erica (writing from my cats RUclips account 😂🙈😊)
We have a similar taste. I ordered so many like yours. I left Appleblosom for next year, and few others.
Omg, the Thomas edison.....so good!! I was my best performer last year!! Definitely a staple dahlia from now on with me lol. New one I'm trying this year is "lilac time'. Its a sport of Thomas edison.
Very helpful. Beautiful selection.
I ordered Peaches N Cream for the same reason. 😂 It’s also hard to find, from what I’ve seen, so when I happened to hop on a sale and see it still available, I snagged it. It does look gorgeous!
Growing some Happy single Dahlias ☺
"Tricolor Delegria"*
Can't wait! Thanks for the videos!
Labyrinth is so beautiful
I ordered several last yr, my first time growing the tall variety. I ordered 8 from Swan Island, 6 were not what I ordered. I also ordered some from American Meadows, they replaced some that came looking shriveled up and they came within a couple days. I'd also like to tell any newbies to the tall Dahlia, PLEASE take stacking seriously, so wish I had.
Not sure if you have ever ordered from White Flower Farm in Litchfield CT. I have gotten bulbs and plants from them and have been very happy with everything I received. bulbs are very big and healthy. Plants are very good sized and adapt readily. They have the dahlia that you were looking for.....Dahlia Waltzing Mathilda.
Can you do a video on how you stake your Dahlias? When you do Garden Tours, I never see any staking. Staking is an area that I need more information about. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thanks Erin, I have ordered several dahlias and now I think I’m going to be looking for a few more😵💫❄️💚🙃
I tried growing one dahlia last year, but didn't get much in return. I thought I'd try to keep the tubers, but let them freeze in my garage so into the trash they went.
If I do try again, I'll likely try a ball-type variety. Then I can cut them for bouquets.
So excited for Dahlias! Hopefully not a bad Japanese Beetle year! 🪲
There are 2 different " Peaches and Cream. " There is the spelling above and then there is Peaches N Cream. Which is the one I like better. You may want to look at them individually. Also Peaches and Dreams. :) Beautiful collection. I'm getting a few of these this year as well.
I have dahlia fever this year because I finally own my own home and can plant all the things lol. I probably ordered way too many but I'm so excited about it!! I pre-ordered from Edenbrothers and from longfield gardens.
Love the video and all your information. I grew some tubers from a big box store last year and they were beautiful. This year I ordered a few and will attempt to dig up and store over the winter but that is what stopped me from growing in the past. I'm so worried they will dry out and die over the winter or I'll water log them and kill them. Storage is what intimidates me. Thank you for another great and informative video.
Thanks Erin💕
My peaches and cream did not grow that tall. It was under 3 foot. I grew two of them in my cut flower garden. I’m so jealous you got appleblossom!