Dahlias

Well Hello There! It seems I have forgotten I have a blog! : ) 

 

With all this snow on the ground, I have been thinking of my garden beneath it and what I want to work on and enhance this year.  With the success of my last minute mini cutting garden, I wanted to get some more cutting flowers for next year. 

 So this year I am going to get some Dahlias. 

 

Dahlias are amazingly beautiful giant flowers that bloom in the summer and fall, and I am excited for them!  They will look great in arrangements, but I fear the plants themselves might look a bit messy, but that will be my neighbors problem since I am putting them behind the garage! : )  I need to figure out a good layout for my cutting garden plants around our (hopefully) new shed, in a way that won't look too messy.  But that is a task for another time with all the snow we have right now.

 

I had a hard time deciding on which Dahlias to get since they are all so amazing. I also wondered how many I should get, since I don't know how hard they will be to grow and tend to.  I decided on 6 different types, and we shall see how it goes!

 

These are the 6 I got, plus a 7th as my "free gift"

(free when you spend too much money!)

 

 

They are all from Swan Island Dahlias.  They should arrive in the spring, then I just need to research how and when to plant them, tend to them, and come summer it will be flower time!!! woo hoo!!!  Then I need to research how to dig them up and store them for the following year, but that is also a task for another time. : )

 

And here are just some lovely images for you to droll over on this chilly afternoon:

these are not my images, just ones from google
and clearly I have "wedding" on the brain : )