Honored to be picked as ONE of the TOP FIVE Dahlia Gardens

Here's the link to Dave's Garden which hosts the Garden Watchdog for people to want to be sure they are ordering dahlias or other plants, for that matter, from a "reputable" and "honest" dealing company.  I am honored!!

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3619/

Have a Great Dahlia Day!!  Jan

Well, we've gotten a ton of snow...

And it's still snowing!!

Here's some photos:

This one is where Art parks his work truck.  We've shoveled snow off the concrete pad 3 times and each time there was about 6" of snow.

This is from the back deck towards the pond.  It's very pretty.  Our dog, Daisy, and our two kitties do not like the snow.

I've shoveled a snowpath on the deck and down the stairs to the garden 3 times and it's still snowing... not huge flakes but steadily coming down.  The forecast yesterday was for rain starting today and the temperatures to get into the 40ºs.  We'll see...

Website updated for the Yew Year of 2012!!

Oh, the trials and tribulations of doing a website.  It only takes ONE letter added in the wrong place and mess everything up!!  Took me a week to realized I had added a letter to a file name that caused an error message to come up every time!  It's Fixed now!!  Now, back to dahlias!!

Piuku!

This is the name of this bloom which I received from 

Yoann Beaumont, France Dahlia Society President

and hybridizer of this Single varigated dahlia.

Alauna Griselda

Hybridized by Michel Robert, Past President of

the France Dahlia Society.  A lovely shade and

beautiful form!



Website updated, uploaded last night!!

It always take a while to get back into the groove of working on the website.  Trial and error, trial and error until I finally get it right.  I am so glad it's now done!  I have many many new dahlias with their photos on the website.  New music too!

Ferncliff Illusion

Fiaker

Yellow Passion

What an AWESOME flower this one is!

It blooms and blooms and blooms... georgous!

Nearly TWO THIRDS of the dahlias have been dug!! Wahoooo!

I and my helpers have been working long days digging, dividing, cleansing, drying and storing the dahlia tubers.  The weather has been nice so it hasn't been an unpleasant job.  Tomorrow is another long day.

I will be updating my website with "Sold Out" varieties within the next two weeks.  A person can only do so much in a day...

Here's a couple of beauties!!

Camano Buz

Caproz Raspberry Twinkle

Lady Darlene

Laura's Dream

I've cut one of these blooms, put it in a large bowl with water

(changing it daily) and it lasts a full two weeks and still looks beautiful!

Have a Great Day!!

The garden experienced a "frost" last night.

Now it's time to cut down the dahlias and start digging.
Photos of some new dahlias:

I am not certain of the name for this dahlia, but it's really beautiful. 

Grows to about 10 inches across when it's full bloom.  Stands about 4-1/2 feet tall. 

Blue Boy

The garden will be closed Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011

This is my annual dahlia tuber buying trip each year so will be closed.

Harvey Coop

Leray

This is two of the new ones!!  Very nice!