Merry Christmas to ALL from Jan & Art at Jan's Country Garden!!

The rain has been pouring down, the creek is rushing bye at an incredible rate!  More rain in the forecast!!  It's time for us to get some sun.

I checked the dahlias on Wednesday and they look beautiful!  None are rotting, they are firm and plump.  The big snowfall and cold weather didn't phase them at all.  Fortunately they were all out of the ground, divided, treated, and put to bed before Thanksgiving because the next Monday we got a foot of snow.

All of the Dahlias have been dug, divided, and put to bed!!! Hooray!

The last three weeks have been grueling.  Digging, digging, and more digging.  At last, they are all out of the ground and in bed for the winter.  I am so Happy!! :-)

JAN'S COUNTRY GARDEN: Preview "Tubers are looking mighty fine!!"

JAN'S COUNTRY GARDEN: Preview "Tubers are looking mighty fine!!"

Saturday night's frost ended all the beautiful blooms...

The dahlias in the garden are now looking a very dark green from getting frozen during the night.  I will start cutting them down today.  In two weeks I will start digging and dividing the tubers to store for the winter.  It's been an unusual summer for the growing season and I'm anxious to see how well the tubers produced.  I still have a couple of nice looking bouquets that I picked on Saturday... :-)

2011 Dahlia List udated today!!

After going through the garden and 'tagging' all the dahlias, updating the 2010 list, the NEW updated list was added today.  When you go to the website:  http://www.janscountrygarden.com/ you will view the only version of the website currently on the internet.  The list is updated and you can click on "Dahlia List" on page 2 and find the revised list. 

                                              Blue Bayou

I am working early every morning and late each evening on the computer creating another website which will replace the current one.  I hope to publish it before November 1.  Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks for your patience.

Fall is coming far faster than expected...

Gitt's Perfection

Gryson's Yellow Spider

Sorbet

Alauna Pochette Surprise

I've been in the garden photographing the dahlias with my new Fuji camera.  Nice!  The dahlias are so beautiful right now but you can see the ravages of the colder and wetter days and nights on the leaves and blooms.  Some have just now bloomed, for example, Cabalero--A beautiful orange with yellow trim that came from Michel Robert in France; and surprisingly, Gitt's Perfection has just now put on ONE bloom--I thought I had lost it entirely.

The Garden was certified again in August by the Dept. of Agriculture.

Jan's Country Garden has been certified as a disease-free garden and ships all over the world.  I'm working on updating the website and hope to have it completed by the middle of October.  I'll be posting more photos on this Blogspot as I go along.  Thanks for looking!

It has been a strange year--the strangest I've ever experienced in by 30+ years of growing dahlias!  I'm anxious to see how the tubers have fared this year.