I Think I Have an Addiction Problem

I think I have an addiction problem between the unpredictable weather, nine foot tall plants, and obsessing over every single variety. I've officially lost control. This year the dahlias did not give me the overflow I usually get on my flower patch but I still have footage of every single one of that deep bloom and I absolutely love it. Before the frost takes over I want to show you what's left i'm showing you every single one of them with their names where i got them and details about each one of them how i feel about them all the info before you buy your tubers this is Breakout and i got this one at Triple Wren Farm i really always love this dahlia it's kind of there with the cafeolic one but it has even more color to me because of the gold like creamy gold in the center and then it goes to a brighter color on the outside it is just so fluffy and it grows i think like eight inch probably that's probably a flower like eight inches in diameter and the color is still soft like creamy and buttery yellow but it still has that punch in the garden this is the Coralie dahlia from White Flower Farms this dahlia is absolutely stunning i don't know this one starts with again that golden i think i like those dahlias with the gold in the in the center that has that creamy buttery color it has a five inch or five inch diameter so it's really large it's a beautiful pastel it contrasts really good with other flowers when you do a bouquet the plant grows around 48 inches and it's really really sturdy this is Crème de la Cassis dahlia and it's the only one i got from Lily's Garden this one is a water lily type and it I really did like it it didn't bloom a lot but I did love the dahlia I found it to be more like a soft lavender than a berry color but the plum in the center is absolutely beautiful I did like that it kind of needed that in the flower this is the Blumquist Sterling dahlia from Triple Wren Farm this has to be one of my favorite dahlias I grew this year it is just so elegant the way that the color works on it but also the wispiness and softness of it i think is probably one of the top ones that i will always want in my garden the shape color everything is very much how it showed on the website and the lavender color is absolutely beautiful that's the only thing that i think is a lot more pink than the lavender but i think it's a stunning color regardless of which way it goes one of the things that I loved on this dahlia is that you can see how much it varies like it starts with a cream color and then it gets that pink on the bottom but even the bud itself is super pink look how pretty the center of that is if you want a lot of drama in your garden having this makes a big difference in a flower patch the bud is so it's like a little piece of sculpture Sandra Barbie dahlia from Triple Wren Farm okay this has to be the most fun dahlia i have ever grown now this dahlia was supposed to be three and a half feet tall unless i got something wrong and look at this thing it must be eight or nine feet tall i don't know what happened to it but hopefully next year it will grow normally it's a cactus dahlia but the blooms are like six and a half inches or more it is a huge bloom absolutely stunning this is Bloomquist Dreamer dahlia and it is from Triple Wren Farm this dahlia did really well this is another cactus and it looks i mean it blooms so early in the season of course it was in the ground i did not dig it out last year by mistake so it bloomed a lot and i have to tell you the color is so much prettier than it looks on the orange color it's more like a peachy color and it works so well if you want some kind of flower that's larger for bouquets i think it's just a really fun flower to have it does grow quite tall probably five feet tall i think it's taller than the four feet that i think it was supposed to be but it's worth growing i'm gonna to keep this one this is iced tea dahlia from swan island dahlias i will say this is not my favorite dahlia but i do like a couple of things about it one is that it's a pom-pom dahlia but it's like three inches or so the flower so it's a nicer size and also super compact it grows like three feet high so it doesn't take a bunch of the space if you have a very tight space and garden like me in a tiny tiny garden strawberry cream from i think it may be from bear creek farm but i am not sure this is a super cute dahlia i was kind of disappointed when it first started but i do like the color i do like that it has those little splashes of extra color on it it looks like it's been brushed onto it the petal color is maybe like a pink berry color and a cream color super pretty I do like it and it can some of them open up so they're not super round so it varies a lot that's the one thing I do not like also I think the size is around three to four feet high so that's perfect and they do have a long vase life I found that if I cut it it does last, which I really love because since my small garden I cannot grow really huge flowers everywhere that take too much space, Teesbrook Audrey Dahlia and this is from White Flower Farm on this dahlia I was beyond happy because it didn't look as pretty on their website and it's stunning, this beautiful dahlia is one that I want to always have in my garden, it is a collarette form so it has this beautiful just ring of petals with the white, I mean this is the most perfect dahlia, this is such a good one and it the size is really pretty and it does bloom quite a bit if you get it the flower is supposed to be very pastel in look but it has this stunning color and layering that yellow against the pink and then white, it just transitions really nicely, Honka Pink Dahlia and it's from White Flower Farm, this is the most fun dahlia I've ever grown and it is great because it works in pots, it grows 28 inches tall and it is compact and orchid shape and it takes some part shade which is excellent if you know where I grow, where I don't have enough sun on my pot it's been perfection, Kelsey and Joy from Longfield Gardens, I honestly don't know what happened with this one because it doesn't look like what I thought it was gonna look like, so I don't know if I got a different one or this is something else and I got my tubers mixed up but I actually really like this one, it is another colorette, I think I'm in love with colorettes and it's very summery looking so it fits so good for pots it doesn't grow super big four or five feet tall like this probably a couple two to three feet tall depending where you grow it I do have it in full sun the gold to like peachy apricot color it is just a gorgeous gorgeous flower so i definitely will have this flower in my garden always Blue Bayou Dahlia and it's from White Flower Farm this is an anemone dahlia and it has that look of like the cushion in the center i think this another really fun type of dahlia the color is not my favorite i'll be honest but it does work really well if you want to cut flower it's super strong and it doesn't take over your garden if you have a small garden so i will probably keep it in my garden the photo they have on their website doesn't make it justice i think it's much prettier than that it may not have been the best year for my dahlias this year with windstorms and all of that but it is still a great year because i did grow some new ones and found some beauties in all of it normally i dig all the tubers every winter or fall but this year i'm gonna keep them in the ground and i know it's a huge risk i could lose them all but i'm doing it anyway if you grow dahlias tell me do you dig them or do you leave them in the ground and honestly if you don't grow them fair warning you buy one you might end up with the same addiction as i have and this is one addiction that i'm okay living with it it is just beautiful the amount of different choices that you have out there to go ahead and purchase i have grown so many and you can look on my channel for all the ones i grew this year which are a lot more than these and previous years i'll try to link all the videos on the description below for you i show how to grow them all the way from when you start indoors until you put them back indoors for winter i'm grateful for the flower patch that kept going regardless of adversity