Dahlias: My Earliest Blooms 2, 5 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Ah, freckles and red hair! I wanted one of my kids to have red hair and married a redhead (what there was of it) but instead I have a blonde and a shaved head...my son has the shaved head, not my daughter!

Otto's Thrill will be on my list for 2014! I agree that I want a plant with lots of blooms, not a now and then bloom.

Dan - Here's AC Rainier, which I always want to spell Ranier.

I like your Zorro!

Common generally means widely available, at least to me. Not exactly rare would be another way others may think of it. Often it's how we use a plant that makes it special.

Today I was busy placing stones. We bought a whole palette and I had no idea how many there were but now my back is telling me!