I'm pretty beat and have to get up early but I'll throw on a few photos in case it's raining at your house today. This show, held in a moderate size mall east of Seattle, runs on a Saturday and Sunday. The inside temps and overhead skylights left quite a few of the blooms wilty or sad looking by the time I got there. I was very disappointed to only see two long tables outside of Target with blooms. Then I noticed the main hallway had several more tables, then an intersecting hallway had more and more and more tables full of dahlias until you had walked in a huge U! You have got to get to one of these, even if it means driving far.
I spotted a few very bright blooms, my favorites being the Ms or BBs, some great new seedlings from our area, some wonderful colors and incurved cactuses.
To start, it's Chimacum Katie which is just showing bud color in my garden. It was recommended in my quest for bright pink dahlias.
Puget Sound Dahlia Association Show
This one is so unique and the name is unfamiliar to me but it's in my area. "Bel-Red" is usually the short version meaning the area of two of Seattle's biggest eastern suburbs, Bellevue and Redmond. So these people are within 15 miles or less. I must find them!
Check out the stripes in the closer up shot below:
The overall look of the flower is kind of blotchy lavender, but the stripes are very different, not seen often at all.
Belred Supreme is the name:
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Our association Challenge Flower this year was Taratahi Lilac, meaning anyone who wants to can buy a tuber of it and then have their blooms judged en masse. In a casual, quick count there were over 105 Taratahi Lilacs in many shades of lavender to nearly white, from fully gorgeous to nearly dead with wilt, poor things.
Very nice, Annie.
I like that waterlily one, 'Charlie Dimmick'.
I see you really do like your catus and pompom types!
Those are great, pooch. I especially like AVOCA COMANCHE, SCOTT'S FIREWORKS, STILLWATER JACE and CHARLIE DIMMICK.
It's always amazing to me how many varieties of certain types of flowers are available. Irises are the same way. Something for everyone...and then some! :0)
Annie, you are just terrible, I want one of them all. How beautiful and your photography is exquisite. Take care and get some rest and get well.
Some real beauties there Poochella. Scott's Fireworks, never saw a catcus in two color tones. And Jane___so intense and full.
I do like the waterlilies. Charlie Dimmick is exceptional.
Belred Sunset another so pretty____
I can't even look at the white ones and enjoy them, but some of them with a hint of color are just exquisite.
Oh, it looks like Christmas in August....I want them all...
Charlie Dimmick is my favorite here. I will be on the hunt for that one! Thanks for the photos and LOL it is raining here!
There are more, I just couldn't stay up til 2 a.m. posting them LOL. I'll do more tonight. Not too many, but more waterlilies for sure. Glad you like them. Never hurts to look at new dahlias...
Poochella, I love the pretty pink you had as number one. So full and rich. I keep admiring it as I look through the thread headings.
My begging hand is out if any are available.
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Those Tarahiti Lilacs must growing in the ditches with Seattle out there huh. You had one in there I am assuming.
Of course I like Charlie Dimmick - such form.
Avoca Commanche catches my eye also.
Nope Al, I don't show, to date anyway. I probably could but my nose got out of joint about the whole practice, I think I told you, at one show when there were 4-5 absolutley perfect flowers of the same variety and I couldn't believe a judge could say one was better than another. No bites, no blemishes, no gnat feces, no wilt: perfect blooms. A dahlia society gal happened by so I asked her what the difference was between blooms and blue/red etc. ribbons. "Too much stem between leaves and flowers on the 'lesser' blooms" was her answer. I waited before rolling my eyes. That's just not for me. I'm already out there trying to measure a dang dahlia tree LOL, I don't need to be worried about millimeters on a single flower stem too!
Jam, Chimacum Katie is just opening now. Even though it's classified as lavender, everyone who recommended it said it shows up as a rich pink. I'll post photos and you're welcome to it, if you like it.
I'll add some more from the PSDA show now, trying to stay with ones in focus. No guaranty . My goal for the year is to take at least 5 clear photos.....
Below is Ballerina. Perhaps related to the light pink and white Bracken Ballerina I was so lucky to get back from Nai. This one looked equally nice and I'm after a white waterlily.
Oh oh, the other waterlilies, only two or three must have been blurry beyond hope as I didn't save them! Pam Howden was one, and one display with several Charlie Dimmick's. Al, if I find a photo on my camera card sometime and it's reasonable, I'll Dmail you with it. CDimmick was very bright, robust colors.
Here are some seedlings that caught my eye. Again I'm after the elusive and lacking small hot pink ball. Dick Ambrose of Camano dahlia fame had this seedling: a bright pink mini ball. I liked it alot and hope it gets to my yard some day!
I like the crisp edges of the stellar forms. Have one, Fidlago Julie, in red and orange also,that has been a laggard since I planted it. Hope I get to see it bloom before December. Humph. Here is one in pink:
Pink Pet. Pink Pet did not make Pooch's list of pristine clear photos LOL! I don't know what the heck is up with the blur. Nap, I need to hire you for a week to fly out here and push camera buttons for me.
Very cool bowl for that pic with the same shape of petals.
I guess you will have to have me come up to take your pics, LOL
Did you change the setting of your camera??? Are you using close-up or just reg. shot?
Come on up Carol! I am using every pssible setting I can possibly try and only a few shots are clear. Last year I didn't have this problem, and was wondering if the camera card gets old? Or is it plain old operator error? Half the time I'm trying to balance on a rock or a mole hill or tunnel dip in the ground, so it's likely me and not the camera.
Well, maybe you need a balance check, lol
I will say usually your pics have been good so....... am wondering. Tho you said you have been not feeling well, so maybe your balance is shaky? But balancing on things doesn't help. I know. Between trying to get a perfect pic and dealing with the wind..........who knows how it will turn out?
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