At the end of summer, hybridizers collect seeds from fading dahlias that have been either wild pollinated or hand pollinated. They patiently save them all winter, and plant them the next spring. They care for their plants and wait even more… until mid-summer, when their seed-planted dahlias will bloom. Each bloom is unique in the […]
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Of course weather, air and soil temperature, and soil nutrition can also affect bloom color, but I believe the number of hours of daylight your plants receive is the *strongest factor* that contributes to color ???? change within a season. Dahlia plants begin blooming in mid-to-late summer as we move towards autumn and days get
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We don’t let dahlias go to seed early in the season, and here’s why: Every dahlia plant is growing with the “goal” of reproducing. To accomplish this, dahlias have two options: making seeds, and making tubers. If they are allowed to make seeds too early, then they think they’ve finished their job and begin to
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Hey friends! It’s the beginning of “seed saving season” here at our farm, and one of the top questions we get this time of year centers on how to save seed from dahlias that don’t have open centers. It’s easy to see how saving seed from open-center varieties like collarettes, orchid-form dahlias, or even anemone-form
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At Triple Wren, we love sharing beauty. In fact, the greatest joy we find in our work comes from connecting with our Legacy Program hybridizers and bringing their unavailable or obscure varieties to market so that more gardeners can enjoy growing the incredible diversity of beauty they’ve created. As more and more home gardeners begin
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Have you ever wondered how dahlias make seeds? Here’s an explanation of the different parts of the dahlia that make the seeds. Amazing seedlings can come from any form of dahlia, but it’s easiest to see the parts that make the seeds on an open-faced dahlia form, so that’s what we’ll use to show you,
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Within our Dahlia Legacy Program, we’re honored to feature several different dahlias from hybridizer Glenn Gitts, who lives and creates right here in Whatcom County, Washington state. Despite his obvious current love for creating and cultivating dahlias, Glenn hated flowers as a child… because he hated weeding! Growing up on a farm meant he had
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Today we’d like to introduce you to another talented hybridizer: Jean Heeringa. We feel blessed to know her, as she brings so much joy and beauty into the world, and love having her as part of Triple Wren’s Legacy Program. Jean and her late husband Ronald created the stunning Vista series of dahlias, including Vista
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This year a mid-March windstorm + very frosty nights led to a high tunnel calamity… which was the end of most of our secondary flower seedlings and a big chunk of our 2023 dahlia seedlings.It was a blow for sure, but as farmers the world around have always done, we picked up the pieces and
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We’re honored to feature in our Legacy Program many different dahlias hybridized by Steve and Sandy Boley of Birch Bay Dahlias. After growing and experimenting with dahlias for many years, Steve and Sandy’s first official dahlia introduction was released to the world in 1998. Since then they have made at least 90 dahlia introductions, with
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