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Dahlia

Bilbo

By Bilbo
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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Bilbo

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I have always called it Dahlia (with a soft "h") as was the botanist Dr Anders Dahl of Sweden.

Here in UK everyone else seems to call it Day-lee-ah.

Am I alone?

For the record I dont like most of these (esp.hybrids galore packed into the same bed) but I have just taken delivery of two tasty looking D.imperialis which grows to at least 13` as most of you know and that is very different indeed!

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Juan

Juan

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STEVE IN SO CAL

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I say Doll-ya...and we have too many...but I love them

If global warming means I can grow Cocos Nucifera, then bring it on....

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Thanks Steve, at least thats a soft pronunciation which is fairly similar to mine.

Its the hard pronunciation which annoys cos it cant be!

Hey: with you on Global Warming: I would even be happy to grow the dwarfer  forms of Cocos in the garden.

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Juan

Juan

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(STEVE IN SO CAL @ Mar. 22 2007,09:11)

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I say Doll-ya...and we have too many...but I love them

I call them Dal-ya (rhymes with "gal-ya");

Hmm.  Mine always die after a winter.  Do yours?

Or do you lift and fridge' them?

dave

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(Dave from So-Cal @ Mar. 23 2007,23:57)

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(STEVE IN SO CAL @ Mar. 22 2007,09:11)

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I say Doll-ya...and we have too many...but I love them

I call them Dal-ya (rhymes with "gal-ya");

Hmm.  Mine always die after a winter.  Do yours?

Or do you lift and fridge' them?

dave

Dave...mine come back every spring...most do, anyway. I have lost a few (but at the rate my wife buys new ones, I'm still over run) The trick is to stop all water after summer is over....resume when they start leafing out again in spring.

If global warming means I can grow Cocos Nucifera, then bring it on....

Zac in NC Veteran

Zac in NC

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Jon- I say Doll- ee-ah. I also grow Dahlia imperialis( I have 2 clumps, one is 5 years old and the other 4. It easily reaches 15 feet in a season. I am also growing a personal collection of Dahlia coccinea I collected on La Pena in South Western Tamaulipas last summer, and also D sublignosa from the same general area of Tamaulipas. I love them, but mainly the species ones, not the big fru fru hybrid super doubles, though I will get the 2 double imperialis that are sold at Plant Delights.

Zac

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Zac:

Is this it?

I've seen them in California . . . .

starr_980529_4176_dahlia_imperialis.jpg

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Zac in NC

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Dave- That it is. It usually blooms around the time that we get our first killing frost, Argh!!!!!

Zac

Zac  

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(Zac in NC @ Mar. 24 2007,19:01)

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Dave- That it is. It usually blooms around the time that we get our first killing frost, Argh!!!!!

Zac

The story of me life, lad.  Such as it may be.  Give me a Guiness . . .

dave

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