Dahlia Society of California
September, 2003
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Next Meeting:
Sept. 9, 2003, @ 8pm @ San Francisco County Fair Building, 9th
& Lincoln.
Program: Mini Show! Let your dahlias flaunt their stuff. 1
Entry per form: AA, A, B, BB, M, BA, MB, P, WL, AN, MS, S, CO, NO, ST,
O, PE. Also x3 & x5.
Please come early to be set up by 8 pm.
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NOVICES KICK
PETALS! Congratulations
to the 9 novices who vied for glory.
Marilyn Warden displayed her husband’s dahlias in her
personally crafted Asian glass container. Melissa triumphed with a
huge Kenora Clyde Best of Show, as well as a pert Joshua Juul & Camano
Pet. DJ’s Pooh outshone the collarettes. Kim erected 3 darling
Matches. Team Marr succeeded with Shy Princess & Honka. Jim
scored with Hillcrest Kismet & Kenora Fireball. Joe waltzed away
with Glenbank Twinkle, Barbarry Gem, Wildwood Marie, GlenPlace, and Goldie
Gull. Barbara brought a lovely Mingus Wesley & the Dingwalls showed
Robann Royal. Judges Thelma, Tinnee & Deborah tried to point out
aesthetic considerations.
DJ gave away 2-300 aluminum stakes.
Bill brought a banana cream pie, Penny gingerbread, Thelma chocolate chip
cookies, the Dingwalls ice cream & Barbara brought gourmet caramels.
Who
will bring goodies in September?
HOT SHOTS
Surmounting a SF heat wave, we
hosted a Big Show.
Congratulations to Janet Thelen for
Novice Sweepstakes; to the Juuls for Amateur Sweeps, & to the Stiers for
Open. 5 humongous Verdas proved Curtis Maxwell the Comeback King.
Novice DJ stayed on the head table with 3 dainty Sean C’s. The
Queants landed a bristly Goshen Thistle. Tinnee’s Kenora Clyde took
Best AA while Dabel’s Creve Coeur loomed largest. The Juuls’
teeny-weeny Willo Surprise grew smallest.
Single-handedly, Lou P.
decorated much of the head table: Camano Pet, third year seedling,
Ruskin Marigold, Hamari Accord, Pooh, NW Cosmos, Juul’s Lotus, & x5
L.A.T.E. The Queants x7 seedling, a dusty rose fim with ivory &
yellow streaks caught my eye, as well as the Larkin-Zydner x5 C G Paragon,
a truly luminous pink.
DJ’s Ad Lib, A C V
(PR/W) & Haley’s Dream, M FD PR/W, landed on many wishlists.
I coveted Rokewood Opal 368, a BB C L; Sun Storm 202, BB
FD Y/O; Serge’s Goshen Calico 234, B ID V (Y/OR); the
Juul’s Highflyer 410; and Moray Susan 613 WL DB DR/Y. Special
thanks to Lou P. for ordering a great lunch again and to Mary who
organized the dishes. Rose & Kim encouraged memberships
and sold various dahlia books and Carol’s dahlia calendars.
Thanks
to the Cornishes and Dingwalls for the capacious Court of Honor .
Thanks to Elsie, with Louise’s help, who organized and managed the Show
and to all of you who helped set up this great event and to those who
stayed to the last petal cleaning up. And a special thanks to the
Almands for driving down from Eureka and joining in the Show. So
many of our visitors were interested in buying their lovely
flowering plants – we hope they will join us again next year.
CHECK OUT THE LIBRARY’S DAHLIAS
What a venue!
For so early in the season, the
San Leandro show displayed magnificent flowers. San Jose’s
Janet won Novice Sweepstakes; Roy & Betty Stier petaled to Amateur Sweeps;
& the Larkin/Zydner team triumphed in Open. The Juuls nailed Best
large & Best small with Veca Lucia and Altar Cloud, as well as staying on
the head table with Camano Pet, Matthew Juul, Juul’s AllStar & a gay
basket of Mi Wongs. Lou Paradise scored with Pink Jupiter (x1, x3!),
Hamari Accord, & a magnificent x8 Porcelain. Serge displayed several new
seedlings we hope to see more of. Bodacious – AA 26-roared like a lion;
WL China Doll—610—beguiled in pale yellow with pink lined petals.
Stiers’ Laura Marie—506—a red ball, curved fully back to the stem.
CG Mist—328-- resembled a lavender tutu, such cute laciniation.
Scarborough Brilliant, Little Jack, Valley Porcupine, Mingus Wallace &
Normandy Orange Fluff also caught my eye.
ELECTRIFYING NEWS: BLACKBERRIES &
DAHLIAS
Your venerable society
joins the millennium. If you would like to receive your fascinating
newsletter via email instead of snail mail, please update your web
address with Ted: Ted@Marr.org. Please
provide separate email addresses for each member of your family
membership.
THE PERFECT PICNIC
blessed
by glorious weather.
Erik rented tables, chairs, a balloon twister &
the indefatigable Gigi the Clown, who painted exquisite body parts for
hours. Kids clambered all over a REAL Fire Truck, clanging the bell
& donning fireman's’ hats. Friends &
families thronged the Dell to reduce to bones Erik’s 4 baked hams, a
turkey, and a variety of salads and desserts brought by members. Lou
& Thelma designed a Tower of Dahlias, luring people to the Dingwalls’
membership table. Brilliant! The Juuls led tours for the
Bloomerati, including the Mortons & Curtis. Coming clear from Napa,
Mike W. disbudded with Judy, the Marrs, John G. & Penny.
SUBLIME SEPTEMBER
Pick! Cut! Snip!
Bestow bouquets on all your friends!
Practice dahlia bondage: tie up your plants or the wind will make you
weep. Take the low laterals off now—they will break off when they
are heavier, so get them now and send that energy to the branches where
you need growth & flowers. Aphids, caterpillars & diabrotica beetles
abound. Try the traditional cocktail for the first two:
Malathion, Orthene. a fungicide, Superbloom, & liquid dishwashing soap
applied in a sprayer. For diaBRATicas, try painting Dixie cups with
Tanglefoot atop your stakes. Squishing with fingers works
satisfyingly, too.
Water when your plants show heat fatigue; this
could be once a day or once a week depending on the weather. Check
names against ADS Classification descriptions. Rogue: when in
doubt, toss dubious plants out! Where to deadhead?
Cut clear back to the next growth-producing flowers. The more
rigorously you cut back, the more your plant will flourish. Take in
the John Stowell Show @ Vallco Fashion Mall, Cupertino, Sept. 6-7 & Monterey’s show
@ the Capitola Mall, Corralitos, Sept. 20-21.
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