This is an old photo of a dahlia called Daydreamer that I grew this summer. Today we had our first snow and it's cold and grey and crazy to think a month ago it was sunshine and flowers. It finally got cold enough I couldn't dawdle any longer with dahlia storage and the remainder is now stored in the crawlspace for next year. It is still supposed to warm up next week- good thing as some late peony roots are arriving and I ordered clearance bareroot roses that I need to process and store.
Day Dreamer
Seed collecting continues- I think I have found any remaining dahlia seed that was usable. The pink cosmos is still making seeds somehow- it makes so many more seeds than the Rubinato cosmos that it's a bit ridiculous. Unfortuantely, I don't remember if these are supposed to be Fizzy Rose Picotee cosmos or Apricotta cosmos as I bought both and thought I would magically just remember which was which. I was hoping to have enough of all of my cosmos varieties to be able to trade with other people for more colors, but, only the pink really made enough seeds for that. The other varieties I bought just made enough seeds to replace themselves next year and a smidge more.
I ran around like crazy before the snow taking cuttings of all of my chrysanthemums- I really should have taken cuttings a few weeks ago, these have been hit with frost so many times that they look a bit bleak. I skipped matchsticks as it looked like it was having some kind of issue and it would be just my luck to bring some loathsome virus into the house. Granted, it could just be wind/frost damage, but, we'll see what it looks like in the spring.
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