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Album: PdxJules' Dahlias & Garden pix

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Date: 08/27/05 - Size: 48 items

Hi there - I am somewhat a messy gardener, and a newbie to lots of things. I like learning about individual plants more than making some kind of perfect frozen Portrait. For me - it's a Zen-workout. i relish both the sweat and mental health escape. It's a good thing to get dirty and cooperate with compost, thru all the changing seasons. A garden is a process - one that makes you lift weights, stretch, and do plenty of Yoga positions as you work. I grow about half my food now, and except for a quiet electric mower, prefer not to use power tools outdoors. I don't expect completion nor perfection when gardening - I am delighted when anything works out. I do it for myself, and for the simple pleasures that probably only I will notice. I give away lots of seed, tubers and plants every year, and volunteer in OPG's - other people's gardens. See my list at www.gardenweb.com in Member Exchanges: pdxJules - let me know if you want Garlic chive tubers, seed, or Yellow Plum scions.

Summernight Dahlia

This is one of my favorites, I won't have many Tubers to trade in 2005.

09/08/05

ImpressionFantastico

09/08/05

spartacus

This one is in the top 50 - a stunner! Low growng shrub with large deep red flowers. Reserve tubers now - what do you have to offer?

09/08/05
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Rhipsalis (Sp: DrunkardsDream?)

Mine is a tuff yellow-flowering variety, from Roger Marin in Portland, from OldHerb's Spring Swap event 2 years ago. I am rooting and sharing cuttings now.

09/08/05

Smokey

My Smokey blooms are darker than this...almost a reverse pattern This one is from the source plant (from AnneP at www.gardenweb.com)

09/08/05

Merlot Dahlia

I got this from AnneP - AKA: Poochella at gardenweb...then hers all croaked! I am hoping for healthy tubers to send back to her. This is being introduced to Oregon gardeners from Swan Island farms this year. The annual show in Canby was GREAT - my first t

09/08/05
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