Archives for September 2021

Although way too late in the season, I finally got around to repotting, remixing and replanting some succulent planters. Some of the old mixes were looking pretty bare and ugly.

I found some good containers at Thrift stores, but without drain holes. So we drilled small holes in them for drainage and found some cactus soil for planting.

I cut off bits from here and there, dug out small plants, and had a few new purchases. I tucked in small starter plants into the spaces.

This is a very odd shaped container that I thought would be very cool. The first attempt was not very cool. So this time I just tucked in a lot of small baby succulents, and we’ll see how that works.

The planters actually turned out looking really good. But they only have about a month outside before I’ll have to move them indoors for the winter. Next summer I must do the job earlier so they can really flourish in the sunshine.

These are some of the dahlias we are enjoying this year. I’m building up a collection of purples.

I have many plants of this pink one so I will be giving away a bunch of these tubers. They are good bloomers, the plants are really large and need really good support. Parts of mine are breaking off at this point in the season.

This orange ball is an amazing bloomer with long straight stems for each bloom. I hope to get a bunch of good tubers from the plant.

This one is red, but not an apple red. It’s kind of tricky in a bouquet, but it does sort of go with pink and fuchsia zinnias.

I actually have some new tubers that haven’t even bloomed yet! I’m hoping I get at least one or two flowers, so I can at least see what they look like. The dahlias planted out in flower beds have also had very few blooms – I don’t know why. Dahlias are addictive – there are so many beautiful varieties, providing plenty of flowers for bouquets.