More Pooh Collarette Dahlia Blooms - September 2025

With two Pooh Collarette Dahlia plants growing in our garden, I was able to clip-off seven-or-eight blooms and put them in a vase this week.  The Pooh Dahlia in our backyard is more productive than the one in our sideyard garden, despite it growing in poor-er soil conditions.  The backyard tuber was planted in the new (this year) Pizza Oven bed that is full of clay.  The sideyard Pooh Dahlia is planted in a bed that is rich with loam and municipal biosolids.  

But...the sideyard plant has been UNDER ASSAULT by Spider Mites the past month.  Since we came back from Ireland, the plant has struggled.  I think I've finally gotten on top of the pest problem and I'm seeing some fresh, new green growth.  So, I'm hoping it will keep producing over the next six-weeks-or-so.

Below is a photo of the all (only) Pooh Collarette Dahlia arrangement.  In a vase.  No foliage or filler plants.  Just the red and yellow blooms.  

The Pooh Collarette Dahlia plants are (by far) the tallest-growing dahlias that I have and I wasn't ready for their height earlier this Summer.  I've subsequently braced them as best as I could, but for next year, a support structure will need to be created when these go in the ground.  (That is...*knock on wood* as long as I can succesfully pull these out of the ground at the end of the season, store them without rotting away and re-start them indoors next Spring.)