Last Dahlias for 2024 - For Real This Time - Mid-November 2024
Yesterday, I posted a photo of our Disneyland Roses showing off their last round of bloom s for the year and talked about how nice it is to have some of these colorful flowers this late in the season. I suppose...it sort-of makes up for the fact that Spring seems to last FOREVER around here and the flowers don't begin to pop-off until August. 2024 has been the season of the dahlia in our garden and it seems that I 've called for 'a lid' on the dahlia season for weeks now . The plants have been producing fewer blooms each week - starting in October and I assumed they were drawing to a close. I wanted to extend the season as best I could, so in mid-October, when we were facing a hard frost on a couple of nights, I protected the dahlias with some frost covers . It appeared to work - and they kept on blooming. But, starting in November (when the weather turned cooler), I stopped watering the dahlias and began to think about my plan for trying to save the tubers. In