Choose Your Dahlia Seeds

2021

by. Donald Chandonnet, smile4yourself@yahoo.ca


Choosing Your Seeds

Here is a selection of the many Dahlia seeds I collected in 2020 from the garden. It was
a hot, dry year, so seed production was quite good.

A Dahlia seed is created from two parent plants. These are usually di erent plants, and
seeds made from di erent plants produce di erent characteristic mixtures originating
from the two parents and their genealogies.

In this short document, I will show a photo of the seed parent, which is half of the
characteristics that might come in one of the seeds. In this way you can let me know
which seeds you would like, and how many.

There are many characteristics that a dahlia can exhibit such as:

height of plant

thickness of the stalks

colour of the leaves

colour of the stalks

if it makes strong tubers for wintering well

the size and shape of the owers

the colour of the owers

how the colour is distributed on the petals

etc.

Here we will look at the owers to help you decide what to try.

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Pooh

seeds from Pooh near Rosanne

seeds from Pooh &/or Hy-Bolero

seeds from Pooh & the bees

Chic

seeds from Chic and the bees

seeds from Chic near Sally’s Sunshine

Sunlight Blessing

seeds from Sunlight Blessing near Rosanne

seeds from Sunlight Blessing and the Bees

Hy-Bolero

seeds from Hy-Bolero near Pooh

seeds from Hy-Bolero and the Bees

seeds from Hy-Bolero near Soulman (see below)

Hy-Bolero (Yellow Sport)

seeds from Hy-Bolero(Yellow) near Pooh. This is the same variety as Hy-Bolero, but it
has changed colour to a predominance of yellow.

Rosanne

seeds from Rosanne and the Bees

seeds from Rosanne near Crazy Joe

seeds from Rosanne near Aragon

Crazy Joe

seeds from Crazy Joe and the Bees

seeds from Rosanne near Crazy Joe

Soulman

seeds from Hy-Bolero near Soulman

seeds from Soulman and the Bees

Sally’s Sunshine

seeds from Sally’s Sunshine and the Bees

19.19.54 Double Yellow

seeds from Double yellow and Bees

Aragon

seeds from Aragon and the bees

Rejman’s Firecracker

seeds from Rejman’s Firecracker and the bees

Mauve Simple

seeds from Mauve Simple near Pooh

Donella’s Sunshine

seeds from Donella’s Sunshine (20.20.02)

MaiiTai

this was the seed parent of Aragon (see above)

seeds from MaiiTai and the bees

Pink Double 20.20.25

seeds from the bees

20.20.32

Rimbeau

seeds from Rimbeau and the bees