Dig on Dahlias

Join Joann and Allison interview Jenica with Dahlias 4 DIPG. Following the loss of their son, Levi, Jenica and her family started this dahlia business as a way to raise funds and awarness for childhood cancer. Come listen to all the awesome things they are doing for families walking through the same journey. 

You can reach out to the Levi's Legacy team and find out more about Dahlias 4 DIPG on Facebook. Find the Dahlias 4 DIPG page or the Levi's Legacy DIPG Foundation page. Their tubers will go for sale in spring at https://dahlias-4-dipg.myshopify.com/password. Also, follow their facebook page for dahlia auctions. 

Join Joann and Allison talk about how they have been digging and dividing their dahlias. We discuss some of the things we did differently this year and how they worked out in our gardens. 

Join Joann and Allison interview Adrienne of Tah-Dahlia! at the ADS National show in Wenatchee, WA. 

Adrienne shares with us how she grows dahlias in Colorado's challenging climate as well as an exciting collaboration with a local potato grower to do tissue culture with a special dahlia. 

Find about more about Adrienne and her beautiful flowers on instagram at @Tah-Dahlia!. 

Join Joann and Allison interview Amy from La Vida Dahlia (previously Rock Yard Blooms). 

Amy shares her excitment over attending her first dahlia show! She went big traveling to the 2024 ADS Nationals! Amy also dives into the challenges of growing dahlias in New Mexico. 

You can find more information about La Vida Dahlias on social media, @LaVidaDahlia and her website www.lavidadahlia.com.

Joann and Allison discuss how they are collecting seed now as well as how they are planning to collect seed for the 2025 season.

Thinking of taking some fall cuttings and overwintering? Join Joann and Allison interview Jesse Owen of Get Planted N.W. to learn how to successfully grow dahlias indoors through fall and winter. Jesse has over 15 years of experience in plant propagation and indoor growing and shares with us his experiences growing dahlias indoors. 

To find more information about Jesse's dahlias go to https://www.facebook.com/Getplantednw or www.getplantednw.com. 

Thrips, aphids, nematodes oh my! Join Joann and Allison interview Alison Kutz of Sound Horticulture. Alison discusses how to utilize beneficial insects and biological controls to manage pest and disease pressures in non-toxic ways.

To learn more about Sound Horticulture and what they have to offer, visit www.soundhorticulutre.com. Alison’s website provides very helpful information about pests and diseases as well as which biological controls you can use to reduce these pressures.

Join Joann and Allison interview Emily and Elyse from Idlewild Blooms.

Emily shares with us about her dahlia farm as well as how she utilizes her past profession in teaching dahlia growers how to run a more effiecent and effective website. 

You can find more information about Idlewild Blooms at www.idlewildblooms.com. 

Join Joann and Allison as we chat with Deanna Anthony with Bloomtown Flowers in Federal Way, WA. Deanna is a dahlia grower  and Growing Kindness member. 

You can find Deanna on Instagram at Bloomtown_Flowers or at her website https://bloomtown-flowers.myshopify.com. 

For more information about the Growing Kindness Project visit their website at www.growingkindnessproject.org. They believe:

"By starting where we are, using what we have, and doing what we can, we accomplish SO much. Every act of kindness has the potential to change a life. We never grow poor by giving. There is no better place than the garden to grow change."

— The Growing Kindness Team

This is the first of five interviews from the National Show. Stay tuned for the interviews with four more growers from across the US. 

Joann and Allison discuss how they are beginning to prepare for digging and dividing dahlias.