{"id":13666,"date":"2012-06-26T02:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13666"},"modified":"2012-11-12T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:32:48","slug":"new-mini-dahlia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/new-mini-dahlia\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mini Dahlia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mini Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega\u00c2\u00ae is the latest addition to my plants acquired due to aggressive marketing. As readers will know I like to test new plants but do not what too much marketing.<br \/>\nIn the garden centre it was on a tray marked \u00c2\u00a31.50 but was really \u00c2\u00a32.99 when I got to check out. This is another serious whinge of mine, duff pricing and or naff quality at garden centres.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7442937254\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7137\/7442937254_6edffe5773.jpg\" alt=\"Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega\" width=\"500\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Small Plan for Mini Dahlia<\/h3>\n<p>Despite my reservations I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resist this <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmini dahlia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> in yellow and orange. It had over a dozen visible buds of which 5 showed the beginnings of colour. (One other similar plant had fully open flowers that showed a semi double effect).<br \/>\nMy plan is to see how many flowers one plant will produce in one summer (assuming we get a summer).<br \/>\nIt was in a 4\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 pot and I have repotted into a 7\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 pot. The recommended distance apart is 10\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 which small for a dahlia that generally like their own space.<br \/>\nCurrent height is 6\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 that suits me and the mini stature but I am worried as the label says in will grow to 16\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 which is more than mini in my book. I must wait and see and will report back.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Report back after 10 weeks<\/strong> &#8211; bitter disappointment at poor volume of flowers. Plant leaved up but remained 12&#8243; high but negligible new buds. Will September redeem the plant? I have my doubts!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Mini Dahlia Growing Instructions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mini Dahlias are a half hardy perennial that is grown as a half hardy annual.<\/li>\n<li>Garden centres are told \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHigh light intensity and day lengths from 13 to 15 hours will promote an advanced florescence and a good plant structure\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/li>\n<li>The label tells gardeners position in fertile, moist, well drained soil in sun or partial shade. (Oh that is so unusual).<\/li>\n<li>Water well in dry weather and feed weekly when in flower.<\/li>\n<li>Mini Dahlia Yellow Bicolour should \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcproduce an abundance of delightful, brightly coloured blooms throughout summer.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<br \/>\nIdeal for patio containers and borders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Definition of Mini Dahlia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Mini dahlia is a low growing dahlia normally between 10 and 18 inches tall.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers dictate the definition &#8216;mini&#8217; ranging from 1.5 to 3 inches  in diameter. <\/li>\n<li>Dahlias with flowers larger than 4 inches are no longer considered minis. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8138335804\/\" title=\"November mini dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8475\/8138335804_bd80263f0f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"November mini dahlia\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>5 months Later<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What about the Growers of Mini Dahlias<\/h3>\n<p>This is a German product by trade supplier <a href=\"http:\/\/volmary.com\/erwerbsgartenbau\/wirueber.jsf\">Volmary<\/a> GmbH Munster<br \/>\nMini Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega\u00c2\u00ae is one of a series or range of varieties that includes:<br \/>\nDahlietta\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<br \/>\nDahlietta\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Surprise<br \/>\nFigaro Mix<br \/>\nGallery\u00c2\u00ae<br \/>\nHappy Day<br \/>\nLubega\u00c2\u00ae<br \/>\nLubega\u00c2\u00ae Mini with a Compact and well-branched habit of the mulitflora type<br \/>\nLubega\u00c2\u00ae Power<br \/>\nMelody<br \/>\nMr Fothergill sells seeds of Dahlia Dwarf Double Mixed (Dahlia x hortensis)<\/p>\n<h4>Some Other Dahlia Species<\/h4>\n<p>Dahlia coccinea, Dahlia variabilis<br \/>\nDahlia imperialis, Dahlia laciniata<br \/>\nDahlia rosea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Dahlia x hortensis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=dahlia\"> Dahlia seeds at Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13667\" title=\"Mini Dahlia\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mini-Dahlia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mini-Dahlia1.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mini-Dahlia1-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini Dahlia X Hortensis Lubega\u00c2\u00ae is the latest addition to my plants acquired due to aggressive marketing. As readers will know I like to test new plants but do not what too much marketing.<br \/>\nIn the garden centre it was on a tray marked \u00c2\u00a31.50 but was really \u00c2\u00a32.99 when I got to check out. This is another serious whinge of mine, duff pricing and or naff quality at garden centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}