To Buy Or Not To Buy : This Is The Question

As we come to another growing season the dahlia catalogues start to fall through the letter boxes, looking through them we start to work out what to grow next year and what varieties to discard. If you try a brand new one try and find out something about it first. I have purchased new ones on several occasions that have looked good on the show bench only to find out that I paid good money for poor stock, two varieties vanished from the catalogues within two years and another has turned out to be another run of the mill dahlias, so from now on I wait two or three years to see how good one performs, that I fancy. I don’t seethe point of discarding something that is performing well for me, for a dahlia that has not yet proved it is going to be good. Well done committee members on winning a gold medal certificate at Ambleside, sorry I could not give a hand this year, but intend to be back next time. Hope to see you all at Hilltop tuber sale in December, and good luck with your growing next year.