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Need help ID plant - easy one.
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Posted by
dsumma z5a CT (
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Sun, Jul 3, 11 at 16:38
| Hello All,
This should be easy for many of you :-)...but I have no idea.
Thanks so much,
Diane
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RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| This is a Dahlia. Do not know a name of the variety, but folks from Dahlia forum are very knowledgeable. And here is your picture: 
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RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| Dahlia 'Bishop of York'? Annette |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| I do not think Bishop of York has those red parts on its petals. |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| It could be that it's a seedling, one of the bishops children strain.... love the dark leaves, I have a bunch coming along but they're not as far yet. Is it perennial for you? |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| It is definitely not perennial in zone 5. I have a couple of Bishop Dahlias. The only Dahlia that survived zone 6/7 winter is the one planted next to the house foundation. |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| This was planted in Newport, RI; saw it on a garden tour. Newport is probably more zone 6 than 5, but even finding out that it is a dahilia is more than I knew before :-) Thanks,
Diane |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| You can grow Dahlias for many years if you dig up tubers before hard frosts and store them during winters. |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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This looks pretty identical to one I bought this year:
"Mystic Spirit." |
RE: Need help ID plant - easy one.
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| Just Googled Mystic Spirit and that's it. A beautiful plant. Dahlia are not hardy north of (I think) Z9, but can be dug up and tubers kept inside till spring. |
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