Ruud Kleinpaste: Getting into Dahlias

Just have a look, will you! Just when you think the Dahlias are on their way out, you’re asked to come to the Botanic Gardens in Christchurch or a local beauty garden, somewhere nearby. 

A series of colourful plants that shows you a range that’s totally unexpected – how do you get these at your place? 

From left to right: Mick’s Peppermint, PomPom Rusty Orange, Le Baron, and KennemerLand Cactus.

Currently it’s still “growing time”, or seriously, keeping the plants producing before the beginning of winter. Generally speaking, the Tubers won’t be available until mid-winter. 

Some varieties are able to be planted slightly earlier, others a bit earlier – just ask the people who produce the next generation. 

That means we have still plenty of time to go and visit the various Dalianthic “Hot Spot” and order the beauties you are looking forward to growing – Oderings, Dahlia Tubers, Stillwater Flowers, DahliasNZ.com, Mitre 10, Apollo Farm, etc. 

Bluetiful Dahlia   

Springtime is the planting time of the Tubers – no more frosts, etc. 

Plant about half a meter apart in well-drained soils, containing good compost with great fertilisers in the soil, where the new plants will benefit from the next level of NPK. All the fertilisers will be used to create new parts of the plants. Support them if they grow upward in a hurry, as some often do… 

Give them a good watering from time to time. They can be grown as Potted Dahlias, especially if the potting mix is of great quality. 

Once you start with Dahlias, you’ll never forget this colourful movement ever again! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Route Climb passes our Man in the Garden.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, sir, A very good curto to you. Is
everything all right?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, yeah, very well.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
So I was at my sister's last weekend for Easter weekend,
and she is like an absolute star in the garden.
In fact, she actually she grows flowers and she sells
them from a little honesty box in front of in
front of her house. And of course the season starting
to turn et cetera, et cetera. But as I was
walking around to her garden, she was giving me a
bit of a tour of things. I was absolutely blown
away by the dahlias. But still, this late in the season,

(00:44):
it really is quite amazing.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well that's it. That's exactly what we can talk about
because it still keeps on going. Been here in christ Church.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really yeah, okay, so yeah, I mean it is starting
to get pretty cool. I mean we've had daylight saving.
I know that that's not necessarily the marker of the
change in the seasons, but usually it's a bit of
an indication that things are changing.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
No, you're absolutely right, but there are still dozens and
dozens of varieties that are actually very common here, even
in the botanic gardens. And so that is the point.
The point is you want to get into get to dahlias,
go and have a look at the botanic gardens, go
and have a look at the various places that have good,
good plants like that, and then literally take the photos

(01:30):
and get on with it. And that's what this is about.
So I'll give you an example. I've got the mixed
peppermint and the pom pom. Rusty got these names, I know,
I know, the life yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, and
le Baron which is very nice and purple deep. And

(01:51):
for the Dutch people, cannamar Land Coctus and cannamer Land
is actually one of the Dutch places. You know. It's
actually literally a piece of land where the water is
quite high. Anyway, currently it's still growing time. That is
the message that you and I've just got from this
last week. That's still growing time. And to be serious,

(02:12):
you know, we need to keep those plants producing before
the winter starts. So there you are if you find yeah,
so if you find the place the things that you
want to go and and I call them daily and
thick hot spots as daily are, you know, and you
get your orders in now. If you like old drinks,

(02:32):
dailier tubers, still water flowers, you know them all mighty
then and all that, And basically that's the way to go.
Once you start in daily as you'll never ever forget
how to do it to be quite beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Springtime to time to plant the right.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I was just going to say, that's the point, the
big point. But you've got to actually get those things
organized first, start them in springtime a where you go
the fertilizer is good, to use new parts, new plants,
next level NPK as I call it. And basically you
can even do the mis potted dahlias. That's a nice one, Jack.

(03:13):
You can actually have them, you know, if they even
if it gets shitty weather, you can put them in
a more shielded position in a pottert dahlia, especially when
the potting mixes of good condition. So I would say,
don't wait, have a go very good.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Hey, thank you so much, Rude. I appreciate that. We'll
put those varietals up on the news Talks website. You
can have a look at some of the photos too.
They really are gorgeous. So getting organized now so you've
got your seeds for spring makes a lot of sense, right, absolutely,
very good, Thank you Rude. Speaking of getting organized, and
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