The dahlia grower’s almanac

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Every variety you grow. Everything you learn. One quiet place.
01 · The catalog

Start with 12,000 named dahlias

The full ADS listing plus boutique growers, searchable by form, size, and color. Found the one? It joins your garden in a tap.

Catalog12,200 cultivars
Café au Lait
BB · Informal decorative
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Thomas A. Edison
B · Formal decorative
Add to my garden
Cornel Bronze
BB · Ball
Add to my garden
Jowey Winnie
BB · Ball
Add to my garden
Ivanetti
BB · Ball
Add to my garden
Sweet Nathalie
BB · Formal decorative
Add to my garden
02 · My dahlias

A library that remembers

Each variety keeps its own page — season recaps, tuber counts, where it’s stored for winter. The knowledge outlives the season.

Café au Lait Keep
First bloomJuly 28
Season recapStake early — worth every stem
Tubers on hand14
Winter storageBasement, crate 2
03 · Growing areas

Map every bed

Lay out your garden — or your farm — and every planting knows where it lives. Milestones like pinching are one tap from the map.

Bed 118 plants
Bed 212 plants
Bed 324 plants
Tunnel30 plants
Bed 3 pinched · July 1
04 · The growing calendar

Know what this week wants

A growing calendar tuned to your plantings and your season — with email and push reminders so the garden never has to wait on your memory.

This weekWeek of July 20
Pinch Café au Lait — Bed 3Today
Deep-water the tunnelToday
Set stakes — Bed 1Thu
Disbud for the county showSat
05 · Notes from the field

Muddy hands, clean notes

Dictate from a locked phone, mid-row. Bloomanac files the note to the right bed and variety on its own.

Locked phone · dictating
“First bloom on the café au lait in bed three — petals a touch pale, water more.”
VoiceBed 3Café au LaitJuly 22
First bloom — petals a touch pale, water more.
06 · Ask Sage

An advisor who knows your garden

Sage answers with your beds, your varieties, and your season in mind — from “what’s wrong with this leaf?” to planning next spring.

My Jowey Winnie leaves are curling — what should I check?
Sage
Mid-July curl in Bed 2 is usually thirst or thrips. Check the undersides first — if they’re clean, give the bed a slow, deep soak and look again in two days.
Diagnose a photo Plan my beds This week’s advisory

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