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2020 Meetings Cancelled
All general meetings and the picnic are cancelled, until further notice. We do have some good articles on planting and John Kooiman is...
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May 11, 20201 min read
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2020 March General Meeting
Monday, March 9 – General Meeting and Potluck Dinner 6:15 p.m. at Oak Grove Lutheran Church Education Topic: Members Vincent, Byron,...
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Mar 9, 20201 min read
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Mid-Winter Dahlia Garden Prep
It’s the time of year when the holidays are over and we hit the mid-winter lull. Now is the best time to start planning and preparing...
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Feb 6, 20202 min read
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2020 February General Meeting
Ask Dahlia Del General Meeting and Potluck Dinner 6:15 p.m. The first general meeting of the year will be held Monday Feb 10th – General...
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Jan 30, 20201 min read
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2020 MDS Dahlia of the Year
Weston Spanish Dancer Weston Spanish Dancer was selected as the Minnesota Dahlia Society’s 2020 Dahlia of the Year. This dahlia’s title...
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Dec 20, 20191 min read
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ADS 2019 Show Results
The American Dahlia Society published their December Bulletin and special 2019 Results. There was a lot of confusion and conflicting...
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Dec 18, 20191 min read
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2019 Christmas Party
Monday, December 9 – General Meeting Location: Oak Grove Lutheran Church, 7045 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55423 Construction on...
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Nov 22, 20191 min read
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2019 Awards Dinner RSVP form
Sunday, November 10th, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. (arrive promptly to get a parking spot in the lot, otherwise park on 7th street) DeGidio’s in...
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Oct 21, 20191 min read
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2019 Annual Awards Dinner
2019 Annual Awards Dinner – Sunday November 10th Please mark your calendars and plan to join fellow members in reviewing and sharing this...
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Oct 21, 20191 min read
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2019 Court of Honor Reports
The following is the report that we send to the ADS to be published on their website. It covers both shows. It is only for the Court of...
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Oct 9, 20191 min read
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Oct 14, 2019 General Meeting
General Meeting and Potluck Dinner 6:15 p.m. Construction on Lyndale Ave so if coming from north, drive south on Nicollet the west on...
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Oct 1, 20192 min read
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Visit Jerry Hass
We visited the dahlia farm of Jerry Hass in Montrose on our garden tour earlier this year but there was not as many blooms as we would...
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Sep 29, 20191 min read
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Shredded Foam for Staging
A couple years ago when I was at the National Show in Chicago, Elva Sellens, from Portland, OR (now the ADS membership chair) told me...
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Sep 22, 20193 min read
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2019 Fall Show Bloom Count
We finished entering all the results from the show at Bachman’s and now have the tally for the total number of blooms entered...
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Sep 19, 20191 min read
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2019 Other Winners
Here is the list of Winners that were not included in the Court of Honor report. You will have to look up your name by your exhibitor...
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Sep 15, 20191 min read
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2019 State Fair COH & Bloom Count
The bloom count was 1670. This includes containers and arrangements which include multiple blooms. Here is the Court of Honor report for...
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Sep 8, 20191 min read
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People’s Choice Winner 2019
People’s Choice 2019 Results Every year at our State Fair Show we have a section called the People’s Choice section in which the public...
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Sep 1, 20191 min read
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2019 Fall Show Volunteer Signup
Fall MDS Show Signup We continue celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Minnesota Dahlia Society with the Year of the Dahlia. This is...
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Aug 29, 20193 min read
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History of the ADS
“WANTED: AN AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY” In the October 1914 issue of Florist’s Exchange, its Editor, J. Harrison Dick, wrote an article with...
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Aug 28, 20192 min read
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See our Dahlia Garden at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair
In celebration of our 90th Anniversary, Del Hampton, one of our members adopted a dahlia garden on the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. he...
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Aug 22, 20191 min read
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