{"id":6310,"date":"2026-08-23T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:53:57","slug":"first-dahlia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=6310","title":{"rendered":"First Dahlia"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?resize=695%2C502&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6311\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?resize=1024%2C739&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?resize=768%2C554&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?resize=1536%2C1109&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?resize=1100%2C794&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/first-dahlia-08_21_2026.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>White dahlia, white Zinnia and calendula<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of days ago, I finally cut the first dahlia of the season. I had planted them kind of late (May 28), but they have come up nicely. I have seven dahlia plants total in my garden plot. Looking forward to many more dahlia bouquets in the months to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?resize=695%2C579&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6315\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?resize=1024%2C853&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?resize=768%2C640&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?resize=1536%2C1279&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?resize=1100%2C916&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dahlia-Fleurel-08_23_2026.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>I think the variety is Fleurel<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the small bud vase myself at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpclay.com\/home\">JP Clay<\/a> where I have been a member since January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?resize=695%2C681&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6313\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?resize=1024%2C1004&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?resize=300%2C294&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?resize=768%2C753&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?resize=1100%2C1078&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?w=1465&amp;ssl=1 1465w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vase.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I finally cut the first dahlia of the season. I had planted them kind of late (May 28), but they have come up nicely. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,31,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating","category-flowers","category-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1DM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}