Sharon, oh!!! Rock and roll. I can't believe the magnificence of those ladies!!! I germinated and grew about 100 of the seeds that you gave me. My Sister went to town and got the seedlings in the ground long before this lazy girl got hers in. I am not even sure if these plants will mature to bring on flowers or not, my Sister's certainly will. I have to be careful when I take pictures of hers, because I know that she purchased some dahlia tubers too, so careful I must be. My dahlias are growing, slowly but surely. They have had a lovely feed of fish emulsion, like you said, that should get their tubers forming fast and furious. I bet you will be a proud mamma of many dahlia plants, all over this country, hee, hee. Beautiful pictures, by the way, girl. Have that most beautiful day, to live and love like their narry was a tomorrow. Cindi