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Dahlia Show is Open to Everyone
This is just a reminder that the Victoria Dahlia Society Show is free for anyone to enter. You do not have to be a Society member, you just need to have some dahlias in your garden. You also don’t have to have any experience showing dahlias as there are many Society members who would be…
Connie’s Winning Blooms Featured in the Times Colonist
Link to Times-Colonist article
Starting Dahlias From Seed – March 2013 Meeting
This year, for fun, we are encouraging our members to grow dahlias from seed to see what flowers they might get. In September, we will have an informal flower show where members can show off their favourite blooms (judging will be by popular choice, ie what people like just by looking, and not by ADS…
2016 Show Results
Here is the 2016 Victoria Dahlia Society Show – Winners List
Samples of the dahlia tubers and plants that will be available at our sale
The most popular sell out early and stock is always dependent on how well the tubers overwintered. Here are some that are commonly available.
A Brief History of the VDS
In 1946 the Victoria Gladiolus Club was created and it held annual shows in the Crystal Gardens. In 1951 or 1952 two Club members, Bill Kempster and Dorothy Eveleigh started growing dahlias and exhibiting them in the Club shows which were then held in the Victoria Curling Rink. At about this time the Club changed…