Cornell / East Meadow Farm beds all planted. Thanks to our great volunteers!

Garden enthusiast Alex Calamba stopped by our tuber sale table during SUNY Farmingdale’s Annual Plant Sale

The Mid Island Dahlia Society would like to extend a very special " Thank You" to  Espoma Organic Fertilizers for their generous donation of their outstanding products to our dahlia display gardens. Their generosity is greatly appreciated.

Tubers to be planted at Cornell / EMF are bagged up.

The Mid Island Dahlia Society would like to extend a special "Thank You" to Bluebird Moon Dahlias for their very generous donation of five(5) boxes of beautiful dahlia tubers to be grown in our display gardens. They are greatly appreciated.

New cut flower bed installed in Eisenhower Park.

Check out Sonia Harmon, CSDS’s article in the Midwest Dahlia Conference’s February Newsletter. She presents a timeline for planting cuttings, plants, tubers, and starting seeds.

A wet tuber will spread rot to other tubers. This is why it is important to check on stored tubers.

MIDS volunteers have closed the 2024 Callahan Garden season. On Dec. 4 the last of the tubers were trimmed and labeled in the production greenhouse and sent over to the root cellar for storage. Many thanks to everyone: volunteers, NYS Park and PF personnel, who joined in this effort. In March, we start again!

Thank you to MIDS volunteers who trimmed and bagged the Eisenhower and Cornell / EMF garden tubers. Tubers are now stored for the 2025 season.

Robert takes 1st Place in the Dahlia Society of Ohio’s annual dahlia photo contest in the ‘Critters and People’ category.

Check out the detailed articles from the NEW England Dahlia Society (NEDS) in the Dahlia Care section / Seasonal Articles page. There are very detailed articles of digging up, trimming, and storing your tubers.

Did you know October 31st is the midway point between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. Reflects our garden journey transitioning between the summer blooms and settling our tubers in for their long winter’s nap.

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It’s a wrap at Eisenhower … tubers dug up and cleaned. Next task - trimming and readying for storage.

Many thanks to all those who contributed to the Show’s success. Here is the list of Show patrons.

Leap’s arrangement demo

Alex Calamia’s interview

Kathy Feher, Planting Fields greenhouse