Fall MDS Show Signup We continue celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Minnesota Dahlia Society with the Year of the Dahlia. This is the smaller, more relaxed Dahlia show. The main purpose is to give growers and judges more experience. Our fall show takes place Saturday and Sunday, September 14 – 15, 2019 at Bachman’s Garden Center, Heritage Room, 6010 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis. The Heritage Room is in the back of the garden center, behind the shade plants, in the bui

State Fair Show Volunteer Signup Our State Fair Dahlia Show takes place on Sunday, September 1st through Monday, September 2nd (Labor Day) at the Minnesota State Fair. Our show is one of the most popular ones for the public. We count on our membership to assist in making this show a success. The State Fair pays us a stipend for putting on this show and we need to make sure everything goes smoothly and that we have members staffing the flower rooms during the times the publ

Stuff that would be great but may not get done without You Help unload the trailer – Arnie, Eric, Kathy, Byron, Becca, Amy. <done> New Section Signs – Amy <done> Court of Honor Plaques – Kathy Thomson <done> New Photo category signs – Kathy Thomson <done> 90 Year Anniversary signs <done> Artistic Arrangement signs – Kathy Thomson <done> New MDS signs for each room (14 x 22) – Eric Thomson <done> People Choice Box – Kathy Thomson <done> Foam wedges – Becca Jacobson <done

Tuber Bagging was a Party! Sunday, April 7th Tuber Bagging Party  We all got together and got it done. #bagging #Volunteer

Tuber Bagging Party Sunday, April 7th Tuber Bagging Party  Sorry we could not get this venue on Saturday. Location: The National Association of Letter Carriers Bldg, (same as last year) 1715 Van Dyke St, Maplewood, MN 55109. Near the intersection of White Bear Lake Ave and Larpenteur Ave. Meeting from 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Followed by judges meeting, with lunch. Agenda: Judging Multiple Bloom Containers. Any interested individuals are always welcome. #sale #Volunteer #tubers #Su

Tuber Bagging Party Saturday, April 7th- Tuber Bagging Party Location: The National Association of Letter Carriers Bldg, (same as last year) 1715 Van Dyke St, Maplewood, MN 55109. Near the intersection of White Bear Lake Ave and Larpenteur Ave. Meeting from 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Followed by judges meeting, with lunch. Agenda: Judging Multiple Bloom Containers. Any interested individuals are always welcome. #bagging #sale #tubers #Volunteer

Tuber Bagging Party Saturday, April 8th- Tuber Bagging Party Location: The National Association of Letter Carriers Bldg, (same as last year) 1715 Van Dyke St, Maplewood, MN 55109. Near the intersection of White Bear Lake Ave and Larpenteur Ave. Meeting from 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Large turn out made the work go quickly, bagging more than 2300 tubers,  and was more fun. Thanks everyone! Tuber Sale 2017 #bagging #sale #tubers #Volunteer

You are invited to sign up for a time and role at our annual MDS Tuber Sale. This is a great opportunity to participate and help the club and it is just for a couple hours on this one day. We really value you and want to include you. Click the button below to open up SignUpGenius in another window. Choose the time and role you want. If you have facebook open you can login with that option and without entering any more information. Otherwise, this first time you need to create

Saturday, April 15th Bachman’s Garden Center, Heritage Room. 6010 Lyndale Ave, South Minneapolis, MN Setup and Pre-sale for MDS Members 7:00 a.m. Open to the Public 9:00 – 3:00 Support the club and get show grade Dahlia tubers, for less. This year for the first time ever, we will also offer some live plant starts for: NTAC Patricia (Dahlia of the Year) Tuber-sale-2017 brochure Volunteer for the Tuber Bagging Party Event Flyer Tuber List with Links to Photos Tuber List

TEAM 1 Becka and Byron Jacobson Harry Garnett Pixie Pixler Johnnie Workman TEAM 2    Larry Bagge Peggy Betsch Carolyn Farley Joe & Karen Hauwiller Terri Lambert John Kooiman Chuck Spragg TEAM 3    Karen Zierdt Carolyn Koehler Mary Montagne Gregg Sougstad Rick Snyder Heidi Zierdt Erica Lawrenz Amy Simonson Larry Sims Mary Walker TEAM 4 Curt Carlson Kyle Cassidy Sherrie Dahlin Vincent Dam Chuck Krueger Karen Loney Ed Martens Pixie Pixler Mary and Arn

The Dahlia Trial Garden at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum will be planted with tubers on May 21, 2016. (In case of rain, planting will be on May 28, 2016 instead). Volunteers are requested at 9:00 a.m. There will be 15 varieties planted. Members are encouraged to sign up for volunteer work at the garden during the summer. We will be posting a sign up schedule soon. #planting #trialgarden #Volunteer

Spring Tuber Sale 2016 Saturday, April 9th, at Bachman’s Garden Center. Heritage Room. 6010 Lyndale Ave, South Minneapolis, MN Support the club and get show grade Dahlia tubers, for less. 8:30  pre-sale to members who help set up. 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Sale open to the public. Sale Flyer Every variety name in the list, is a link to a photo on a website. Thanks Dell for adding this feature. Thanks to John and Kyle for purchasing the inventory and putting together the original list

Tuber Bagging Party Saturday, April 2nd- Tuber Bagging Party 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Location: The National Association of Letter Carriers Bldg, 1715 Van Dyke St, Maplewood, MN 55109. Near the intersection of White Bear Lake Ave and Larpenteur Ave Tuber Sale 2016 #sale #tubers #Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers to help maintain the dahlia trial garden at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Learn from experts to plant, pinch, dis-bud, tie, and take care of dahlias. We provide an important service to the dahlia community by allowing growers to test their new offerings in a clinical manner to determine which ones become commercially available. There will be four teams, so each team only has to go out once a month. Entrance to the Arb is free for volunteers,

Our brother-in-law, John, the bee guy, is also a dahlia guy.  He puts hundreds of hours each summer into growing beautiful dahlias in gardens around his house (below).  The annual pinnacle of his dahlia addiction is a showing and judging at the MN State Fair. Last night my cell phone rang at 7:15pm.  I could see it was John calling.  He asked me what I had planned for the night – a loaded question that I didn’t know how to answer. John already had two SUVs full of 5-gallon bu