Thank you all, in particular Geof with " I quite I like it." Should sports me renamed? I'm at times caught in a bind with the Id issue. This summer, my proportion of Noids plus singles as usual outweigh the named individuals. Yet there are quite a few that I really like and will like to multiply and surely I will. Perhaps one day they get named meanwhile, should we just name with Quotes? Should we consider that as a fun game? I fully understand the value for horticulture and the trade, naming reliably cultivars. But those others should we discard them ?. Obviously on the private personal level, NO, after all I doubt that when in bloom dahlias are at all aware of what we as a species name them.
On the other hand perhaps as crew members of the world's Noah' Ark we could just for the fun device a provisional system that we could share with others. Something half way from full registry . Perhaps others have found a somewhere in the middle path, with the Id question; but dahlias with their enormous genetic variability are a real teaser. Hopefully sooner than later I'll try to get hold a minimally decent digital camera so that I can upload pics of those that at least I want to keep and will identify somewhow. (I belong to the group that was reluctant to jump onto digital photography initially and still has an old film Nikon camera with those wonderful optical lenses that used to be very costly. I've yet to jump over to the already not so new technology...
I still prefer to spend my time with my plants even though I fully value pics and the incredible stimulus that it provides to gardeners and students everywhere.)
