I’m the youngest of a family of 3 girls. We were known as the ‘Maltby Girls’, and we were very close in age and all looked very similar.
It used to really annoy me at high school that several teachers called me Miss Maltby (every other child in the class got called by their first name). Looking back, I think the teachers just couldn’t remember which of the Maltby Girls I was!
I don’t know if it was because it was the 70’s/80’s, or because we grew up on a market garden, but I would never have called us girly girls. There were very few dresses in our wardrobes, and I don’t think we owned anything pink!
So it’s a little bit ironic that Flora’s Little Miss Maltby is a beautiful soft shade of pink! She’s a pompom, and very productive. Like most pompom dahlias, she takes a bit of time to figure out how to pick to get long stems, or you can just grow her for a multitude of beautiful shorter stems for smaller arrangements. She’s a popular wedding colour! The slight yellow colouring in the centre is less pronounced in real life than in the photos…
P.S. No - this is no relation to the well known ‘Maltby Pearl’ dahlia. And as far as I know, we’re not related to whoever that was named after…not that I have investigated that yet…
P.P.S. Does anyone else remember the classic Mr Men and Little Miss books?
HOME TRUTHS ABOUT LITTLE MISS MALTBY
Approx Bloom Size, 4-6cm
Like all pale dahlias, prone to showing thrip damage (so keep those critters under control!)
Like most pompom dahlias, she produces many long, skinny tubers. These will need a bit more than a ‘throw them under the hedge and hope for the best’ storage system to prevent them from dehydrating too much.
I’m the youngest of a family of 3 girls. We were known as the ‘Maltby Girls’, and we were very close in age and all looked very similar.
It used to really annoy me at high school that several teachers called me Miss Maltby (every other child in the class got called by their first name). Looking back, I think the teachers just couldn’t remember which of the Maltby Girls I was!
I don’t know if it was because it was the 70’s/80’s, or because we grew up on a market garden, but I would never have called us girly girls. There were very few dresses in our wardrobes, and I don’t think we owned anything pink!
So it’s a little bit ironic that Flora’s Little Miss Maltby is a beautiful soft shade of pink! She’s a pompom, and very productive. Like most pompom dahlias, she takes a bit of time to figure out how to pick to get long stems, or you can just grow her for a multitude of beautiful shorter stems for smaller arrangements. She’s a popular wedding colour! The slight yellow colouring in the centre is less pronounced in real life than in the photos…
P.S. No - this is no relation to the well known ‘Maltby Pearl’ dahlia. And as far as I know, we’re not related to whoever that was named after…not that I have investigated that yet…
P.P.S. Does anyone else remember the classic Mr Men and Little Miss books?
HOME TRUTHS ABOUT LITTLE MISS MALTBY
Approx Bloom Size, 4-6cm
Like all pale dahlias, prone to showing thrip damage (so keep those critters under control!)
Like most pompom dahlias, she produces many long, skinny tubers. These will need a bit more than a ‘throw them under the hedge and hope for the best’ storage system to prevent them from dehydrating too much.
