Louise Brown is a relative newcomer to growing dahlias having started in 2005, the same year she joined RIDS. In 2004 she bought tubers at the hardware store for her son who liked growing things. When she saw his dahlias in bloom, she fell in love with them and has been growing them ever since. She grows about 25 plants of five varieties. She likes balls, pompons, straight and semi-cactus and peony forms. She has not yet dipped her toes into the show arena, but she does not rule it out in the future.