Dahlias

[kedigato]

Saw all of these beautiful dahlias in Bourtange, Holland last Friday. I was especially taken with the peach-coloured ones, had never seen quite this colour before. Unfortunately, they look a bit pinkish in the photos.


Peach coloured dahlia -





Lilac dahlia -





Crimson dahlia -





Red dahlia -





A huge white filled dahlia with the edges tinged lilac -

[nazimundo]

Beautiful Kedi, these are one of my all time favourite flowers, really like the last one

Alfie

[victoria]

They are just gorgeous Sis. I like the spikey ones and in particular the last one tinged with lilac. I have only seen them once here at a house in Alte that backs onto the river.

If you remember, Lynne Swain's father grew them en masse and used to give me buckets full. Thanks for sharing those, that's a real treat for me.

[DAG]

These are my all time favourites as well, but I really like the first one.

I tried to start some old dahlia seeds off recently but they didn't take so out of luck this year.

[kedigato]

Thanks Alfie, Sis and DAG.

We used to have all sorts and colours of dahlies many years ago and they did put on a wonderful show. Peter took them up and carefully put them away before the first frost and they did well for a long while. Then they started to get less, until there were no more, don't know why.

I never heard of growing them from seeds, DAG, nor even ever seeing such. Thought they always came as tubers. Did you used to grow yours like that then or was it a one-time try?

[DAG]

I started them off from seed one year and left them in the ground for several years and some I dug up this year to clear some uncontrollable weeds and start again thinking that I could just replace them from an old seed packet but not so.