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Pictures of your dahlias, please.

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    That's a great selection @Janie B - I'm sighing over coffee colours too. :D
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    So, if I were to put together a collection of suitably muted coffee / rose coloured dahlias for next year, I'd clearly have to include Cafe au Lait, and then maybe @Camelliad's and @Uncle Mort 's Eveline, and @celcius_kkw's Wizard of Oz and Cafe au Lait Royale, then @Perki's Bishop of Dover would be good for the bees. I'd need something a little darker raspberry coloured too, I think... any ideas...? 
    Lincolnshire
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2021
    I'm looking at Admiral Rawlings and Creme de Cognac
    @Janie B - trying stay away from pink-pink and going for dark raspberry. Possibly with dark raspberry cosmos - tall, late-flowering cosmos trees.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    @Allotment Boy That looks like Penhill Watermelon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I will take your word for it.
    These are on my Allotment,  grown from the free seeds.  Mignon mixed, I normally grow for cut flowers at the plots,  didn't realise they were more bedding type.  Ahh well the bees LOVE  them. 

    AB Still learning

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I've grown Mignon and other bedding dahlias this year, not realising they were "bedding" and can't say I've been very impressed. The flowers last a day and are on stumpy little stems.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Yes they are on short stems but the flowers last more than a day for me. Lots of them too. Probably won't grow again but there is. 
    AB Still learning

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I agree. It's been interesting to try out.
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