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Dahlia Cafe au lait royal - how clever is nature, bet I won’t get another one of these!

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @Bede try "sense of wonder"
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Aesthetically, it's rather nice.  But why use "wonder" when you can use "knowledge".
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Red mapleRed maple Posts: 1,138
    Well whether it’s clever nature (which I like to think it is), or just a genetic mistake, I think your dahlia looks very pretty and unusual, @ k.e.r. Sometimes, these mutations are pretty impressive.  :)

  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    As we are being pedantic, it's more of a 90' slice, not 45'.  :)
    Sunny Dundee
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @bede Are you not full of wonder in the world?
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    As we are being pedantic, it's more of a 90' slice, not 45'.  :)
    Whoops. Sorry.  Too quick and ill considered.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    punkdoc said:
    1.  Without wonder, we cease to evolve and would lose our humanity.
    Also, to be pedantic, if you wanted to tissue culture a Dahlia, you would not use cells from a flower.
    1.  A bit cryptic.  But I am tempted to disagree.

    2.  If you wanted to just tissue culture a Dahlia, no.  I wou;d choose the growing point.  But if you wanted to catch the particular genes responsible for this particular break, how else but from where it is all happening?
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • That is gorgeous! 
    It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
  • Somebody forgot to stir! :D
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