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Garden Master
After I'd taken more than a half dozen pictures of the dahlias thru the growing season, I was inspired to put a few of them together.
The earliest photograph has the "weeds" and Asian greens a week or more before the dahlias began to show up. Many of those greens were harvested & the remainder went to the compost. We then move quickly to the growing dahlias and the first blooms. The final 3 pictures are all from the last few weeks.
Right now, we are entering the peak of the dahlia season. Fortunately, the mid-September frost here just damaged a few of the tallest flowers and even they recovered.
Many flowers have come out of this dahlia cutting garden
. There are more to come but when cold weather arrives, even without a frost, the plants will sloooooow and the blooming season will come to an end.
Yes, nearly half the plants are one variety: Show 'n' Tell. They are very popular and do very well here. Still, I think that more of some of the others should be saved or, more tubers purchased for 2013. I believe that I once figured out that there are about 30 varieties and a little too much has gone to Show 'n' Tell
.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrgW0q3_-XA[/youtube]
The music is by composer Maurice Ravel, Ma mre l'oye (Mother Goose). He originally wrote it for his 2 young children to play on the piano as a duet.
Steve
The earliest photograph has the "weeds" and Asian greens a week or more before the dahlias began to show up. Many of those greens were harvested & the remainder went to the compost. We then move quickly to the growing dahlias and the first blooms. The final 3 pictures are all from the last few weeks.
Right now, we are entering the peak of the dahlia season. Fortunately, the mid-September frost here just damaged a few of the tallest flowers and even they recovered.
Many flowers have come out of this dahlia cutting garden
. There are more to come but when cold weather arrives, even without a frost, the plants will sloooooow and the blooming season will come to an end.Yes, nearly half the plants are one variety: Show 'n' Tell. They are very popular and do very well here. Still, I think that more of some of the others should be saved or, more tubers purchased for 2013. I believe that I once figured out that there are about 30 varieties and a little too much has gone to Show 'n' Tell
.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrgW0q3_-XA[/youtube]
The music is by composer Maurice Ravel, Ma mre l'oye (Mother Goose). He originally wrote it for his 2 young children to play on the piano as a duet.
Steve
