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With the garden remodelling we have started this year, I was determined to include many dahlias for autumn colour and of course for cutting.[blank]
Next week I’ll be showing you my favourite varieties, but for now here is my brightest star, cut and popped into an old fashioned pudding bowl as a vase![blank]
I bought the tuber for this dahlia quite by chance. In a local supermarket, late in the planting season, they had thrown together all the unsold bulbs and I happily sorted a few.[blank]
This baby produced such stunning blooms that I was careful to lift the tuber at the end of the year, and label carefully before storing in our wine cellar, away from the frost.[blank]
When I pulled it out in spring it was big enough to divide into four separate plants, so this year I’ll have plenty of blooms.[blank]
[blank]I just love the gentle colour of the petals and
their texture and generosity ….
their texture and generosity ….
so I ask you: is the dahlia the peony of autumn?[blank]
55 comments
Those are absolutely gorgeous…I love that you have a dahlia cave. 🙂
Sharon ~ I adore dahlias!!! However, I have never seen one quite as beautiful as this one……such soft, gentle colors and the petals are glorious!!! Enjoy to your hearts content!!
I shall terribly miss meeting you this fall and doing ll the amazing things you have planned!! Hopefully, next year I can join you!!
My very best wishes to you and your husband!!!
Hello Sharon
The colour is absolutely breath taking.
It was well worth treasuring the tuber
Helen
Meravigliose!
Ciao:)
Luci@
Dear Sharon,
just want to let you know that today you can see a little bit of my garden at https://www.vintagelover.cz/
Warmest greeting from Czech Republic,
Daniela
I have never seen a dahlia that color! Now I want one!
I think they are the peonies of summer….I love dahlias and use them whenever I can for wedding bouquets….is yours Cafe au Lait….?….stunning! N.xo
Those are stunning. How did you store it in the cellar?
The texture of this gorgeous bloom is that of silk, ribbon, or some other fine French textile! Lovely way to start my Friday, here chez vous Madame! Anita
Sharon, I am in awe of your gardening skills. These dahlias are heavenly. My little city postage stamp of a yard doesn't have much room for a cutting garden, so I'm quite happy to live vicariously through you and your beautiful blooms.
Hope your weekend is just as gorgeous! XO
I love your Dahlia's such sweet colours! I totally adore peonies too though!
Gorgeous!
Enjoy your weekend!
I love your Dahlia's such sweet colours! I totally adore peonies too though!
Gorgeous!
Enjoy your weekend!
Yes, and I think you chose the prettiest one. She looks like she could be a ballerina in her tutu.
This is the MOST beautiful color ever. Did you ever hear from the jewelry winner on her address? I'm home Monday afternoon. xx's
Yes! I just did a photo shoot and since dahlia's are in season I chose to use them. They were SO AMAZING! Always one of my favorites but I seem to forget about them sometimes. These are beautiful, how lucky to have them in your yard!
I found the photos of these flowers on Pinterest… and they take my breath away. Your blog looks so pretty! I can't wait to read more posts!
Cindy
That is the most beautiful dahlia I've ever seen. Some are plate sized.
Your blog is gorgeous. Love these dahlias…
Gorgemous! My m-i-l is getting into dahlias, so I've been looking around for them. But I've never seen such a subtle beauty! Most dahlias are strongly coloured, at least the one on offer here in California. Which isn't a problem, but the delicate tint of your dahlias is something special. If you can tell us the name of the variety, please do!
a dahlia cave! … that's what I'll call it from now on, thank you!
Hi Barbara, this one really is a beauty isn't it …. maybe if you come next year, I'll have a tuber for you to take home with you!
best wishes
Sharon
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thank you Helen, just hope the colour doesn't change with time
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grazie!
ciao
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Thank you Daniela, I took a look at your site and I love the pictures of your garden and home
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I think I should be marketing this one Betsy!
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I can't remember its name Nella, if I had known it was going to be this beautiful I would have kept a careful note
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To store the dahlia tubers, I lift them from the ground once they have finished the season and the grren stalks have died back. I label them and simply lay them on sheets of newspaper inside wooden crates.
The labelling is important if you want to know what you are planting the next spring 🙂
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Thank you Anita, the petals do indeed look like a fine silk
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Hey Jeanne, this is nothing to do with skill. Just plant a tuber, give it a drink and wish it well and it goes for gold
have a lovely weekend
Sharon
me too Sandy, but I can't have peonies in August!
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exactly M, this is totally a tutu sort of colour and shape
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Glad you like it Marsha … we're chatting on Monday
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and they come in so many colours, I just love them.
Dahlias grow very well in our climate here in Normandy, so I am lucky
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Thank you Cindy, I hope you enjoy looking around
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Hi Donna, the blooms are enormous, easily 7" wide
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Thank you Michelle, have a good weekend
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I am sorry Jennifer, I honestly don't remember. A reader has suggested it may be 'café au lait'
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Hi Sharon that is one beautiful Dahlia and the way you have photographed them we all want to go out and plant Dahlias just like this beauty. I have the Bambino Dahlias in our garden they have done well. We have a nursery over here that offers French Delbard roses and they also offer French Dahlia which I found absolutely beautiful, after your always beautiful blog I am going to be brave and try to grow the larger Dahlias ….wish me luck. Thank you for sharing and have a beautiful weekend. Regards Esther from Sydney…here comes Spring.
The colors of your dahlia are simply lovely; usually, they're bright and often a bit garish. With these, I'm an instant convert. Thanks for such beautiful pictures.
I do love dahlias, but I've never had the patience for lifting and storing — and our winters are simply too wet, even when they're not too cold, for dahlias to be happy in the ground all winter.
Yours are spectacularly gorgeous — what a sumptuous colour. But for me, they lack one thing that would justify a comparison with peonies — fragrance!
Simply stunning. That has to be one of the most beautiful dahlias I have ever seen. Gorgeous photos. I could totally buy them as the peonies of autumn.
Hi Sharon, When I'm buying flowers, I normally walk right past the buckets of dahlias, as they're often in strident colours, like rust and mustard, but this is like the colour of an old rose. Very pretty!
Cheers,
Deborah from Melbourne
Your photos are stunning! I hope you don't mind if I Pin a few of them…
regards from New York
Emily @ Town And Country Shuffle
Sharon, I live in Mississippi and was gifted 10 dahlia tubers a few years ago. I wrote a post this past week about my dahlias which have finally this year been glorious! Yes! The peony of autumn – I love it!
I love that shade! I so wish I had one. I have a deep purple that is stunning but oh I love your variety! Enjoy!
These are stunning Sharon. Remind me of peaked tufts of cotton candy only sweeter! XO
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!
Do we know the name ????
What a gorgeous dahlia! Our growing season has been bizarre here in massachusetts, hoping for at least one before frost!
Absolutely adore peonies, with dahlias runni ng a close second:-) What a beautiful color! Love that pale pink that reminds us of our grandmothers! And yes, what is the name? Carol P.
Oh yes! They remind one of silk, and cotton candy, old roses and grandma's softly powdered cheek, just as your readers have so aptly described. My father grew dinner plate dahlias and won a blue ribbon for his at the county fair once. He was so proud of that ribbon. I think yours deserve a blue ribbon too.
At last I'm able to post comments again, something has been going wrong since blogger changed. Your pale pink dahlias are gorgeous, certainly on par with the peony, You have certainly made me change my mind about them, I've always thought they were big & blousy, not my style, but this pale hue has won me over. have you managed to find the name of it ?
I am normally a lover of darker coloured flowers but these are absolutely stunning! My grandmother used to grow both dahlias and 'peony roses' so these beautiful pictures have brought back some lovely memories for me this morning. Thank you. 🙂
Simply stunning!
Judith
So beautiful Sharon…I do not think I have seen anything like it before…I think I would want to dedicate an entire bed to them. Thanks so much for stopping by recently, I think of you often and always enjoy every post that comes my way. Best wishes…xxx
They are gorgeous!
Growing up I didn't much care for Dahlias. I had had way too much of them in our British colonial house in Calcutta. They almost appeared too 'cheap' to me…that is how me (I) as a little girl had pictured them. Large and way too bold.
In Sweden I get to see them every morning and am now beginning to like them a lot more (some 40+yrs later). The peonies are over and Dahlias shoot out tallest (and from the center) of carefully planned floral circles. The colors are also far softer, like the ones you've picked!