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Dedicated to my New Zealand TL-friends…and get well soon dear Janice!
Flamboyant? No… no… that’s not me the Green Baron, I’m more the one from the Brussels Sprout you know! Nevertheless this posting is because several of my dear TL-friends particular those from New Zealand like Janice, Sweety (Puffy), Dawn and also many other members from all over the world post such magnificent flower so I want to join them :)
Janice I hope this cheers you up a bit.
The picture of this Dahlia (I believe I’m a total barbarian regarding the ‘brands’ of flowers. For me flowers are beautiful or faded and I was corrected by Evgenia. At first I wrote about a Chrysanthemum which prove my garden barbarism so I correted the text Thanks dear Evginia you safed me from being a global flower fool on TL ;) I took this picture in a garden near the steam pumps from the Haarlemmermeer in Cruqius; see also the picture of a part of this garden in the WS.
So no philosophical reflections today in my note, no big stories about what happened. Quite boring but I like to know what you think about this posting.
PS-talk:
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Dahlia
Dahlia is a genus of bushy, summer- and autumn-flowering, tuberous perennials that are originally from Mexico, where they are the national flower. The Spanish discovered dahlias in the mountains of Mexico.
In 1872 a box of Dahlia roots were sent from Mexico to the Netherlands. Only one plant survived the trip, but produced spectacular red flowers with pointed petals. Nurserymen bred from this plant, which was named Dahlia juarezii with parents of Dahlias discovered earlier and these are the progenitors of all modern Dahlia hybrids. Ever since, plant breeders have been actively breeding Dahlias to produce thousands of cultivars, usually chosen for their stunning and brightly coloured flowers. Dahlia plants range in height from as low as 12" (30cm) to as tall as 6-8 feet (180-240cm). The flowers can be as small as 2" (5 cm) or up to a foot (30 cm) in diameter. The great variety results from Dahlias being octoploids (they have eight sets of homologous chromosomes, whereas most plants have only two).
Dahlias are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Angle Shades, Common Swift, Ghost Moth and Large Yellow Underwing.
The dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl. (Text Wikipedia.com) |
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